Autograph quotation signed.

Folio (223 x 282 mm). ½ p. An album leaf with printed borders, printed footer "Beitrag zum Selbstschriftenalbum 'Deutschlands Zukunft'", and printed form for biographical information, mounted on a sheet of parchment paper (ca. 330 x 344 mm). A Marxist sentiment in German: "Deutschland braucht für seine zukunft nichts anderes als andere länder: die möglichst geschickte anwendung marxistischer gesichtspunkte auf gesellschaft und wirtschaft. Dann hätte es natürlich ebenso wie andre Länder die chance, aus seinem kulturellen sumpf herauszukommen [.]" ("For her future, Germany needs nothing but what other countries need: a thoroughly skilful application of Marxist perspectives to society and economy. That, of course, would provide Germany, like other countries, with a chance to escape from her cultural quagmire"). - Written as a contribution for an anthology published by Friedrich Koslowsky, "Deutschlands Köpfe der Gegenwart über Deutschlands Zukunft" (Berlin, Eigenbrödler-Verlag, 1928). - Brecht, already a confirmed communist by 1928, was just about to enjoy one of the greatest stage successes of the Weimar Republic with his "Threepenny Opera" (adapted from Gay's "Beggar's Opera"), with music by Kurt Weill. That same year Brecht had met Schoenberg's student Hanns Eisler, an artistic association that would last the rest of Brecht's life. - Koslowsky 295.