Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder)

The German original has precedence over every translation; the census claim is correct as to publisher, city and year. Suhrkamp Verlag (vormals S. Fischer), Berlin/Frankfurt, 1949 = the true first. Correction to a common assumption: the Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin issues of Versuche Heft 9 are NOT a simultaneous East/West twin — they follow Suhrkamp at a remove, the earliest Aufbau Heft 9 recorded in the trade being 1952. Both editions are collected, but Suhrkamp 1949 is the first. On the English side, both the US and UK editions are collected and both are Eric Bentley's translation: the first English-language book appearance is in 'The Modern Theatre, Volume Two', ed./trans. Eric Bentley (Doubleday Anchor, Garden City, 1955), a paperback series volume; Methuen (London) issued the Bentley translation as a separate volume in 1962. Both are translations of a 1949 German first and are 'first thus', not firsts of the work.