Tag Archives: helene weigel

ballad of a thin man with stogie

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Dave

You, the owners of property are the truly brutish ones, runs the line of ironic implication; we slaves have remained human. Caught between what he expected and what he actually felt, the cultivated German spectator found hmself animated by chronic … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Bob Dylan, carl a. rossi, Donald Kuspit, Hannah Arendt, helene weigel, Jonathan Rosenbaum, lotte lenya, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, suze rotolo, The Frankfurt School, Walter Benjamin, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

brecht: cleaning out the stale slag of feeling

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Dave

The why of Bertolt Brecht’s popularity in America has always been a bit complicated. One way or another, the United States held a personal fascination for Brecht, and his attitude towards it developed through two distinct phases. As a young … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, boyd tomkin, Charlie Chaplin, christopher caudwell, deidra gwyther, don coker art, erwin piscator, George Grosz, helene weigel, john doyle director, martin esslin, martin esslin brecht, pacifism, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

life is a silent scream

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Dave

Ingrid Pitt. For some the horror was never over. Torn between building a life while repressing the horrors experienced. As a child sent to the Stutthof Concentration camp. How can one survive? The only thing that makes sense are the … Continue reading →