The Songs from The Threepenny Opera, for voice and piano (guitar)

Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg on 10 February 1898 and died in Berlin on 14 August 1956. From 1917 to 1918 he studied natural sciences, medicine and literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. However, he had to interrupt his studies as early as 1918 because he was deployed as a medical soldier in a military hospital in Augsburg. Brecht began writing plays while still a student. From 1922 he worked as a dramaturge at the Munich Kammerspiele. From 1924 to 1926 he was director at Max Reinhardt's Deutsches Theater in Berlin. In 1933, Brecht left Berlin with his family and friends and fled via Prague, Vienna and Zurich to Denmark, where he stayed for the next five years. In addition to dramas, Brecht also wrote articles for several émigré magazines in Prague, Paris and Amsterdam. In 1948 he returned from exile to Berlin, where he worked as an author and director until his death.