A Life of Galileo
A Life of Galileo
A Life of Galileo
“The Life of Galileo” (also known as “Life of Galileo” or “Galileo”) is a play by Bertolt Brecht with music by Hans Eisler. This play depicts the Renaissance scientist Galilei Galileo in a brutal struggle for freedom from authoritarian dogma. Unable to resist his appetite for scientific investigation, Galileo comes in conflict with the Inquisition and must publicly abjure his theory.
The drama was written between 1937-1939, and it premiered on 9th September 1943 at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Switzerland.
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1943
978-1-4725-0741-9
Drama
Methuen Publishing
Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) was a German playwright, novelist and poet, creator of the anti-Aristotelian Epic Theatre. His work escaped from the interests of the ruling elite, aimed to clarifying the social issues of the time.
Euger Bertholt Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) was born in Augsburg, Germany, on February 10, 1898. He started writing at a young age, publishing his first text in a newspaper in 1914.
He interrupted his medical studies in Munich to serve as a hospital nurse during the First World War (1914-1918).
In 1924, Brecht moved to Berlin, where he joined the Deutsches Theater, and was an assistant to directors Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator.
One of his best-known plays is “Mother Courage and Her Children” (1941), a parable of the role of the petty bourgeoisie in the midst of political storms, considered by some to be Brecht’s masterpiece.
In 1949, with the support of the East German government, Bertolt Brecht founded a theater company the “Berliner Ensemble”, which mainly staged his plays.