German satires

German satires is the title of two collections of poems by the German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht .

The first part contains poems written by Brecht in exile, which appeared in 1937 as Part V of the Svendborg Poems . The poems of this group are:

• The book burning
• Dream of a big grumpy woman
• The service train
• Difficulty of governing
• Need for propaganda
• The improvements in the regime
• The regime's fears
• Cannons more necessary than butter
• The youth and the Third Reich
• The war should be well prepared
• The love of the leader
• What the Führer doesn't know
• Words the guide cannot hear
• The Chancellor's concerns
• Consolation from the Chancellor
• The Jew, a misfortune for the people
• The government as an artist
• Duration of the Third Reich
• Ban on theater criticism

The poems of the second part were written in the USA in 1945 immediately after the end of the war. Here Brecht tied in with his satires from the Svendborg poems , as he judged post-war developments in Western Europe in a critical and distanced manner. In his opinion, fascism was not eradicated consistently enough and the working class was not given the place it deserved. For example, at the end of 1945 he noted: “Anger turns into indifference. Relationships will be restored, on a lower platform. "

The second part contains the poems:

• legality
• The Nuremberg Trial
• The war has been violated

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bertolt Brecht: Selected works in 6 volumes . Suhrkamp 1997, vol. 3, p. 504 f.