Conservatory Hour

Holger Teschke, Director, Playwright, Poet, and former Dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble. Presenting a lecture on "Brecht at Sea and in America":

In the Summer of 1941 the exiled German playwright Bertolt Brecht crossed the Pacific from Vladivostok in the Soviet Union to San Pedro, California aboard the Swedish freighter the "Annie Johnson." In this lecture, Teschke describes the journey by sea that Brecht and his small entourage took through, and to, the Pacific "paradise" Brecht had often imagined and figured in his writing, and looks at the ways Brecht's experience in the United States and the "dream factory" of Hollywood sharpened and shaped his understanding of social relations and class in modern society.

In the Chosky, Monday April 13 5:00-6:30pm

Teschke 21

Publish at Scribd or explore others: culture