Verisiä pieruja ilmaiseksi
The Bloody Question
When people asked Brecht:
“Are poems written even in bad times?”
Brecht replied: “Of course,
then we write about bad times.”
If folk asked me:
“Does a person write about bad times?”
I could not answer:
“Yes, people write about them.”
Modern trends do not allow this.
Now you must smile,
even when you fart
the bloody farts,
and if someone asks
Are you all right?
You should reply:
“Red is a beautiful color.”
© Yelling Rosa
2023-05-02
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Bertolt Brecht
Brecht in 1954
Born
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
10 February 1898
Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
14 August 1956 (aged 58)
East Berlin, East Germany
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht,[a] was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call “dialectical theatre”) and the Verfremdungseffekt.
