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German - and Russian literature professor Pierre Garaud and his wife Elisabeth host an intimate party, where her brother Vincent announces he and his partner Anna Caravati are finally expecting an baby, then shocks everyone, having chosen the Hitlerian name Adolf. It starts a cycle of disbelief and reproaches, with more secret thrown in, like Anna's affair with best friend Claude Gatignol, both also guests. Before Vincent retracts the 'joke', much harm is done.

TV recording of the stage play after the book "Alle Sieben Wellen" by Daniel Glattauer.

German language adaptation of Neil Simon's "The Sunshine Boys", made for Austrian TV.

In 1928, 200 years after the London premiere of John Gay's "Beggar's Opera", Bertolt Brecht edited a new translation for the opening of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and, at Lion Feuchtwanger's suggestion, gave the play the title The Threepenny Opera. Kurt Weill's music contains elements of jazz and light music, of church and opera melodies - the audience at the premiere reacts icily at first, then enthusiastically: the evening becomes a triumph, the greatest theatrical success of the 1920s and is only taken off the schedule in 1933 - under pressure Joseph Goebbels' Nazi Propaganda Ministry.