Die Lösung

The solution is a poem by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is part of the collection Buckower elegies.

Background

On June 17, 1953, in the GDR workers' protests that had initially directed against standard increases, violently suppressed, with the participation of Soviet troops. Brecht expressed in a short, consisting of three sets letter to Walter Ulbricht its attachment to the SED. When you print the letter in the New Germany from June 21, 1953 was allowed to account for the following sentence:

Formation

With the poem in the summer of 1953 in his summer home resulting in Buckow " The Solution" reflected Brecht means of poetry about the events of June 17, 1953. The idea of ​​" the government should itself elect a new people", Brecht had already in the 1930s theme in his fragment remained Tuiroman. The direct reason for the poem was a contribution How ashamed I am! by Kurt Barthel, first secretary of the Writers' Union of the GDR ( until 1954, then a member of the Presidium ) and candidate of the Central Committee of the SED in the New Germany in which it directed on 20 June 1953, the construction worker, says:

Publication

Of the Buckower Elegies Brecht published in his lifetime, only six; The solution was not among them. The poem was first printed in the newspaper Die Welt (1959 ), then. During the first book editions of Buckower Elegies, which appeared in 1964 in Frankfurt am Main Helene Weigel continued his survey in the poems output in Aufbau-Verlag (1969).