Publisher/Eulenspiegel

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"Kriegsfibel" is a photobook by Bertolt Brecht, a famous German poet and playwright. Brecht was an artist who was active mainly before the war, known for works such as "The Threepenny Opera" and "The Life of Galileo". Influenced by the suffering he endured during politics and war, he advocated "narrative theater," which is a critical and objective view of a play, rather than empathizing with the characters. He is also famous as a theorist of the "alienation effect," which makes familiar things seem extraordinary and strange. This book is a photo-poem collection that this poet and playwright created over a period of more than 10 years since the war. Brecht, who was subject to many restrictions on his expressiveness during the war, used clippings from newspapers, magazines, and graphic magazines that were in circulation at the time, and added his own text as captions to create an "alienation effect," creating a "lyrical photo-poem collection." It is one of the unknown masterpieces that directly rejects the "photo story" stance. The first edition was published in 1955, and this book is a reprint in 1994. The text is in German.