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Bertolt Brecht's poems to 'one of his great loves' come to fervent life by Sasha Dugdale

Passionate love poems exchanged with the actor Margarete Steffin are to be read live in translation for the first timeIn 1931 German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht met a young actor, a woman called Margarete Steffin, with whom he was to become both intimately and intellectually involved. They met at a play rehearsal and she subsequently acted in Brecht's The Mother, then became a collaborator in his writing. Stef…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AM on July 10, 2014

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