#bertolt brecht

[iphigeniacomplex]

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Once Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) began in 1927 to develop a systematic interest in Marxist thought, he turned against what he considered the tragic legacy of Western theater as configured in Naturalist drama. Humanity cannot change natural laws and is doomed to conform to them: This false necessity was invoked by the Naturalists to generate Aristotleian pity for human fate, he argued. The tragic and the religious collaborated to produce mythologies that control the imagination. In his comments on Karl Korsch (Tom Kuhn & Steve Giles, eds.: Brecht on Art and Politics, 2003, 109-11), Brecht urged that revolutionaries must wrest the mythological hold on reality, showing that the tragic and the religious are historical phenomena whose necessity is escapable. “Brecht asserts that the audience can no longer experience the fate of Naturalist protagonists as tragic in a world where catastrophes can be explained without reference to religion or mythology. Indeed, Brecht takes the very notion of tragedy to be an ideology that must be resisted, because dilemmas which had once been perceived as inevitable and inescapable can, in fact, be resolved by adopting practical social and technical measures” (61).

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he'd be causing so much drama on tumblr if he was around today he'd do numbers on here

[kitapvesarkisevenbirisi]

“Mücadele eden yenilgiye uğrayabilir;

Ancak mücadele etmeyen,zaten yenilmiştir.”

[apoemaday]

Motto

by Bertolt Brecht tr. John Willett

In the dark times, will there also be singing? Yes, there will be singing About the dark times.

[sivavakkiyar]

Bertolt Brecht, Stories Of Mr Keuner

[leonardcohenofficial]

today's recommended reading: "writing the truth: five difficulties" by bertolt brecht, which you can access a pdf of here

[akindplace]

goodreads

[eastofedean]

"This, I feel, is the advantage to creating art at this point in time: When we realize that we are temporary, we are facing our self-destruction, we are realizing our fate and we must confront it. Art is the only sensible primal response to an outlook of possible destruction."

[bertolt brecht || unkown || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || all things end, hozier || andrew garfield in an interview for 'the believer' || free, florence + the machines || give yourself permission to be creative, ethan hawke || dead poets society (1989), dir. peter weir || road to hell (reprise) hadestown || keith haring]

[davidhudson]

Bertolt Brecht, February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956.

[victusinveritas]

Bertolt Brecht

In the dark times, will there also be memes?

Yes, there will be memes. About the dark times.

[3bagshotrow]

the silmarillion, "of beren and lúthien," j.r.r. tolkien // hadestown, "come home with me (reprise)," anaïs mitchell // to noise making (sing), hozier // the return of the king, j.r.r. tolkien // hadestown, "doubt comes in," anaïs mitchell // the svenborg poems, bertolt brecht // the silmarillion, "of the return of the noldor," j.r.r. tolkien

[brechtian]

disco elysium / saint Joan of the stockyards

[intotheclash]

Il peggior analfabeta è l’analfabeta politico. Egli non ascolta, non parla né partecipa agli avvenimenti politici. Non sa che il costo della vita, il prezzo dei fagioli, del pesce, della farina, dell’ affitto, delle scarpe e delle medicine dipendono dalle decisioni politiche. Un analfabeta politico è tanto animale Che si inorgoglisce e gonfia il petto Nel dire che odia la politica. Non sa l’imbecille che Dalla sua ignoranza politica proviene la prostituta, il minore abbandonato, il rapinatore ed il peggiore di tutti i banditi, che è il politico disonesto, ingannatore e corrotto, leccapiedi delle imprese nazionali e multinazionali. Bertolt Brecht - L'analfabeta politico

[schibborasso]

Bertold Brecht oil on canvas, by Rudolf Schlichter, 1921

[sivavakkiyar]

Bertolt Brecht, Questions from a Worker Who Reads

[yorgunherakles]

hiçbir şey bilmediğini bilmen için çok şey öğrenmen gerekir.

oscar wilde - dorian gray'in portresi

[garadinervi]

Karl-Heinz Drescher (design) – Hans-Rudolf Lutz (typography), Bertold Brecht: 'Lob des Revolutionärs', Berliner Ensemble, Berlin, 1996 [Image source: Handsetzerei Ernst Gloor, Zürich] [Museum für Gestaltung Zürich]