Film: Love in a Time of Exile and War
In July 2014 Writing Brecht collaborated with Modern Poetry in Translation and Poetry International to stage readings of love poems and letters by Brecht and others.
The project generates various forms of events, for practitioners as well as academic audiences, the interested public, or schools. We record and document some of the events so a wide audience can take part. Click on the links below to access our recordings (with apologies for the links that, with the passing of time, become defunct.)
In July 2014 Writing Brecht collaborated with Modern Poetry in Translation and Poetry International to stage readings of love poems and letters by Brecht and others.
The programme ‘Songs of Exile and War’ was designed to give an introduction to Brecht’s work as a poet and song-writer, and to provide a sketch of his life in turbulent times in anti-Nazi exile in Europe and America.
In January 2013 six actors, a director and an editor of the new English edition of Der Messingkauf came together to put Brecht's