by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518188118
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«Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (185 pages, in German).
Set during the Thirty Years' War, it follows Anna Fierling, Mother Courage, a sutler who travels the fronts with her provisions cart. Brecht shows the protagonist caught between the pursuit of profit and the protection of her three children, and makes clear that the big business of war is not done by ordinary people.
Part of the Suhrkamp-BasisBibliothek collection (no. 11), in an edition with text and commentary.
Suitable for students of German literature who need an annotated edition for school or university reading.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
