Bertolt Brecht speaks in the House Committee on Un-American Activities
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- Опубликовано: 27 авг 2024
- Bertolt Brecht 1947/48 bei einem Verhör im House Committee on Un-American Activities (englisch: Senatsausschuss für unamerikanische Umtriebe; HUAC)
The funniest thing is that his English was almost perfect, he was literally acting like he didn’t know English
I think his English is excellent in this video. What actually funny is I think it kinda looks like Brecht is trolling the committee and makes them look like a fool. lol
@@LeonWagg he is
that is why we are here! Do any of us remember any of these committee member's name?
@@LeonWagg hes a GOAT
1:15 "I wrote a german poem, but that is very different [...]"
I'm crying
I remeber this as if it was only yesterday
I own the answer print 1 for the 1979 movie A Good Example. "BREACHT BEFORE H.U.A.C". its going up for sale if your interested.
There was an interview with his daughter where she claimed he had an amazing command over English, and was faking poor English for the hearing. I don't know how true that is, but I the idea that he was just fucking with these guys.
What a legendary forgotten man who till the end fought against Fascism
May he rest in peace he was taken too young
Brecht opposed the fascists...in Germany and the US
Not Stalin though
@Sebastian Guevara the voice of reason...
@Hussein You're an idiot
@@ricarleite I would rather he oppose fascists and not Stalin than the other way around. They are not equivalent.
@@Varkhal218 You didn't read your history books, did you?
what these attorneys think who they are? to threaten a men which name will be recognized in thousand years.
History is a joke...
Well said
Wow, you're pretty funny. Brecht will be remembered as the guy promotes by the lying communist professors to brainwash the youth maybe.
I took all the courses. I also took the bait. Then I started thinking on my own and realized what a gigantic pill of a lie I had held my mouth wide open for the liars to shove down my throat. The unconscious liars...it is amazing how well some beings understand human psychology.
@@Nowhy history is a LIE
@@Stahlgewitter I see it the same as literature and one can learn a lot about the human condition when looking at it, but only if one applies ones own thinking (if one is able to think for oneself) and experience to it. One can engage with a story and be all characters in it through thinking, feeling and imagination, all at the same time..
when injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty!
(c) bertolt brecht
greatings from Germany
Well and he thought to know without a doubt what is justice but had no clue about mercy. A state with him as dictator was his wet dream I imagine. I would just ruuuuun! Scary how many see him as great.. Wait, greatness never was for the fame of the masses.
@@Nowhy Your comment is an incoherent mess
@@Varkhal218 what don't you understand and why?
@@Nowhy Yeah, it's a mix of random ideas in a hard-to-read comments. Some shit about "mercy", another one of his supposed "wet dream". Lol.
Funny thing is, the injustice committed has been masked by the perpetrators for decades, possibly even centuries or millennia, as the actions of those fighting injustice.
1 question: Is central banking practice just?
The committee members were, of course, idiots. Brecht was a German national, travelling on a Swiss passport. Of course he was un-American! So was Adenhauer.
i am not german but bavarian please be more specific
Bertolt Brecht Please be more specific, you are Augsburgian....
poor Brecht, fleeing fascists just to wind up in the pocket of other fascists
In the end, however, he found refuge in the GDR and died peacefully in East Berlin.
I love his voice!!! He sounds so wholesome
How is the Patriot Act any different than the House Committee on Un-American Activities
The good days of indoor smoking ;P
Danke, hab das ganze Audio dazu.
Hab mal gehört das er dabei ein wenig einen auf den "braven Soldaten Schwejk" machte.
I don't care about politics, but Brecht's comment about the translation of his poem is hilarious! Somewhat depressing for any translator out there. But also a chance.
My brother in spirit!
only if you are not anti semitic and not stand against israel
+Bertolt Brecht you can't be a true communist and not standing against israel. and that is not antisemitism.
So you are also against everything?
