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31. Success, Curtailed

31. Success, Curtailed

Lessons of the 'Troupe 1931' Theater Ensemble

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The original author of these essays was Ingeborg Franke von Wangenheim.

The morning after the premiere, we woke to reviews of “There Lies the Dog,” assured that we were actually making a difference — that our earlier successes weren’t “just a fluke.”

At the same time, there was no illusion about the seriousness of our situation. We understood that our premier’s success would come at a cost.

Newspaper-delivery boys in 1932 feature film “Kuhle Wampe,” written by Bertolt Brecht and Ernst Ottwalt, with music by Hanns Eisler.

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