Берлинер ансамбль
"Die Dreigroschenoper" and "Happy End" premiered in Berlin in 1928 and 1929 respectively, both at the Schiffbauerdamm Theatre, but twenty years before the founding of the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht wrote no new plays for the Berliner Ensemble, but remounted previously staged plays, premiering with "Mother Courage and Her Children" in 1949. He also directed "The Caucasian Chalk Circle", and with Erich Engel, "Life of Galileo". After Brecht's death, 3 plays, "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui", "Schweik in the Second World War", and "The Visions of Simone Machard", had their premieres with the Ensemble.