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Bertolt Brecht — Part 3

90 pages · May 08, 2026 · Document date: Oct 20, 1947 · Broad topic: Public Figures · Topic: Bertolt Brecht · 90 pages OCR'd
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QO ® LA 100-18112 By teletype aint hes oe a_i _.3 at. VeL,euyyS Udveu Cvaaoer ab 1Sh7, Hew Tors office advised Way . BRECHT had 1 left. New York: ct bound for Paris, France, on October 32, 19h7, - wie AIR FRAICE ATRLINGS and that a customs stop had been placed by Esw York - City for the subject's return. ~ ain aa Source B on November 5, 1947, furnished the follo:vin: inforaation relative to the subject: "The day before yesterday the writer BERTHOID “Ret appeared UGiGTsS Wise LORE Gi Un-dnerican activities De sescsa tae he never wrote communistic literature but wrote only against Hitler. In reality, BRSCOT has always acted ani written as a propazandist of Coammisn and Sovietism. In 1919 he wos editorialist of the 4note Fahne! {Red Flas) .in Augsburg. As a first reader of an well-knom Garman Publishing House “Apred kasken Verlag) I have follow-T'BRICiT's carroor fro that tine ns BRACHT was an unswering advocate of Soviet policy In Germany; hs rrote several outri, communistic plays; among then "Die iassnanne’ (‘The Amasns!) endX'Die _hsilige Johanna der Schlachthoote', 1932 Xtste Joan ‘Of. the at. =-té..— eh wl ace osu nier - _houses* de The latter poay is locate’ in ‘mrica and. RECHT tries to prove tho necessity of the domfall of capitelis: end toes wee enterprises In 1932, the Democratic (Pre-Hitlerian) Govarnmert of Hesse (Darmstadt) forbade the perforacnce of 'St. Joan of the sie ater houses' because of its couwnmistic tendency, One of the shorter plays of BRCHT (I forgot the ti tle) is written in praise of the seccct societies 4n all countries which work for Soviet ~ Russia, BowiLo SRiLuT was In Moscow several times; he was co-editor of the RussTan azine ‘Las Wort! (it appeared in Lioscow during the Wazi-Regina in German Tanzaaze)e I re of Bom ten Se eet merber aistinct to have + read i ah one or the issues a diatribs against America, I happen to be in contact with frients of BRiCIT am. therefore I know that he has not deviated a bit from the officiel Russian party line. Several weeks ago he said something like that: ho sn his like are now pare to |] thomselves off ‘as democrats’, As far as I know, BRECHT plans to travel to Europe very soon via Switecrland and IT am convinced that he will try to mve in the astern Zone of Gercany in order to work for his commnistic ideas, The above naaxd works of BRicHT are available in the library of Congress, Nobody tho reacs ther. will doubt that they are coommistic literature.” On November 20, 197, a copy of a document sent by RUTE S-RLAG to nop Garcm, a film producer whose offices are locoted at 1519 lorta Lins Palcss Averus, was furnished by a highly confidential source, From the coz:taxt of this document it was apparently true that GEIGER and BRECHT had ocen negotiating . for nonths relative to the Galileo film contract. BiRIAU was extresaly up 22% that the contract had not yet been signed because she stated that she did not have any money axl as a result was trying to sell her farndiure, ie” Sic BF AO We Ques fn So and emerything.* BERLAD went on to say that BAMCIT was writing to ace % tes . =, =
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