Henze-Digital, literarische Werke, Digitale Edition
author: Brecht, Bertolt; Bentley, Eric
source date: 1964
language: en
availability: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder is a play in twelve scenes written by Bertolt Brecht in 1939 with music by Paul Dessau and first performed in Zurich in 1941. Brecht's text was published under the title Mother Courage and her Children in 1965 by The National Theatre in London with English translation by Eric Bentley and only the lyrics by W.H. Auden.