By Matthias Ruoss
When it comes to war, Brecht helps. In particular, his play Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder, written in 1939 during his Swedish exile and premiered in 1941 at the Schauspielhaus Zurich, with its ambivalent characters…
About Matthias
Matthias Ruoss is co-leader of the SNF project “The Gender of Voluntarism: Renegotiating the Social Division of Labor since the 1970s,” based at the University of Fribourg. His main research and teaching interests include the history of capitalism, labor history and the social history of poverty.
