2694) Bertolt Brecht, Federal Republic of Germany: 125th Birth Anniversary (1898 - 1956): A 20 Euro Silver Coin celebrates the playwright's Birth Anniversary: Date/Year of Coin issue: 09.02.2023:
The Header/Banner showcases the Obverse and Reverse of the 20 Euro Silver Coins, against a background representation of a right facing photograpf of Bertolt Brecht. The logo of the Munze Deutschland (German Mint) is at left bottom.
The German Ministry of Finance and Munze Deutschland have brought out €20 Silver Coins celebrating the 125th Anniversary of the birth of one of the country’s leading playwrights and poets.
Bertold Brecht (1898–1956):
He is remembered as one of Germany’s most successful playwrights and poets whose contribution to modern German theatre is widely acknowledged.
Born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht in Augsburg, he had originally embarked on a career in medicine, but while living in Bavaria and after serving in a military hospital from 1917 until 1921, Brecht dropped out of medical school.
He took up work as a director and drama coach in Munich and Berlin, and at the same time, he became a freelance writer.
Brecht had several early successes to his credit which included plays, poems, and songs, but it was during this period in his career that he also developed an antibourgeois attitude.
This anti-establishment sentiment reflected his generation’s deep disappointment over the outcome of the First World War.
Brecht celebrated his first international success with his play "The Threepenny Opera", (with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler) which premiered in Berlin in 1928, but with Germany’s changing political scene and as Brecht was a communist sympathiser, his name was included on the National Socialists’ wanted list of subversives.
Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
By 1933, Brecht left Germany and sought refuge with family in Denmark, later living in Sweden, Finland, and eventually the USA, where he was surveilled by the FBI.
He returned to East Berlin after the war, where he established the theatre company "Berliner Ensemble" with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.
The Coin:
The circulation-quality coins have been minted by the German State Mint of Hamburg on behalf of the Ministry of Finance and have been designed by Katrin Pannicke. Her linear design is based on a photograph taken of Brecht by Gerda Goedhart.
On the Reverse of the $20 Silver Coin Brecht is shown with a trademark cigar in his right hand in an informal pose.
Above and along the upper edge is the text "125. GEBURTSTAG BERTOLT BRECHT" (“125th Birthday of Bertolt Brecht”).
Below the portrait is a quote attributed to Brecht "ÄNDERE DIE WELT, SIE BRAUCHT ES" (“Change the world, it needs it”), which is slanted and accompanied by a small cursive letter “b” for Brecht.
On the Obverse of the $20 Silver Coin is depicted a stylised linear eagle in the centre and similar in approach to match the portrait of Brecht on the obverse side.
The Coins’ Denomination of "20 EURO" and fineness of "SILBER 925" are inscribed below the eagle along with the year "2023" and a group of six, five-pointed stars shown on each side.
Above the eagle is the text denoting the name of the issuing country - "BUNDESREPUBLIK DEUTSCHLAND", which is placed on the upper periphery.
The mintmark “J” inscribed just above the eagle, denotes the Hamburg Mint.
The coins include an incused inscription on the edge which reads "DAS SCHICKSAL DES MENSCHEN IST DER MENSCH" (“Man’s Destiny is Man”).
The specifications of the two Coin variants are:
i) Uncirculated 20 Euro Silver Coin Variant:
Country of issue: Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); Date/Year of Coin issue: 09.02.2023; Denomination: 20 Euro; Metal Composition: .925 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 18.00 grams; Dameter/Size: 32.50 mm; Coin Quality: Uncirculated (U); Minted By: Hamburg Mint ("J" Mint Mark); Mintage: 120,000 pieces; Designed by: Katrin Pannicke.
i) Proof 20 Euro Silver Coin Variant:
Country of issue: Federal Republic of Germany (FRG); Date/Year of Coin issue: 09.02.2023; Denomination: 20 Euro; Metal Composition: .925 Fineness Silver (Ag); Weight: 18.00 grams; Dameter/Size: 32.50 mm; Coin Quality: Proof (P); Minted By: Hamburg Mint ("J" Mint Mark); Mintage: To Be Decided; Designed by: Katrin Pannicke.
- The Brilliant Uncirculated pieces are available for their face value at leading commercial banks and post office counters.
- The Proof-quality collector’s edition is available by visiting the website of Munze Deutschland.
- Towards the end of the year, the entire €20 coin collection consisting of four 2023-dated pieces will be available in Proof quality and as a set presented in an official blister-pak type folder.
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