Brecht : as they knew him / Hubert Witt, editor. ; John Peet, translator.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-243).

Bertolt Brecht presented to the British / By Lion Feuchtwanger -- Recollections of Brecht in 1919 in Augsburg / By Hans Otto Munsterer - Brecht directs / By Arnolt Bronnen -- Brett Brecht the dramatist / By Herbert Jhering -- Recollections of Brecht as a young man / By Bernard Reich -- On what are toy working? A talk with Bert Brecht / By Bernard Guillemin -- Notes on Brecht's work in 1926 / By Elisabeth Hauptmann -- Threepenny Opera / By Lotte Lenya-Weill -- From the Brecht commentary / By Walter Benjamin -- Bert Brecht / By Sergei Tretyakov -- Brecht, robbed of citizenship / By Berthold Viertzel -- Brecht Summary / By Arnold Zweig -- My first collaboration with Brecht / By Ruth Berlau -- Bertolt Brecht and music / By Hanns Eisler -- On Bertolt Brecht / By Wieland Herzfelde -- Diary, 1948 / By Max Frisch -- Zurich Diary / By Gunther Weisenborn Brecht's stage style -- By Max Schroeder -- Brecht from 1918 to 1950 / By Paul Rilla -- Brecht's work with actors / By Angelika Hurwicz -- Bertolt Brecht the director / By Hubert Witt -- How 'Lucullus came about / By Paul Dessau -- Discovering an aesthetic category / By Manfred Werkweth -- Stage technicians relate by various authors [see text] -- Journeyman years with Brecht / By Erwin Strittmatter -- In memory of my friend / By Casper Neher -- Bb / By Vladimir Pozner Brecht / By Anna Seghers -- Summer Lament / By Johannes R. Becher -- Memories of Bertolt Brecht / By Gunter Kunert -- Bertolt Brecht / By Konstantin Brecht -- "Since then the world has hope" / By Kathe Rulke-Weiler -- He will remain / By Ernst Schumacher -- Brecht 1973 / By Werner Mittenzwei --

"Bertolt Brecht as seen by Lion Feuchtwranger, Herbert Jhering, Lotte Lenya, Caspar Neher, Walter benjamin, Hans Eisler, Paul Dessau, Max Frisch, Erwin Strittmatter, Walter Mittenzwei, Vladimir Pozner, and some twenty-five others who knew and worked with him: directors, actors, dramatists, musicians and writers, friends and colleagues all contribute to these recollections of Brecht. . . ' A man who had not seen Herr K. for a long time related with the words: 'You haven't changed at all.' 'Oh!', said Herr K., and paled. These few lines of Brecht's taken from the 'Stories of Herr Kemer' sum up his conviction that change was the essence of growth and necessary to man's improvement. Brecht was also of the opinion that 'without outside help, only with the sparse material which an individual can carry in his arms', it was possible to erect a small hut, but never great and lasting buildings. These two principles, change and collaboration, were essential to Brecht's work as a director, dramatist, innovator and man of the theatre, poet and thinker. These recollections give a portrait of Bertolt Brecht, the man of genius who changed the poetic face of Germany." -- from the book jacket

Translation from German into English.