by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518100011
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«Leben des Galilei» is the play by Bertolt Brecht published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback, with 161 pages, in German.
Bertolt Brecht wrote «Leben des Galilei» in 1938/39 in Danish exile: the drama follows Galileo Galilei and his conflict with the Catholic Church over his astronomical discoveries, and addresses the social responsibility of the scientist, freedom of thought, the tension between science and religion, and the link between truth, power and ethics.
The German edition of «Leben des Galilei» is number 1 in the Edition Suhrkamp collection.
A reference work of 20th-century theatre, frequently used as school reading and of interest to students of literature and theatre.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
