Il padre era cattolico, sua madre protestante e il giovane brecht fu educato nella fede. The threepenny opera was brecht s first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his bestloved and mostperformed plays. The threepenny opera was brechts first and greatest commercial success, and it remains one of his bestloved and mostperformed plays. By bertolt brecht and kurt weill in collaboration with elisabeth. She made a rough translation of gays text for brecht, and it became one of his many current. By bertolt brecht and kurt weill in collaboration with elisabeth hauptmann. Schulmaterial dreigroschenoper munchner volkstheater. From that day berlin was swept by a dreigroschenoper fever. Beiden hebben aan dit stuk een belangrijk deel van hun bekendheid te danken. Bachelorarbeit, masterarbeit, hausarbeit oder dissertation. Coming of age during the weimar republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in munich and moved to berlin in 1924, where he wrote the threepenny opera with kurt weill. The play was adapted by elisabeth hauptmann from john gays the beggars opera 1728. Based on john gays eighteenthcentury beggars opera, the play is set in victorian englands soho but satirizes the bourgeois society of the weimar republic through its wry love story of polly peachum and mack the knife macheath. Complete your kurt weill, bertolt brecht collection.