Almost every study (for example, Fassmann, Haas, Dort, Weideli) which
has made use of the available material* —usually either
too intensively or too superficially—says that Brecht first appeared in
print, with both poetry and prose, during August, 1914, in a daily newspaper
in his native city, the Augsburger Neuesten
Nachrichten. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (which is his
real name) or Bert(h)old Eugen as he signed his material at that time, was
16 years old, attended the Augsburg Realgymnasium, the “Blue Cap,” and there
studied Latin with enthusiasm, French with distaste, and all other things
with unmistakable indifference. He does not seem to have been a frequent
source of pleasure to his teachers.
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