Andreas Kragler, missing World War I soldier Anna Balicke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Balicke Karl Balicke Amalie Balicke Friedrich Murk, Anna's fiancé Babusch, a journalist Maid Waiter Marie, a prostitute Glubb, a bartender Bulltrotter, newspaper vendor Auguste, a prostitute Drunk[1]
Date premiered
29 September 1922 (1922-09-29)
Place premiered
Deutsches Theater
Original language
German
Genre
Comedy in Five Acts
Setting
Berlin, January 1919
Drums in the Night (German: Trommeln in der Nacht) is a play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it between 1919 and 1920, and it received its first theatrical production in 1922. It is in the Expressionist style of Ernst Toller and Georg Kaiser. The play—along with Baal and In the Jungle—won the Kleist Prize for 1922 (although it was widely assumed, perhaps because Drums was the only play of the three to have been produced at that point, that the prize had been awarded to Drums alone); the play was performed all over Germany as a result.[2] Brecht later claimed that he had only written it as a source of income.[3]
Drums in the Night is one of Brecht's earliest plays, written before he became a Marxist, but already the importance of class struggle in Brecht's thinking is apparent. According to Lion Feuchtwanger, the play was originally entitled Spartakus.[4] Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg of the Spartacist League—who were instrumental in the 'Spartacist uprising' in Berlin in January 1919—had only recently been abducted, tortured and killed by Freikorps soldiers.
^Brecht, Bertolt (1992). Die Stücke von Bertolt Brecht in einem Band. Suhrkamp Verlag.
^Willett (1967, 23-24), Willett and Manheim (1970, viii-ix), and Meech (1994, 50).
^Willett and Manheim (1970, ix).
^Willett (1967, 24).
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