Bertolt Brecht

Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben

Joachim Lang

Bertolt Brecht, Peter Fitz

Theater of War

John W. Walter

Meryl Streep, Tony Kushner

A behind-the-scenes look at The Public Theater's production of Bertolt Brecht's "Mother Courage" that examines the playwright's life and ideas.

Mann ist Mann

Carl Koch, Bertolt Brecht

Theo Lingen, Peter Lorre

About a civilian who is press-ganged into a machine-gunner's squadron and transformed into the perfect soldier.

Mysterien eines Frisiersalons

Bertolt Brecht, Erich Engel

Blandine Ebinger, Karl Valentin

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser’s Shop describes the absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.

Bertolt Brecht - Bild und Modell

Sebastian Eschenbach, Peter Voigt

Bertolt Brecht

Here meet personal memory, working knowledge, research interests and anecdotes together to vivid memory about the most important German dramatist of the 20th century. When the director Peter Voigt, former assistant director of Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble in 2004, finds a wallet with pictures and captions from the American exile, he pursued this track and discovered that Brecht has always worked with photography and film. Peter Voigt puts together an exciting collage of this film and photo material. A conversation with Erdmut Wizisla, the head of Bertolt Brecht Archives, moderated by Harald Müller, forms the dramatic bond of the film.

Brecht

Heinrich Breloer

Burghart Klaußner, Tom Schilling

Documentary about Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble.

Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt

Wolfgang Bergmann

Carola Neher, Georg Becker

"Cause of Death Unknown" - Carola Neher (1900-1942) actress, singer and feminist. Brecht wrote the role Polly Peachum for her. She practiced boxing with Marlene Dietrich. After Hitler seized power, thousands of German communists and anti-fascists fled to the Soviet Union, the "fatherland of the working people". The tragedy of German communism is that the vast majority of them perished or were lost during Stalin's "cleansing". Carola Neher is one of the fate figures of that time. In the 20s, she belonged to the narrow circle of Brecht actresses. The film accompanies her son Georg Becker in search of his mother's traces in the sinking Soviet Union.