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 ==The original text==
-The first version was written in 1918 when Brecht was a student at Munich University, in reaction to ''[[Der Einsame]]'' ("The Loner"), an expressionist German play by Hanns Johst (1890-1978). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst], dramatizing  the life of playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe. Brecht's play tells the story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud
+The first version was written in 1918 when Brecht was a student at Munich University, in reaction to ''[[Der Einsame]]'' ("The Loner"), an expressionist German play by Hanns Johst (1890-1978). [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst], dramatizing  the life of playwright Christian Dietrich Grabbe (1801-1836)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Dietrich_Grabbe]. Brecht's play tells the story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud
 Written in a form of poetic prose, with four songs and a "Hymn of Baal the Great", the music composed by Brecht himself.

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 ==The original text==
-The first version was written in 1918 when Brecht was a student at Munich University, in reaction to ''[[Der Einsame]]'' ("The Loner"), an expressionist play by Hanns Johst (1890-1978)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst], and tells the story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud
+The first version was written in 1918 when Brecht was a student at Munich University, in reaction to ''[[Der Einsame]]'' ("The Loner"), an expressionist German play by Hanns Johst (1890-1978)[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Johst], and tells the story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud
 Written in a form of poetic prose, with four songs and a "Hymn of Baal the Great", the music composed by Brecht himself.
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 The text was first published in Potsdam by Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag in 1922.
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 The text was first published in Potsdam by Gustav Kiepenheuer Verlag in 1922.
 == Performance history in South Africa ==
 : Presented in [[Afrikaans]] by the [[University of Stellenbosch Drama Department]] in the [[H.B. Thom Theatre]] in October. Directed by [[Chris Vorster]], starring [[Abduragman Adams]], [[Keith Bain]], [[Nina Swart]], [[Ilse Oppelt]], and others. Stage manager [[Liezl Kritzinger]], Production manager [[Leopold Senekal]].
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