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Brecht’s Beginnings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 September 2022

Reinhold Grimm
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Almost every study (for example, Fassmann, Haas, Dort, Weideli) which has made use of the available material* —usually either too intensively or too superficially—says that Brecht first appeared in print, with both poetry and prose, during August, 1914, in a daily newspaper in his native city, the Augsburger Neuesten Nachrichten. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (which is his real name) or Bert(h)old Eugen as he signed his material at that time, was 16 years old, attended the Augsburg Realgymnasium, the “Blue Cap,” and there studied Latin with enthusiasm, French with distaste, and all other things with unmistakable indifference. He does not seem to have been a frequent source of pleasure to his teachers.

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TDR (1967) , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Fall 1967 , pp. 22 - 35
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Copyright © The Drama Review 1967

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References for all works referred to are listed alphabetically by author in the bibliography at the end of this article. — Ed.

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