ABSTRACT
In Bert Brecht's and Margarete Steffin's Galileo Galilei, the protagonist's grand lies are made understandable: Galilei makes an arrangement with the Church and the Pope that allows him to continue his research. This arrangement consists of Galilei's rescission. The Earth, he agrees, not the Sun, is the center of the universe. Against his better knowledge, Galilei accepts the interest of the Inquisition not to shake the foundations of the old image of the world. Galilei lies and with this lie, saves himself (Fuegi 1995, 369-371).
