Bold Mother and Her Children is the work of German writer Bertolt Brecht, published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House on 20 1 1 year 1 1 month. The author wrote it during her exile in Sweden at the end of 1939. It is a work that serves the anti-fascist struggle. It tells the story of Anna Ferlin, the heroine who is known as the "bold mother". She took her two sons, Sargam, and followed the army with a van to peddle, and regarded war as a means of making a living and a source of wealth.
Historical background:
After Hitler gained the party and government power and the highest military command in 1938, he made personnel arrangements and adopted a series of tough measures in internal affairs and diplomacy in order to realize his intention of aggression and expansion. In order to protect themselves, the western capitalist countries signed a non-aggression treaty with Germany in an attempt to restrain Hitler's aggressive ambition, and on the other hand, they sold a lot of steel to Germany for making war weapons.
Brecht's purpose in creating this play is to warn western governments to give up their "neutral and non-interference policy" towards Germany and not to fantasize about making any profits in doing business with Germany. As he said, "If you want to have breakfast with the devil, you must have a long spoon."
/kloc-in the summer of 0/939, the Swedish actress Manet Weaver strand recited a narrative poem "Rota Swede" to Brecht by the Finnish Swedish writer Johann Ludwig Ruenberg.
This narrative poem is based on the Swiss-Russian war at the beginning of the19th century, and describes the experience of a businesswoman who joined the army. Lotta Wilder is the prototype of the role of bold mother, but she has little in common with Brecht's role of bold mother, just treating her as an army peddler.