Important theater productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 35 Pfennig

Significant theatrical productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes three special postage stamps with illustrations from major theatrical productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff. Important theatrical productions in the German Democratic Republic Brecht, Felsenstein and Langhoff are among the personalities who have in many ways revolutionized German theater. They are three of the "first hour" and have dedicated their artistic work to the political and cultural renewal of life in Germany since 1945. At various sites they have in their work as a theater director, playwright, director and actor the socialist theater in the German Democratic Republic Not least, with numerous guest appearances by their ensembles around the world, they have given the theater of the GDR international recognition 35-pfennig value: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) The almost proverbial phrase "The wagon of Courage Rolls around the World "symbolizes the international reputation of Brecht as author and director Outstanding theater event after 1945 was the German premiere of the piece" Mother Courage and her Children ", co-edited by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel with the unforgotten Helene Weigel in the title role was not Zuf totally that Brecht after his return from exile staged a play should show the "The fact that the big stores in the wars are not made by the little people. That war, which is a continuation of business by other means, makes human virtues deadly, even to their owners. That for the fight against the war no sacrifice is too great. "(Bertolt Brecht) For more than ten years and in more than four hundred performances, the Berlin Ensemble, with Helene Weigel as Courage, thrilled audiences around the world with this play against the war all other performances, which were made under Brecht's direction, are living witness and practical realization of his theatrical theory and its core, the epic theater.