There have been many anti-war plays over the years, but none so well-regarded as Bertolt Brecht’s classic Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder). Brecht wrote it in 1939, but kept tinkering with it right up until his death in 1956. Its themes of exploitation, forced migration, and the futility and foolishness …
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Somewhere in Berlin
The East German film studio, DEFA, was founded in May 1946. During the first few years in post-war Germany, it was literally the only game in town. While the Office of Military Government, United States (OMGUS) in the west dragged its feet on film production (mostly at the behest of Hollywood), the east got the …
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