Wovon lebt der mensch bertolt brecht biography

Although they’ve been attributed to him, there is no evidence that the German playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote the following words (in German or English):

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events. He doesn’t know [that] the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics. The imbecile doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.

On the other hand, he did write the words below (in German). They’re from the Threepenny Opera‘s “Second Threepenny Finale”, also known as “Wovon lebt der Mensch” or “What Keeps Mankind Alive”:

You gentlemen who think you have a mission
to purge us of the seven deadly sins,
should first sort out the basic food position,
then start your preaching! That’s where it begins.
You lot who preach restr

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What Keeps Mankind Alive?

What Keeps Mankind Alive?

The text –Ralph Manheimand John Willett‘s translation, from Bertolt Brecht‘s original German, of the second finale of Brecht-Weill’s classic “Threepenny Opera” (Die Dreigroschenoper) (1928):

Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) & Kurt Weill (1900-1950)

“You gentlemen who think you have a mission/To purge us of the seven deadly sins/Should first sort out the basic food position/Then start your preaching, that’s where it begins/ You lot, who preach restraint and watch your waist as well/Should learn, for once, the way the world is run/However much you twist, or whatever lies that you tell/Food is the first thing, morals follow on/ So first make sure that those who are now starving/get proper helpings, when we all start carving/ What keeps mankind alive?/ What keeps mankind alive? The fact that millions are daily tortured, stifled, punished, silenced and oppressed/ Mankind can keep alive thanks to its brilliance/ in keeping its humanity repressed/And for once you must try not to shirk the facts/ Mankind is kept alive/by bestial acts!”

[Ihr Herrn, die ihr uns lehrt, wie man brav leben/Und Sünd und Missetat vermeiden kann/Zuerst müßt ihr uns was zu fressen geben/

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The 11th Cosmopolitan İstanbul Period is curated by picture curator aggregative What, Attempt & Choose Whom (WHW), which has been operative from say publicly city confiscate Zagreb, Hrvatska, since 1999. WHW consists of quatern female curators: Ivet Ćurlin, Ana Dević, Nataša Ilić and Sabina Sabolović.

Venues:

Antrepo No.3
Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi
Liman İşletmeleri Sahası
Tophane

Feriköy Greek School
Abide-i Hürriyet Caddesi No.5
Şişli

Tütün Deposu (Tobacco Warehouse)
Lüleci Hendek Caddesi
Koltukçular Çıkmazı No.1
Tophane

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Organizer:

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