The exhibition is dedicated to JOURNAL and KRIEGSFIEBEL, two projects that Brecht pursued during his exile, first in Denmark and then in Sweden, Finland and the USA, and which are among the most extraordinary works of his literary oeuvre. In them, the playwright and director without a stage and the poet without a public finds a form in which he can deal with the time of the world war surrounding him and the situation of exile in a formally advanced way. Brecht uses articles and photos from daily newspapers and magazines to create a new form of chronicle that relates current events to his personal life and literary work. Eighty years later, "Brecht's Paper War" looks through his glasses with today's eyes and tries to understand how he saw the "American way of life" in the time of Roosevelt, Truman and McCarthy.

Idea, concept, design:
Grischa Meyer with Holger Teschke
Artistic collaboration:
Gerhard Oschatz

© Fabian Schreyer

The literature program of the Brechtfestival was realized with the kind support of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts.
Recording and streaming as part of BRECHT DIGITAL. Funded within the framework of "dive in. Program for Digital Interactions" of the German Federal Cultural Foundation, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM) in the NEUSTART KULTUR.&quot program;