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The Brecth House
by Joachim Koester
In 1933, Bertolt Brecht fled Germany and traveled as a political
refugee to Prague, Vienna, Switzerland and Paris before he finally
settled in Denmark. Brecht bought a house in Skovsbostrand, a small
village in the countryside, and continued his work, creating some
of his most famous plays and essays in these rural surroundings.
Occasionally, he also walked along the beach or pondered his version
of chess, which incorporated surprising political attributes: the
pieces would become either more powerful or weaker according to
how long they stood unmoved on the chessboard. Bertolt Brecht lived
in Skovsbostrand for six years and in a letter to Walter Benjamin,
sent in the spring of 1934, he urged his friend to join him. Brecht
wrote of Skovsbostrand: "Here, the world comes to an end more
quietly".
Joachim Koester, 2004
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