Bertolt Brecht: "Der verwundete Sokrates" - eine Analyse

Student research project from the year 2011 in the subject German Studies - Modern German Literature, grade: 2,3, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, language: German, abstract: "Der verwundete Sokrates" was written in 1938 in Skovbostrand, Denmark. Bertolt Brecht, author of this story, had fled from his home country Germany in 1933. Because of his anti-fascist stance, which was also expressed in his works, he was a thorn in the side of the Nazis. During his first years in exile, Brecht devoted his prose to criticizing fascism. Surely he thought he would thereby achieve a reaction among his readers, for there were still some hopes that brown rule would not establish itself in Germany. Brecht probably wanted to use his writings to draw attention to the Nazis' warlike intentions and to warn against them. However, "The Wounded Socrates" appeared together with some a.