@@basse1492 wrong.
History wright its own lessons. now and in a thousand years no one will remember this fascists but everyone will remember Brecht.
We must remember those fascists. Americans need to know that "it can't happen here" is a call to action, not to complacency.
100% disagree. Stepping outside the square for a minute, assess the label "fascist", how it is applied and what people think it means. Generic undesirability in government, crimes against humanity or the name of a political party in Italy erroneously used to describe nationalist-paramilitary organisations and governments: cast as the villains in a fascicle play written by the victors of WWII, to establish an equilibrium and new epoch which is now stale and destined, with its approaches to world crisis, for dissolution.
Brecht in the minds of most who have heard of him, is considered a grey-abstract modernist lacking colour, drawing on deconstructionism and his own life experience, particular to a period in time, to push theatre in a counter direction to make up for either a lack of imagination or a disdain for innovation. Creativity hostile to creativity.
He is and will be a footnote in a list of many incidental artists, that thought outside the square by constructing one smaller to neighbour it and called the kettle black.
@@matthewlaurence3121 perhaps but a random sample of Brecht's quotes are far more lucid, coherent, sad and wise than whatever it is that you spouted
@@matthewlaurence3121 In the liberal circles of homosexual university professors (like the ones I had, all literal, not meaning any insult), Becht is held in very high regard. However, the fascists will certainly outlive his name...the negative cult of personality the liars about ww2 have formed in our collective consciousness, at least.
Is there a full transcript of this interrogation? hahahaha Amazing
please don't let us get back here America
long live socialism
Never mind that GreatGrumbledook guy, he is just upset because he has to read Brecht in school and as he does not understand, he does not like the work of Brecht.
Real men don't.
i got here because of a book called the 48 laws of power
@GreatGrumbledook cool thanks for the conformation.
wow . . .
come Galileo Galileo coi preti...
the Nazis hated him
the McCarthyites hated him
and it wasn't long before he fell afoul of the East German authorities as well
what a fucking hero!
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So communist whom the east germans disliked? Thats a wierd set of characteristics. Anyway, when we build the revolution, this fascist history will be written down to remain. A reminder of what fascism and liberalism was and why it must aways be fought.
Poor Brecht being abused in this shameful way. @devereuxmatthew
America stinks.
subtitles are wrong
Danke, habe Link gesetzt
www.wgsebald.de/Brecht/3_jan.html#35
Türkiye Brecht love
subtitles please!
Ich kann nicht verstehen warum überhaupt ein Deutscher vor einem US-amerikanischen Gericht steht !
+Karl Marx Das war kein Gericht sondern ein Ausschuss des US Kongresses,ähnlich wie ein Untersuchungsausschuss des Bundestages.Brecht war damals nach Hollywood gezogen und strebte eine Karriere als Drehbuchautor an.Sinn dieses ganzen Zirkus war es,"Kommunisten die Hollywood unterwandern" aufzuspüren,also wurde er da auch vorgeladen.Überhaupt,macht die Nationalität eines Befragten oder Angeklagten keinen Unterschied,wenn das (angebliche) Verbrechen in den USA begannen wurde,liegt die Zuständigkeit bei den US-Behörden.Das gilt natürlich auch für jedes andere Land,also ein Ami kann in Deutschland vor Gericht gestellt oder von einem Ausschuss befragt werden etc. Brecht und die anderen "Hollywood Ten",wurden auch nicht von diesen Ausschuss verurteilt,sie wurden wegen "Missachtung des Kongresses" danach angeklagt,Brecht wurde vom Gericht, als Ausländer abgeschoben und die anderen(US-Bürger) haben Haftstrafen bekommen.Juristisch war das alles korrekt,moralisch ist eine das eine andere Frage.Dazu muss man sagen,Brecht lebte und arbeitete in Europa ohne Probleme,aber die Karrieren der anderen "Hollywood Ten" waren im Eimer,die kamen auf eine Blacklist und durften für über 10 jahre nicht mehr in Hollywood arbeiten.Charlie Chaplin verliess deshalb damals auch Hollywood und zog nach England zurück,Humphrie Bogart hatte auch Ärger mit diesem McCarthy Kommittee,weil er sich weigerte andere Autoren,Schauspieler anzuschwärzen.
