By Bertolt Brecht, Ludwig Rubiner, Paul Kornfeld, Yvan Goll, Georg Kaiser, Oskar Kokoschka, Reinhard Sorge, Carl Sternheim, Walter Hasenclever, Rolf Lauckner
Tremendous great assortment because it includes a few performs that aren't that simple to discover translated outdoors of anthologies similar to this. take pleasure in! makes one annoyed with the kingdom of publishing today!!! this article may merely be positioned out by means of a school press lovely much.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I-TH E THEORY
M a n in t h e C e n t e r , Ludwig Rubiner
Translated by means of Walter H. Sokel
E p i l o g u e t o t h e A c t o r , Paul Komfeld
Translated by way of Joseph Bernstein
Two S u p e r d r a m a s , Yvan Goll
Translated via Walter H. Sokel
M a n i n t h e T u n n e l , Georg Kaiser
Translated by way of Walter H. Sokel
PART II—THE PLAYS
M u r d e r e r t h e W o m e n ’s H o p e , Oskar Kokoschka
Translated by way of Michael Hamburger
T h e B e g g a r , Reinhard Sorge
Translated through Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel
T h e S t r o n g b o x , Carl Stemheim
Translated through Maurice Edwards and Valerie Reich
Job, Oskar Kokoschka
Translated via Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel
H u m a n i t y , Walter Hasenclever
Translated through Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel
A l okay i b i a d e s S a v e d , Georg Kaiser
Translated by way of Bayard Quincy Morgan
T h e I m m o r t a l O n e , Yvan Goll
Translated via Walter H. and Jacqueline Sokel
C r y in t h e S t r e e t , Rolf Lauckner
Translated through Maurice Edwards and Valerie Reich
B a a l , Bertolt Brecht
Translated through Eric Bentley and Martin Esslin
Bibliographical Note
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A strong healthy boy was bom! v o i c e s . Bravo! Bravo! Constructive boy! Constructive boy! t h ir d r e a d e r . New successful experiments with EhrlichHata? • v o ic e s . ° Ehrlich, the famous German bacteriologist, together with his Japanese assistant, Hata, discovered the chemical compound Salvarsan for the treatment of syphilis in 1910, one year before Sorge’s play was written. THE FIRST ACT 29 Ah! Bravo I HeavenlyI Great applause, clapping of hands. t h e t h r e e c r i t i c s enter from the left.
Sokel I know some things which I am no longer ready to discuss. I know that life can have only a moral purpose: Intensity, the roaming fire of intensity, the burstings, splittings, explosions of intensity. Intensity overshooting its mark, intensity killing, intensity begetting the unforgettables in a single—everlasting —second. I know the cracking of the earths crust; I know dust flying out and scattering; I know ancient layers of filth cracking in two. The fiery hissing of spirit bubbles out of these.
T h e m a n , astonished; his procession halts. Am I real? What did the shadows say? Raising his face to her. Did you look at me, did I look at you? w o m a n , filled with fear and longing. Who is the pallid man? Hold him back. f i r s t g i r l , with a piercing scream, runs back. Do you let him in? It is he who strangles my little sister praying in the temple. f i r s t m a n to the girl. We saw him stride through the fire, his feet unharmed. s e c o n d m a n . He tortured animals to death, killed neighing mares by the pressure of his thighs.