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1923 Eduard II
1914 Archduke
Ferdinand assassinated
1917 Germany uses
unrestricted submarine
warfare
1918 WWI ends
1919 Treaty of
Versailles
1927 Schweyk;
Mahagonny
1928 The
Threepenny Opera
1929 Happy End
1930 Mahagonny
(final version); first
two volumes of his
essays; The Measures
Taken
1931 Kuhle Wampe
(film)
1932 The Mother
1941
1941
Mother
German
Courage
troops
produced
1929
U.S.
stock
invade
inSoviet
Zurich;Union
flees
market
crashto Moscow and
from
Sweden
1952
Berliner
Ensemble
1930
Nazis
become
then
to
San
Pedro,
tours
Poland;
Brecht
second largest
political
California;
joins German
produces
The
Rifles
of Mrs.
party
in
Germany
exile community in Los
Carrar
with
the
Berliner
1943
Hangmen
Also
Angeles
and
sells
filmisscripts
1943
Germany
Ensemble;
worker
rebellion
to make
Diea(film
living
bombed
byscript)
the U.S. and
in
East
Berlin;
Brecht
1943England;
The Good
ItalyPerson of
solidarity
with the
declares
1932
and
open
street
surrenders
1944
Galileo
The
Caucasian
Sezuan
1953
Korean
war
regime
fighting
between
produced
Chalk
in
Circle
Zurich;Paris
son is
1944
D-Day;
1954
considerable
endsfighting
Communists
and
Nazis;
Frank
killed
inof the
liberated;
Battle
propaganda
work
for
1954
the
1954
Berliner
KGB
FDR
elected
U.S.
Russia
Bulge
the
German
established
is given
the of
President
Ensemble
1944
birth
and death
1945
Berlin
is bombed
Democratic
Republic
am
Theater
1933
the
Hitler
becomes
Brecht
Ruth
Berlaus
by and
U.S.;
Vienna falls
Schiffbauerdamm;
Brecht
Chancellor
of
Germany;
son to Soviet troops;
Adolf
produces
The
Caucasian
burning
of
the
1945
The
Fear
and
Misery
Hitler commits suicide;
Chalk
Circle;first
Brechts
ofReichstag;
the
Germany
Third Reich
surrenders;
produced
Mother
Couragecamps
wins first
concentration
in New
atomic
York;bombs
works dropped
with
prize
at Nazis
the Festival
of Paris;
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boycott
Ferdinand
on Japan;
Reyher
Nuremberg
on an
Brecht
isshops
awarded
the
Stalin
Jewish
andof
burn
American
trials
begin
version
Galileo
Peace
Prize
books; Nazi party
1955
travels
to Moscow to
declared
Germanys
1946
works
with Charles
accept
Stalin Peace
Prize;
only political
Laughton
on anpart
English
Brechts
production
of The
version
1934 of
Hitler
becomes
Galileo;
Berlau
Caucasian
Circle wins
Fuhrer
of Chalk
Germany
put
in a mental
hospital in
a
prize
at
the
Festival
New
1935
German
Jews of
York
and later
Paris
1948ofinto
rights
Days
of the
stripped
discharged
Brechts
1956 Commune;
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begin for
care
a Berlin production of
1947 Oragnum
Galileo produced in
Galileo;
Brecht
dies August
and
1948
Berlin
L.A.
New
York;Blockade
Brecht
14th
called
1936
German
Gestapo
begins
to testify before
placed
above
HUAC;
flies
backthe
to law
Europe
with
begins
1937
1949
his
NATO
ratified;
allofStalin
texts
on
purge
RedWest
Army
microfilm
Eastofand
soon
afterGermany
generals
testifying
officially split
1948 produces Antigone
with
1938
Kristallnacht
Helene
Weigel as the
lead in Chur, Switzerland;
1950
Joe McCarthy
visits
East Berlin
Communist
1949begins
produces
Mother
witch-hunt;
Korean
war
Courage
1939
Germany
in East Berlin with
invades
Poland;
England
Helene
Weigel
as the
lead;
& France declare
war on
establishes
the Berliner
Germany;with
beginning
of
Ensemble
no home
theater and Helene Weigel
as artistic director
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Fuegi, John. The Essential Brecht. Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls,
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Hayman, Ronald. Brecht: A Biography. New York: Oxford UP, 1983.
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