ITINERÁRIO DA PEÇA O VOO SOBRE O OCEANO DE BERTOLT BRECHT

ENTRE A HOMENAGEM E O CANCELAMENTO

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the itinerary of the play Der Ozeanflug: radiolehrstück für Knaben und Madchen (The Flight Across the Ocean), written and staged for the first time in the years of 1927 and 1928 by the german playwright Bertolt Brecht as of his aesthetic and political assumptions. Having as a starting point the notion of learning play as a play for learning, according to Jeanne-Marie Gagnebin, as well as the notions of Spielraum (“play space”) by Walter Benjamin, it is discussed how the didactic exercises dialog and enhance the trajectory of the play from its background - the social and aesthetical scene of the german national socialism, apart from establishing a parallel in between the title of the play and its content and the cancel culture of the contemporary scenario in a reading exercise that embodies the observer’s point of view, fundamental attitude for Brecht’s exercises.