Fear and Misery of the Third Reich

Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (The Chalk Cross; The Jewish Wife; The Spy; Release; The Sermon on the Mount; Job Creation; Consulting the People) (Furcht und Elend des III. Reiches)

    Alternative Title: The Private Life of the Master Race; 99%; Germany: A Tale of Horror

    Author: Bertolt Brecht (with Margarete Steffin)

    First Performance: 1938, Paris

    Published: 1945

    First English Translation: 1944

    Genre: 7 [of 27] linked one-act dramas; German prose and verse choruses

    Setting: Germany, 1933–8

    Cast: (3) 3m, 2f; (8) 1m, 1f; (9) 1m, 2f, child (m); (15) 2m, 1f; (22) 3m, 1f; (23) 1m, 2f; (27) 2m, 1f.

    (3) The Chalk Cross or The Chalk Mark (Das Kreidekreuz). In the kitchen of a gentleman's house, an SA Man flirts with the young...

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