Trommeln in der Nacht

The original title Spartacus refers to the historical-political context: the revolution of 1918 In the main character, the artilleryman Kragler, returned from the war, abandoned by his fiancée, Brecht drew the "false proletarian", the "fatal revolutionary who sabotaged the revolution, whom Lenin fought more fiercely than the open bourgeois". Kragler, a proletarian and revolutionary out of betrayed love, turns his back on the revolution when his lover returns to him, becomes a privatizing bourgeois again.