The Threepenny Opera

Bertolt Brecht(1898–1956) was one of the most influential playwrights of the twentieth century. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, he fled Germany in 1933 when Hitler came to power. Returning to Germany after the war, he founded the Berliner Ensemble and continued to work on plays and films. Nadine Gordimeris the author of more than twelve novels as well as collections of stories and essays. She has received many awards, including the Booker Prize (for The Conservationistin 1974) and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991. Norman Roessleris editor of Communications, the performance journal of the International Brecht Society, and is a lecturer at Temple University in Philadelphia. John Willett(1917–2002) is a scholar and translator of several works by Bertolt Brecht into English. Ralph Manheim(1907–1992) is a translator of works by Bertolt Brecht, Hermann Hesse, Günter Grass, and many others.Brecht, Bertolt is the author of 'The Threepenny Opera', published 2007 under ISBN 9780143105169 and ISBN 0143105167.