https://youtu.be/Ec0clERjQ5A Lotte Lenya singing "Seeräuber Jenny" in the original 1931 film Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) In a 1974 interview, Arendt said that one of her main goals in writing Eichmann in Jerusalem was "to destroy the legend of the greatness of evil, of the demonic force, to take away from people the admiration they … Continue reading One may say that tragedy deals with the sufferings of mankind in a less serious way than comedy
I considered it a necessity to work with people who, just like me, saw the revolutionary movement as the driving force, the engine of their creation. To me, the whole idea behind the proletarian theater revolved around the building of a community that would be human and artistic, but also political. (Erwin Piscator, The Political Theater)
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