The play is based on stories by Hella Wuolijokis. Brecht has created a comedy in the classical sense about the alcoholic landowner and his driver. It is done with a comic fantasy and a lyric expressiveness the counterpart of which is not found in modern theater.
(Berlin version, 1949) – The term of copyright for this version, with music by Paul Dessau, expires on 31 December 2049.
