Tue, February 12, 2019 at 6:45 AM UTC Back in 1977 I met Paula Banholzer, Brecht’s first love, and some of his friends from his early days. I made a documentary film about Brecht’s early years ...

Buried within Heinrich Breloer’s superficial and plodding two-part TV movie about Bertolt Brecht are old and new interviews with the playwright’s collaborators that hold a fascination light years away ...

A patrician family of Luebeck merchants droops into oblivion in "Buddenbrooks: The Decline of a Family," a lackluster adaptation of Thomas Mann's monumental novel. Big-name German cast is aces, but ...

Director Heinrich Breloer mixes drama with documentary in 'Brecht,' his marathon TV biopic of radical playwright and leftist icon Bertolt Brecht. By Stephen Dalton Bertolt Brecht was lucky there was ...