1. marts 2017 - 31. december 2019

Bertolt Brechts Svendborg Poems

In the gloomy times
Will people also sing?
Indeed they will sing.
Of the gloomy times.
– Bertolt Brecht

Does peace give way to war just as surely as winter gives way to spring? A poet has fled from burning books, censorship and persecution, and through his poems he tries to put the world he loves and fears into words and images.

Bertolt Brecht is regarded as one of the world’s greatest dramatists, but he was also one of 20^th century literature’s greatest lyricists. His Svendborg Poems date from 1939 and he wrote them “under Danish thatch” in his house at Skovbostand, Svendborg. They present a terrifying picture of Europe as seen through the eyes of a political refugee.

The famous Danish songwriter and musician, Søren Huss, has written the music for the production and appears in it alongside Jens Gotthelf and the German actor Leif Eric Young. The production is directed by the young German director Petra-Leonie Pichler.

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