“... not truly, if I would, if I could, [it] justifies my one whole lunatic escape. [fr. 286 as Bertolt Brecht’s FBI file #100-67077] At a cocktail party attended by known Communists, on the one hand, the subject being suitably paraphrased as Mr & Mrs Bert Brecht, where ten years of exile have left their ...”

“... Papa, that the son of a genius is never a genius himself. Therefore, you can’t be a genius!’ Bertolt Brecht wrote: ‘The whole world knows Klaus Mann, the son of Thomas Mann. By the way, who is Thomas Mann?’ When The Magic Mountain appeared in 1924, Thomas Mann wrote in his son’s copy: ‘To my respected colleague – his promising ...”

“... the knowledge and experience of their daily lives: the knowledge and the experience that (to quote Brecht) ‘the measures taken’ to secure the workers’ paradise did not work. In the face of endless indoctrination to the contrary, people conceived the uncertain hope that social justice and the benefits of the welfare state can be separated from the ...”