Bertolt Brecht speaks in the House Committee on Un-American Activities

[JohnnyBazooka]

He was a dangorous mind. Everybody fights him.

[PhoenixMW]

Never mind that GreatGrumbledook guy, he is just upset because he has to read Brecht in school and as he does not understand, he does not like the work of Brecht.

[Picardy]

How is the Patriot Act any different than the House Committee on Un-American Activities

[vivascargill]

as I recall some one said it was like a zoo keeper being questioned by a panel of apes

[franzfaramir]

long live socialism

[langengro]

Faszinierend an der Situation war, dass es da bei Brecht eine ganz bestimmte Grundüberzeugung gab: Nämlich, dass man sich vor einem Organ wie dem McCarthy-Ausschuss durchaus nicht selber zu belasten braucht. Jedweder moralische Skrupel im Namen der Wahrhaftigkeit war hier nach seiner Meinung bloß eine abergläubische bürgerliche Sentimentalität, die sich der echte Revolutionär nicht leisten kann. Sein "Leben des Galilei", das damals uraufgeführt wurde, thematisiert gerade das.

[neverendmayhem]

I don't care about politics, but Brecht's comment about the translation of his poem is hilarious! Somewhat depressing for any translator out there. But also a chance.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@GuiMontag1: Well I am certainly a French nationalist but what do you mean by having an agenda? And why do you think me to be a monstrous supernatural creature from Old Norse mythology? Did you take too much Ether or any other drug?

[GreatGrumbledook]

@GuiMontag1: As I said 90% of the Americans are apprehended that easy, some require a little bit more but few are able to stand much more!

[GreatGrumbledook]

@GuiMontag1: Sure, but you Americans are usually easily apprehended by some French taunting: "You don't frighten us, American pig-dogs! Go and boil your bottom, sons of a silly person. I blow my nose at you, so-called president, you and all your silly American wimps. I don't wanna talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper! I fart in your general direction! Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries! No, now go away or I shall taunt you a second time-a!"

[kelly2011]

@GreatGrumbledook haha that was the worst insult i could have ever read. now see if you were in america we could of tore you to shreds. pig-dogs wtf??!?!?!

[GreatGrumbledook]

@kelly2011: Then, executioner, unsheathe thy sword: By him that made us all, I am resolved that the American manhood lies upon their tongues!

While I will yet invoke another French taunt against the Americans:

[GreatGrumbledook]

@kelly2011: Allo, dappy American cry-babies, who have the brains of a duck, you know. So, we French fellows outwit you a second time! How you Americans say, 'I one more time, mac, unclog my nose in your direction', sons of a window-dresser! So, you think you could out- clever us French folk with your silly Washington consensus?! I wave my private parts at your aunties, you cheesy lot of second hand electric donkey-bottom biters. No chance, American bed-wetting types.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@kelly2011: I burst my pimples at you and call your federal constitution a silly thing, you tiny-brained wipers of other people's bottoms! Yes, depart a lot at this time, and cut the approaching any more or we fire arrows at the tops of your heads and make castanets out of your testicles already! Ha ha haaa ha! And now, remain gone, illegitimate-faced bugger-folk! And, if you think you got a nasty taunting this time, you ain't heard nothing yet, dappy American cry-babies! Thpppt!

[almanacofsleep]

@GreatGrumbledook You must think highly of yourself to clog up this video with inane rambling.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@almanacofsleep: Had I the brethren of Brecht here, their lives and his were not revenge sufficient for me; no, if I digg'd up his forefathers' graves and hung their rotten coffins up in chains, it could not slake mine ire, nor ease my heart. The sight of any of his sorry-efforts is as a fury to torment my soul; and till I root out his accursed filth and leave not one out, I live in hell. Therefore--

[almanacofsleep]

@GreatGrumbledook cool thanks for the conformation.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@almanacofsleep: Has anyone ever told you that you are a giggling imbecile?

[almanacofsleep]

@GreatGrumbledook no, i don't tend to giggle

[GreatGrumbledook]

@almanacofsleep: Certainly, it is not a thing to tend at; for if, look you, Brecht were my brother, I would desire the German government to use its good pleasure, and put him to execution; for discipline ought to be used!

