The Flight across the Ocean

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The Flight across the Ocean (Der Ozeanflug) is a Lehrstuck by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, inspired by We, Charles Lindbergh's 1927 account of his transatlantic flight. Written for the Baden-Baden Music Festival, it was originally entitled Lindbergh's Flight (Lindberghflug) and premiered in 1929 with music by Kurt Weill and Paul Hindemith before opening at Berlin's Kroll Theatre the same year. The play was enlarged as Der Flug der Lindbergh in 1930 as but the new portion was not set to music. In 1950 Brecht removed Lindbergh's name for a production by the Südwestrundfunk, adding a preface denouncing Lindbergh's contributions to the technology of terror bombing as well as his wartime anti-interventionism and apparent Nazi sympathies. The original line "My name is Charles Lindburgh" became "My name is of no account". [1]

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	Baal • Drums in the Night • The Beggar • A Wedding • Driving Out a Devil • Lux in Tenebris • The Catch • In The Jungle of Cities • Edward II • Man Equals Man • Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer • The Elephant Calf • Little Mahagonny • The Threepenny Opera • The Flight across the Ocean • The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent • Happy End • The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny • Der Jasager / Der Neinsager • The Decision • Saint Joan of the Stockyards • The Exception and the Rule • The Mother • Kuhle Wampe • The Seven Deadly Sins • Round Heads and Pointed Heads • The Horatians and the Curiatians • Fear and Misery of the Third Reich • Señora Carrar's Rifles • Life of Galileo • How Much Is Your Iron? • Dansen • Mother Courage and Her Children • The Trial of Lucullus • Mr Puntila and his Man Matti • The Good Person of Szechwan • The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui • Hangmen Also Die! • The Visions of Simone Machard • The Duchess of Malfi • Schweyk in the Second World War • The Caucasian Chalk Circle • Antigone • The Days of the Commune • The Tutor • Die Verurteilung des Lukullus • Report from Herrnburg • Coriolanus • Joan of Arc • Turandot • Don Juan • Trumpets and Drums

Operas and musicals by Kurt Weill
Der Protagonist	1926
Mahagonny-Songspiel	1927
Der Zar lässt sich photographieren	1928
The Threepenny Opera	1928
Happy End	1929
Der Lindberghflug (with Paul Hindemith)	1929
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny	1930
Der Jasager	1930
Die Bürgschaft	1932
Der Silbersee	1933
The Seven Deadly Sins	1933
Der Kuhhandel	1935
Johnny Johnson	1936
The Eternal Road	1937
Knickerbocker Holiday	1938
Lady in the Dark	1940
One Touch of Venus	1943
The Firebrand of Florence	1945
Street Scene	1946
Down in the Valley	1948
Love Life	1948
Lost in the Stars	1949
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