Bertolt Brecht

In the organizer's words:

House Postille Ballad Cycle
"Bertolt Brecht's Hauspostille can neither be understood as a pure contemporary witness to the class and party struggles of the years between the end of the war in 1918 and 1927, nor as a religious workbook comparable to the Bible. Until his death, Brecht was not satisfied with his collection of poems, changing, deleting individual poems or adding others. One could conclude from this that the Hauspostille was to be constantly adapted to the respective historical and personal situation. Brecht needed a moral system to formulate his social concerns. He was affected by the misery and contradictions of the time after the First World War. He was looking for a form, a style, a diction. He wanted to provoke and struck outrageous new notes. In doing so, the provocateur and great innovator inevitably arrived at one of the oldest sources of Western culture, the Bible." (Julia Trefzer)
Great literature presented and skillfully read by Kassel reciter Bernd P. R. Winter and Kassel actress Katharina Brehl. Well-known pieces by Brecht sung charmingly and full of esprit by Katharina Brehl and accompanied on the saxophone by musician Peter Zingrebe.