Mother Courage and Her Children , with Therese Giehse in the title role, with Erni Wilhemi, Hans Christian Blech, and Karl Lieffen, at the Munich Kammerspiele, directed by Bertolt Brecht, Munich, 1950. The Courage of a Mother and Her Child, with Therese Giehse in the title role, Ernie Wilhemi, Hans Christian for eight wind instruments, and Karl Lieffen, in Kammerspiele Munich, by cloth Leicht, Munich, 1950. Mother's Courage and Her Children (German: Fimut Courage und ihre Kinder) is written in 1939 with an important contribution by the German dramatist and poet Brecht (1898-1956) Margaret Steffin . [2] After four very important plays in Switzerland and Germany from 1959 to 1952, during the last three years under the supervision and/or direction of Brecht, the play was filmed a few years after Brecht's death in 1959/1960 with Brecht's widow and heroine, Helene Weigel. [ 3 ]

. Mother Courage is considered the greatest game of the 20th century and perhaps the most anti-war play of all time. [4] Most recently, it was produced in August 2006 in New York City, starring Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, and Austin Pendleton, by George C. Wolfe at the New York Shakespeare Festival A series of free performances at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.

. Mother's Courage was a play of 9 Brecht wrote in an attempt to deal with the rise of fascism and Nazism. : Written primarily in response to the invasion of Poland (1939) by German troops under Hitler, Brecht wrote Mother of Courage, what the writer called "white heat", over a month. [5] As leading Brecht scholars Ralf Manchem and John William Willett write:

[6] Mother Courage, its subject's catastrophic consequences, the European war and The Blind Man hoped to profit from it and was said to be in writing within a month, with almost no preliminary research showing a money order or any other evidence. It must have been a very direct piece of inspiration. [ 6 ]

"Brecht's genius was to mix humor in the great tragedies "Brecht's genius was to mix humor in the great tragedies

- not always, but as a contrast." -Not always, but as a contrast."

Therese Giehse, 1968. [7] Therese Giehse, 1968. [ 7 ]

Following Brecht's own principles for political drama, the play is not set in modern times but during the Thirty Years' War of 1618–1648. Not set in modern times but during the Thirty Years' War from 1618 to 1648. It follows the fortunes of Anna Fierling, nicknamed "Mother Courage", a wily canteen woman with the Swedish Army who is determined to make her living from the war. A woman with the Swedish Army who is determined to save her life from war. Over the course of the play, she loses all three of her children, Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin, to the same war from which she sought to profit. , Eilif, and Kattrin, the same war she seeks for profit.

The name of the central character, Mother Courage, is derived from a picaresque work by the 17th-century German writer, Grimmelshausen, whose central character was the early short novel, The Courage of Runagate,[8] also of struggle and indulgence. She goes through the Thirty Years' War in Germany and Poland, but in other stories is mainly Brecht's collaboration with Steffin.