{"product_id":"the-partnership-brecht-weill-three-women-and-germany-on-the-brink-paperback","title":"The Partnership: Brecht, Weill, Three Women, and Germany on the Brink - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePamela Katz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis fascinating portrait of two of the most brilliant theater artists of the twentieth century--and the women who made their work possible--is set against the explosive years of the Weimar Republic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAmong the most outsized personalities of the sizzling, decadent period between the Great War and the Nazis' rise to power were the renegade poet Bertolt Brecht and the avant-garde composer Kurt Weill. These two young geniuses and the three women vital to their work--actresses Lotte Lenya and Helene Weigel and writer Elisabeth Hauptmann--joined talents to create the theatrical masterworks \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Opera\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny\u003c\/i\u003e, only to split in rancor as their culture cracked open and their differences became irreconcilable. \u003ci\u003eThe Partnership\u003c\/i\u003e is the first book to tell the full story of one of the most important creative collaborations of the last century, and the first to give full credit to the women who contributed their enormous gifts. Theirs is a thrilling story of artistic daring entwined with sexual freedom during the Weimar Republic's most fevered years, a time when art and politics and society were inextricably mixed.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePAMELA KATZ is a screenwriter and novelist whose most notable works are films made in collaboration with legendary director Margarethe von Trotta, including \u003ci\u003eRosenstrasse;\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Other Woman;\u003c\/i\u003e and most recently \u003ci\u003eHannah Arendt\u003c\/i\u003e, which received international acclaim, and was selected as one of the New York Times' Top Ten Films of 2013. Katz teaches screenwriting at NYU's Tisch Graduate Film Program and lives with her family in New York City and Berlin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eVisit her website: http: \/\/www.pkatz.com\/\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47506273534130,"sku":"9780307744166","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/TZzKY_4dM69780307744166.webp?v=1779549757","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/the-partnership-brecht-weill-three-women-and-germany-on-the-brink-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}