ABSTRACT
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan was written during Brecht’s period of exile following his flight from Nazi Germany, and was completed in Finland in 1941. Though it was performed in Zurich in 1943, it was not until 1952 that it received its West German première in Frankfurt am Main and 1957, a year after Brecht’s death, that it was presented by his ‘home’ theatrical company, the Berliner Ensemble, at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in East Berlin. Since then it has become one of his most popular plays.
