The Mother (Brecht play)

The mother. Life of the revolutionary Pelagea Wlassowa from Tver is a play written by Bertolt Brecht based on the novel by Maxim Gorky (1906/1907, German 1907) using a dramatization of Günther and Günther Stark manner Born.

On January 31, 1932 premiered at the Comedy House on Schiffbauerdamm with Helene Weigel in the title role, is this lesson from a woman " between unemployment, wage cuts, political agitation and constraints. '"

The plot of Gorky's novel was relocated by Brecht in the time 1905-1917. In 14 scenes, the conversion of the disaffected working-class woman is shown to be a decisive Communist, which makes more and more on the side of her revolutionary son.