[JamesPopaloaf]

@GreatGrumbledook You strike me as a bit of a bastard. Also, your pseudo-Elizabethan burbling is quite laughable.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@JamesPopaloaf: Well, though I doubt not your bastardy it is no longer common to punish children fore being unlawfully begotten; so I will not strike you for it; and the verses I tend to employ are not the one of Queen Elizabeth but of Shakespeare, who did live both in her age and the early Stuart era; and there is nothing false about them, save that they have to be modified for the current occasion.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@JamesPopaloaf: In more than 9 out of 10 cases the Monty Python quote stays undiscovered and is of great value, when coping with any internet coxcombs and the rest is not that much amiss that I should not employ it; as for the non-poet Brecht: There is nothing illegal in his execution, since he is a foul traitor to his country and therefore has to be put to execution at once!

[sceptiquele]

@GreatGrumbledook

Wait I may understand that you do not like his work as a poet, but why the hell is he a traitor to Germany? Funny enough he was one of the few intellctuals who didn't support the nazis (wich was really treason against Germany).

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@sceptiquele: First, heaven be the record to my speech! Now, do I turn to Brecht, and mark my greeting well; for what I speak my body shall make good upon this earth, or my divine soul answer it in heaven. He is a traitor and a miscreant, too good to be so and too bad to live, since the more fair and crystal is the sky, the uglier seem the clouds that in it fly. Once more, the more to aggravate the note, with a foul traitor's name stuff I his throat!

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@sceptiquele: And wish, ere I move, what my tongue speaks my right drawn sword may prove. Let not my cold words here accuse my zeal: It is not the trial of a woman's war, the bitter clamour of two eager tongues, can arbitrate this cause betwixt us twain; the blood is hot that must be cooled for this: I do defy him, and I spit at him; call him a slanderous coward and a villain: Which to maintain I would allow him odds, and meet him, were I tied to run afoot even to the Alps.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@sceptiquele: Look, what I speak, my life shall prove it true; that Brecht has received money, the which he has detained for lewd employments, like a false traitor and injurious villain. Besides I say and will in battle prove, or here or elsewhere to the furthest verge that ever was surveyed, that all the treasons for these eighteen years complotted and contrived in this land fetch from false Brecht their first head and spring.

[JamesPopaloaf]

@GreatGrumbledook Oh, I see, you're doing the Monty Python Holy Grail bit, and replacing the English with the Americans and inserting some homicidal exhortations against Brecht. How awfully witty.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@GuiMontag1: Denying his beloved communism (like the apostle Peter had denied Jesus Christ) and then fleeing the country afterwards is not my imagination of mocking something! As I live in France I do of course suffer under the shameful defeat of 1940 and many dimwits mock me because of it! France has defeated the Saracens, Huns, English and many more. Not long ago an Algerian accused me of being a monkey surrendered; though this maybe because Charles De Gaulle failed to lay Algeria waste...

[DerowEgen]

@GreatGrumbledook

"four years of eating Sauerkraut"

Four years of frog's legs withdrawal. We're terribly sorry.

[GreatGrumbledook]

@DerowEgen: I hope so; and for your follies of wagging two world wars in a dilettantish way that they make the Americans the Lords of the World! Have you been bribed or was this just the desire for a heroic downfall in great bloodshed and carnage, just like it happens in Song of the Nibelungs?

[GreatGrumbledook]

@GuiMontag1: I am pretty serious! Yes, four years of German occupation teaches to hate. Four years of drinking beer (instead of wine), four years of eating Sauerkraut, four years of strictly enforced traffic regulation and all because of these communist bastards, who destroyed the French will to fight with their god-abhorred pacifist and defeatist propaganda and such vile creatures like Brecht, who did more harm to the Allied war effort that Hitler with all his fancy tank armies!

[tyrlop]

haha, nice brecht owns them.

[GreatGrumbledook]

Praised be all the gods that Romans bow before for the mighty gift of anti-Communism! It is the sweetest vengeance to see this god-abhorred idiot Brecht in front of all the world as the dastard and treacherous cowards that he is! I cannot tell how much I suffered in the Germans lessons at school under his awful writings! In Germany I bet the pupils read the Wallenstein of Schiller but here in France I had to read his Mother Courage and could not help but to read the writings of Clausewitz...

[GreatGrumbledook]

...but to see Brecht denying his beloved Communism in public like the apostle Peter had denied sweet Jesus after he was arrested by the kind Romans (and later crucified for the fault of not knowing what truth is in front of righteous Pilate) is divine justice, even to all posterity which suffers or will suffer under his literary trash!

[lunatir]

Danke, hab das ganze Audio dazu.

Hab mal gehört das er dabei ein wenig einen auf den "braven Soldaten Schwejk" machte.

[grummeper]

Danke!