by Bertolt Brecht · Suhrkamp Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783518100493
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«Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder» is the play by Bertolt Brecht, published by Suhrkamp Verlag in paperback (128 pages, in German).
Anna Fierling, the shrewd vendor known as Mother Courage, travels the roads of the Thirty Years' War with her provisions cart to live off the conflict. Brecht shows how the logic of business turns war into a machine that devours virtues and the people who try to profit from it.
The play bears the subtitle «Eine Chronik aus dem Dreißigjährigen Krieg», belongs to number 49 of the Edition Suhrkamp collection, and this edition is from 1991.
For literature students and readers interested in Brecht's epic theatre; it is common reading in German schools.
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.
