Thomas Brasch is a poet, dramatist, filmmaker, translator - and a troublemaker in all these fields, from the very beginning. Born shortly before the end of the war to a Jewish-communist emigrant family in England, Brasch grew up in the young GDR.
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Halts Maul, Kassandra! DT Berlin
While his father became deputy minister of culture, Thomas destroyed the picture-book career he was destined for early on through aesthetic obstinacy. As a young poet in the tradition of Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Müller, Brasch described the life demands of a young generation that grew up in the GDR so ruthlessly that there was no room for him after his first publications.
When he left East for West Berlin at the end of 1976, he also caused controversy there because he refused to allow himself to be turned into a dissident, neither by the East nor by the West.
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Tom Kühnel
Jürgen Kuttner
Mareike Beykirch
Anja Schneider
Felix Goeser
Benjamin Lillie
Peter René Lüdicke
Jörg Pose
Matthias Trippner (Live-Musik)
Jan Stolterfoht (Live-Musik)
