Are the characters mentioned in the song “Mack the Knife” based on real people?
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Are the characters mentioned in the song “Mack the Knife” based on real people?
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The song is from the German “The Threepenny Opera” and refers to MacHeath (or Mackie Messer), who was a violent pimp. Jenny Diver. Lucy Brown and Suky Tawdry are other characters in the opera, all prostitutes. Lotte Lenya was in reality the wife of the composer of the opera, Kurt Weill and her name was attached to a character in an off-Broadway production. Louie Miller represents a would-be client of one of the prostitutes, who is murdered by MacHeath after drawing out money.
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Are the characters mentioned in the song “Mack the Knife” based on real people?
No, they are not.
The Ballad of Mack the Knife is the opening song from The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht. The protagonist of the play is a character called Macheath (Mack the Knife). He in turn was based on the character Macheath from John Gay’s Beggar’s Opera . Gay’s character was a dashing romantic villain while Brecht’s was a much darker character.
In the first production of The Threepenny Opera Macheath was played by Harald Paulsen. To Brecht’s annoyance Paulsen played Macheath as a bit of a dandy. Added to that Paulsen wanted Brecht to write a new song to introduce Macheath.
Brecht wrote a new song at the last minute, but he did not give it to Paulsen to sing. Instead he had a different character sing about Macheath. In order to show the audience the true nature of Macheath Brecht wrote about him as a vicious murderer. arsonist and rapist.
Some of the popular reinterpretations of the song (Louis Armstrong for example) have emphasized the jaunty tune and seem to have ignored the content of the lyrics.
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