NMLP P-041912 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)

Bertolt Brecht · Universal-Edition, Vienna–Leipzig · 1928

The decisive title-page point is the credit line 'übersetzt von Elisabeth Hauptmann / deutsche Bearbeitung von Bert Brecht / Musik von Kurt Weill' — the Hauptmann translation credit is present on this first published text and is progressively suppressed in later editions, where the front cover carries Brecht's name alone

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-041912 for "The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)" by Bertolt Brecht (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-041912, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).