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Cargando... The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink (2015)por Pamela Katz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book represents an attempt to examine how collaborative fire is captured in a bottle and then how it fizzles out as Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (foremost of the three women of the subtitle) had an almost delirious experience creating "The Three Penny Opera" but could never quite recreate the experience, which one is inclined to blame on the instrumental mentality towards other individuals that Brecht seemed to cultivate almost effortlessly. Apart from that one also has to be struck by how flat-footed the rise of the Nazi Party caught these men, as one might have thought that their affected cynicism towards German society would have left them more astute about real-life politics. ( ) This is not particularly well written - it is dense and repetitive but the subject matter is fascinating - not just the relationship between Brecht and Weill but the important women in their life. Hauptmann remains kind of cipher, unfortunately, but I did gain understanding of how Lenya and esp Weigel fit in to both men's careers. There are tons of cool facts though and very detailed descriptions of rehearsal processes and opening nights. The screenplay for the dress rehearsal of Threepenny Opera remains to be written - it would make a delicious movie. Also, a very timely read, the Weimar republic and all. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
The first book to tell the full story of Brecht and Weill's impulsive, combustible partnership, the compelling psychological drama of one of the most important creative collaborations of the past century. It is also the first book to give full credit where it is richly due to the three women--[actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elizabeth Hauptmann]--whose creative gifts contributed enormously to their masterworks. And it tells the thrilling and iconic story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic's most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed"--Amazon.com. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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