Monday, October 12, 2015 - 18:00 to Sunday, July 13, 2025 - 14:10
The Studio at The Rep
An event from the Writing Brecht team at Birmingham Literature Festival
Fleeing from Hitler, Margarete Steffin, Brecht’s lover, collaborator and close comrade, was in exile with Brecht and his family in Denmark, Sweden, Finland and the Soviet Union. Too ill to continue with them to safety in the USA, Steffin died of tuberculosis in a Moscow clinic on 4 June 1941, aged only 33.
This event features the love poems of Bertolt Brecht and Margarete Steffin in new translations by the poet and translator David Constantine. The poems, together with readings of diaries, letters and prose, will be performed by actors Anna Procter and Mathew Wernham and accompanied by live music written and performed by Dominic Muldowney.