Emigrant Diaries. 1938 — 1955

“The Working Journal,” as the diaries of Bertolt Brecht, the greatest playwright of the 20th century, were called, was kept from 1938 to 1955, — during his exile from Germany and after his return. A tuning fork for these entries was the piercing honesty with which he responded to the events that unfolded. The criterion of political and artistic honesty he applied to everything that surrounded him — to performances, texts, ideas, and people. Changing countries, losing loved ones, participating in ideological debates and working on plays, Brecht glued newspaper clippings into his diary — a chronicle of the world's disintegration, and then the chronicle of a new reality.