doubleP
Humphrey Bogart ! und nicht Humphrie Bogart
@@frankgunold268 Er erklaert dir hier was und du bist undankbar
@GreatGrumbledook no, i don't tend to giggle
Good one Brecht, why would they accuse him of that, if he didn't even write the book in their language? These people were dumb as shit.
“…and had a bad ax to grind, too.”
I’m no socialist, but as a stage actor, I tip my hat to Bertolt Brecht and his efforts of revolutionizing the performing arts.
@sceptiquele: And wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove. Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal: It is not the trial of a woman's war, the bitter clamour of two eager tongues, can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; the blood is hot that must be cooled for this: I do defy him, and I spit at him; call him a slanderous coward and a villain: Which to maintain I would allow him odds, and meet him, were I tied to run afoot even to the Alps.
the question is whether that is "bad" or not!
I have the answer print No 1 for the film A good example. Its for sale if anyone's interested
07506268288
GODS ARM is my Party
brecht starb, bevor die berliner Mauer errichtet wurde. zu der zeit spielt ja auch der film himmel ohne sterne
@GreatGrumbledook Oh, I see, you're doing the Monty Python Holy Grail bit, and replacing the English with the Americans and inserting some homicidal exhortations against Brecht. How awfully witty.
What is not mentioned here, is that spite of his historic leftist orientation , during the post-war Stalinist purge of German indigenous Communists, many rescued out of concentration camps, he is said to have been very accommodating to the STASI . One of the few that survived.
"Stalinist purge of german indigenous communists"? I know american propaganda is the only thing occupying your thick skull, but Stallin killed only one specific kind of german, i.e. the ones you like. Sorry to deny you the pleasure, but no communists were harmed by the USSR, only fascists and fascist collaborators (or fascists and other fascists). Maybe not if you count the renegade Trotsky.
Galileo Galilei ante la Iglesia Católica
1:16 why are they laughing at Brecht?
Because he told a joke: "No, the poem I wrote was in German."
Phil Savage ah ok
@@tyrozone5 and "that is something different than what I wrote"
He was a dangorous mind. Everybody fights him.
One has to fight such stinking piles of shit.
Except no he isn't and no one does
a communist was obviously equal to a nazi in former days ...
that spirit is unfortunately gone.
sorry, guys, but these fellows were everything they were accused of being, in most cases by self-admission!!
This joker pretending he doesn't speak English
+Sarah Davison He was from Germany, Honey Boo Boo and was a world-respected author whose plays are still being performed and appreciated. The real question is why do you think what YOU write matters in the least to every sane person on this earth with a sense of decency.
+Sarah Davison Do any of you McCarthy fans have any idea who our allies were when Hitler was in power less than 10 years before these idiotic witch hunts began? Do any of you have any idea what freedom of speech means? Could any of you even pass an exam for gaining entry into this country as a citizen had you not been born here I would say that's highly unlikely that you'd even manage to get a D minus were you to be tested. And the fact remain: The willfully ignorant far right - just like the McCarthyist - always fail miserably at showing what a "true" Americans they are every time they open their mouths. It's more like a septic system gone awry.
jakrdy, why are you upset with Sarah? It is well-known that Brecht pretended to have worse English than he actually did to play a joke on the Senators.
He's not pretending, he was under pressure and try to find the right words to express himself. And that you find him a joker say more about the "greatness" of your cultural lugage, than you realised.
He certainly made fools of the Committee. :-D
Liar
go read some of his plays you will see what kind of person he was
national socialism?
his voice sounds awful.
He is awful...