Profile: Various translations of Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife"

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Profile: Various translations of Bertolt Brecht's "Mack the Knife"

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The celebration of what would have been Kurt Weill's 100th birthday this past week reminded us of a story about one of his most popular songs. Eleven years ago, Bob Mondello found a lyricist undertaking the daunting task of translating the words of Weill's collaborator, Bertolt Brecht. The transition from German to English was difficult to begin with and seemingly impossible when an earlier translation was already so familiar. This from the ...

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