Reader Ad Slot
Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Bertolt Brecht — Part 4
Page 74
74 / 94
ge e€
at that tine.
act. - - wim 1935 Brecht reportedly vas a co-editor of a mazasine entitled $
- + “Dag Fort", which was published in Russia by « group of political refugees 2
Poy Germany whose nusbers included many Communist deputies ani writers. -\
- Mon Feuchtwanger and Willi Bredel, reported Communists, vere co-editors "5
with Brecht. tn oF
It is reported that in 1935 Brecht's play "Die Mutter" was -
t Presented in New York. This play appears in the book ertitied "Brecht,
ecm Gessznelte Werks, Yol. 2°. It is reported that the play contains naterial
+. favoring Commniss, specifically, songs entitled "Praise of Communisse” ani
aa *Preise of the Revolutionary*, ‘The New York Daily Worker for Hoverber 22, 1935,
stated that in regard to the play that "It was Brecht's plan to have a spectacle
present the dramatic story of the present day mass struggle vhich must culminate
* ia the victory of the proletariat”. In 1936 Bert Brecht reportedly was in
Loe Angeles and was ons of a group that formed the German-Communist Modern
-" Masic Group under the direction of Professor Eli Jacobson, Russian sywpathixser.
_ : Various 1937 issues of “International Literature published by
* State Literary-irt Publishing House, Moscov, Russia carried articles by Brecht.
‘ Iswus Fo. 5 for May, 1937, contained an article that Brecht and Sergei
Tretyakov wrote. . "Internation Literature’ reportedly was published by the
sane group of German political refugees that published the segasine "Das Wort".
April § an@ 11, 1939, feeues of the "Abendpost® advertise "Dee
Vort" and reflected that it was still edited by Brecht, Feuchtvanger, and
Willi Bredel.
mo In 1939 a collection of Brecht's poems was published under the
+" title Sévendborger Gedichte’, by the Nollik Publishing House, Londoa, England.
y~ ° It was reported that these poems were found to advocate overthrow of capitalise,
Ye. establishment ef a Commuist state, and use of sabotage by labor to attain ites
: D he eS :
“=: *, Aleo in 1939 £t wee alleged that Bert Brecht received the sum .
ef $00.00 per month from July of that year to Joly, 1940, from a fund solicited
dy Frits lang, movie director, reportedly a Communist Party syxpathiser end «
close friend of Otto Kats, Russian sympathizer, Xats was said to be aware of
Tang's activities ts furaishing funds to Breoht. 7
aa Bert Brecht was a contributor to the Magazine "Freies Deutschland”,
"+ @fficial pablication of the Free German Comittee, Mexico, D.F. Activities
' of the Free German Committee were reportedly carried on by Otto Kats anf other
well knows Communists or persons of Commaist inclinations. It is alleged
thas the aim of the Free German Committee was the ostablichsent of poster 4
‘orm ef government fevoradle te Soviet Russia. 3
" “~*"* fam associated prese photogregh published March 19, 1942, é .
- Bert ond lion Foachwanger studying a Neaifesto vhich they wrote together
Community corrections
No user corrections yet.
Comments
No comments on this document yet.
Bottom Reader Ad Slot
Bottom Reader Ad Slot placeholder
If you would like to support SpookStack without paying out of pocket, please consider allowing advertising cookies. It helps cover hosting costs and keeps the archive free to browse. You can change this choice at any time.
Continue Exploring
Agency Collection
Explore This Archive Cluster
Broad Topic Hub
Topic Hub
federal bureau
Related subtopics
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic
Subtopic