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L A 1200-16112 ~+° "In 1935 when BRECHT's dramatic version of Gorky's iiother ws in its sixty-firat performance in Berlin, the police mounted the stage and arrested the actors. The play, translated by PAUL-PETERS, was staged by the Theater Union of New York in December 1935. After Hitler's rise to power, SRECHT ms expelled from the Third Keioh and has since lived in France, Norway, the Soviet " Union, and now the United States. i "In exile BERTOLT BRECHT has written a novel, ‘A Penny for the Poor,‘ f (1934)... .mercilessly exposing with mordant wit the faults and failures of the ad present age. For the theater he has created the vitriolic anti-lazi satire, Round Heads, Peak Heads (1937), and an equally pungent sequence of plays on « life in the Third Reich.... The most significant of his dramas, hovever, is : “the one act Senora Carrars Rifles (1938), dealing with the Sranish ir. a3 "..+eHated by the Nazis, BRECHT was fortunate to escape with his life and arrive in this country safely at last in 1941.... Mother Courage, © an historical play of the fhirty Years Wer, has been tentatively announced for publication here." SOURCE This source furnished further information concerning BRECHT from the book entitled, "Germany: A Self Portrait," published in 1944 by the Oxford D University Press, London, New York, Toronto. This book states that BRECHT ‘3 was born,as proviously indicated, of a lower middle class family. He was : Grafted into the German aray at the age of 17 and served through World Fer I as a medical orderly. The phenomenal success of his "Ballad of the Dead Soldier, which was based on his experiences in Army hospitals, decided him on a writing career. He became the most important playwright of the younger generation. $ He was invited to join the staff of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin by the } director, MAX REINHAHDT. Later, seeking more freedom for experiments, he f supervised his own productions at the Schiffbauerdam Theater, collaborating with the director, ERNIMPISCATOR, and the composer, angen. The most notable production of this trio was an adaptation of J GAY's “The Beggar's Opera," which in BRECHT's modern version became an acid satire on conditions in Weimar, Germany. BRECHT escaped from Germany when Hitler came to power and lived in exile in France, Denmark, Hormy, and Soviet Russia before coming to the United States. He has written much in exile, and every line is directed against the rulers of present day Germany. His most recent book is a poetic play, "The Trial of Lucullus." His poem,: "The Balled of the Germar Soldier's Bride," has been beamed to Germany by the British Broadcasting Corporation.