The Life and Times of Bertolt Brecht, theatre performance

A collective work by Eva Mahkovic, Ula Talija Pollak and director Matjaž Berger, based on the accounts of Brecht’s biographers, this performance attempts to reconstruct the life of the materialist thinker, artist and originator of the concept of the alienation effect through a series of profound thoughts, poems, philosophical positions and archival footage.

The reconstruction leads us along a vertical axis into the heart of the great totalitarian regimes – Nazism and Stalinism, Fordism and McCarthyism, the ideologies of domination and hegemony – where Brecht remains, to the very end, a consistent avant-garde artist of the left.

It is also the story of the members of Brecht’s circle (Walter Benjamin, Ruth Berlau, Margarete Steffin, Hanns Eisler, Kurt Weill, Karl Korsch, Theodor W. Adorno…) and their courageous stance in a century of terror.

Cast: Gregor Čušin, Svit Stefanija, Gaja Filač, Barbara Ribnikar, Mojka Končar, Tina Resman, Jana Menger, Mario Dragojević, Gregor Podričnik, Timotej Novaković, Gregor Luštek.