In 1917 Brecht enrolled as a medical student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After military service as a medical orderly, he returned to his studies, but abandoned them in 1921. During the Bavarian revolutionary turmoil of 1918, Brecht wrote his first play, BAAL, which was produced in 1923. The play celebrated life and sexuality and was a great success.

Around 1927 Brecht started to study Karl Marx’s DAS KAPITAL and by 1929 he had become a Communist. At the Schiffbauerdam Theatre he trained many actors who were to become famous on stage and screen, among them Oscar Homolka, Peter Lorre and the singer Lotte Lenya.

Brecht’s politically committed play, DIE MASSNAHME (1930, The Measures Taken) reflects his anti-sentimentality and directness, in such a way that even the Communist Party was quite disturbed. In the play a young Communist is murdered by the Party – his sympathy for the poor and their suffering only postpones the day of the showdown. T

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