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. Yeah. "Punk" because out of the ordinary, unusual, certainly original. "Cabaret" because it is not easy music, but theater of body, words and forms. But why "Brechtian"? What binds our Dresden Dolls at the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht?
Brecht was born in Augsburg (Bavaria) in 1898, and soon discovered his passion for literature and theater, initially influenced by expressionist some 'wherever I put the roots in German culture. However there is now a spokesman for trend antithetical to Expressionism theorising a type of theatrical performance in which the goal is not to empathize with the protagonists, but cut off from each other, to take a reflective and critical attitude. This theater, Brecht called "epic" for its educational, is strongly influenced by the Marxist thesis that Brecht embraces a young age, and covers topics such as social exclusion and poverty, surely inspired by the harsh conditions that raged in Germany early 900.
But what characterizes the work as "The Threepenny Opera" (1928), "Mother Courage" (1941) and "Life of Galileo" (1943) is particularly the atmosphere in which they are immersed characters and stories, illustrated more than telling, accompanied by music (often composed by famous composer Kurt Weill) and folk songs.
It is this aesthetic universe in which the thieves are respectable examples of honesty, moral authority and a symbol of corruption to make it interesting Brechtian theater, now in the 30s if not prophetic, and certainly fascinating to this day.
In 1933, when the Nazis came to power, Brecht was forced to leave Germany for his political views, settling first in several European countries and the United States then. Only in 1949 could return to Germany where he founded the theater in East Berlin “Berline Ensemble”: qui potrà, fino al 1956 (anno della sua morte), portare avanti la sua ricerca teatrale.
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