Question
Answer the following about Bertolt Brecht's female collaborators, who were usually also his wives or mistresses. For 10 points each:
[10e] Brecht’s second wife, Helene Weigel, originated this title role, who loses her kids Kattrin, Eilif, and Swiss Cheese during the Thirty Years War.
ANSWER: Mother Courage [or Mutter Courage; accept either underlined part of Anna Fierling; accept Mother Courage and Her Children]
[10m] Elisabeth, an author with this surname, is sometimes purported to have written the lion's share of The Threepenny Opera. Another author with this surname centered his play The Weavers on an alienated Silesian mob.
ANSWER: Hauptmann [accept Elisabeth Hauptmann; accept Gerhart Hauptmann]
[10h] Building off her translation of this country's play The Sawdust Princess, Margarete Steffin teamed with Brecht on a comedy set in this country, in which the chauffeur Matti holds up a landowner's plan to marry his daughter Eva off to a diplomat.
ANSWER: Finland [or Suomi] (The Sawdust Princess is by Estonian-born Finnish author Hella Wuolijoki. The Brecht play is called Mr Puntila and His Man Matti.)
<Darren Petrosino, European Literature>
Summary
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