Brecht had great difficulties in this country owing to his theatrical philosophy and political views. One success, however, was his production of "The Life of Galileo" "Leben des Galilei" on which he was assisted by the well-known British actor Charles Laughton. Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht journals. Translated by Hugh Rorrison. New York : Routledge, Tomorrow you'll be heading home ed. Brecht by no means chose this place of exile by chance. He wanted to be close to Germany so that he could return immediately if the political climate changed.
Brecht constantly fought against the use of the term, which implies a freedom of choice that expellees were not given. Their future becomes that of your own, and the present defiantly estranged. Before Brecht fled Germany in , he was one of the best-known playwrights in Germany. In he celebrated the premiere of In the Jungle of Cities in Munich — but the second performance was interrupted by the Nazis and dropped shortly after. By the time the premiere of The Threepenny Opera took place, Brecht had also become well-known outside Germany.
Brecht was in hospital during the Reichstag fire on 27 February In the mids, Brecht encountered Marxism and began to think about how its ideas might affect the way he made theatre. The Nazis under Hitler became the largest party in the German parliament in and entrenched their power in Brecht, a prominent critic of the Nazis, went into exile at this time, and spent the years from in various European countries, moving from state to state as the Nazis continued to expand their power base.
Brecht left Europe in and spent the rest of his exile in the United States of America.
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