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That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany...
...joined the Composers Collective, the first left-wing, musical-political organization in the U. S., whose members included Bertolt Brecht, Hans Eisler, Earl Robinson, Elie Siegmeister and Aaron Copland. Having decided that "the world is divided into the murderers and the murdered," he wanted to show in his work which is which. His life paralleled his writing once too often: he was murdered...
...Bertolt Brecht and living with an East Berlin family. According to his father, young Huessy was "positively impressed" with the regime, but he also clung to his faith in the U.S. Shortly before his arrest, he wrote to his parents: "How can I explain to these people that even though I agree with all their criticism of the American system, the Viet Nam War and racism, that there is still something about America which gives it more potential than any system I know...
...such obscene language was rightly censored, and that in any case it was gratuitous in a political film. But for many European intellectuals "obscenity" is an essential part of an "intellectual guerrilla warfare" against the bourgeoisie. One of Le Gai Savoir's last images is a book cover reading Bertolt Brecht- from Rimbaud to Lenin, that is, from scatological to revolutionary. Attacks on bourgeois thought cannot limit themselves to "politics" narrowly defined; epater la bourgeoisie is a political slogan. The censorship of "obscenity" is thus a bourgeois device to restrict free thought. Everything could be discussed under a language that...
...Bertolt Brecht, in Jungle of Cities, assaults our faith in a rational system of motives and rewards. Jungle of Cities presents a challenge, a struggle, and a resolution-but no motivation, no rules, no explanations. It is what professional wrestling would be without the planned choreography and pay off. It is inexplicable in our terms; but the incongruities must be accepted...