Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brechts Dreigroschenbuch: Texte, Materialien, Dokumente.
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1960. Suhrkamp Hausbuch. First printing. 480 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.5", is bound in white cloth, with stamped black lettering to spine. Book shows light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Ownership sticker appears at top of front flyleaf. Pages are clean and without markings. Illustrated with b&w photographic plates at rear of volume.
Work covering various aspects of The Threepenny Opera by German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
"The “Dreigroschenbuch” is primarily of a documentary nature. It contains all texts that Brecht himself wrote in this context, published and unpublished, i.e. the opera, the film, the trial, the novel, notes on the opera, then works from the estate, essays on the music of the opera, the Threepenny Stage, a second, previously unknown statement on the accusation of plagiarism, then new versions and additional verses to the songs and finally the recording of a conversation between Brecht and Giorgio Strehler, the director of the famous Milan performance, about the possibilities of modern new productions of the opera. The German translation of "Beggar's Opera" by Hans Magnus Enzensberger enables a comparison with the original. What follows is a selection of the most important works and voices about the Threepenny Opera.""