set gDates = [[], [0, "The Times, Sep 25, 1970", 0, "Times Literary Supplement, Sep 17, 1976", "The Times, June 10, 1976"], [0, 0, 0, " ", "The Times, Dec 12, 1968"]]
set gName = getat(["Brecht"],1)
@[]#BRECHT'S APPRENTICESHIP##THE GRACEFUL CLAW#GANGSTER POET@[]####BRECHT'S LIVING HERITAGE
In the Seventies, pop star David Bowie starred in Brecht's early play Baal on BBC television#The Threepenny Opera, Brecht's great collaboration with Kurt Weill, was based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, a satire on corruption in eighteenth century England#"Life is short and so is money." from The Threepenny Opera#In America during the war, Brecht wrote the script for Fritz Lang's film Hangmen Also Die#Brecht was a great sufferer from 'director's syndrome'. He had affairs with almost all his leading ladies#"War is like love. It always finds a way." from Mother Courage#Although seen in the west as a hard-line communist, Brecht's political beliefs were more ambiguous. He refused East German citizenship and condemned the repression of the workers' uprising in East Berlin in 1953
