During the Weimar Republic, Brecht was not only present with his plays and poetry, but he also drew public attention to himself as a storyteller through widely disseminated newspaper publications of short stories. Brecht's stories exhibit all the characteristics of modern narration, but they are presented in a more contradictory and playful (even ironic) manner than the prose of classical modernism (e.g., Rilke, Döblin, Musil). With these texts, Brecht introduced a new type of short story modeled after the Anglo-American style into modern German literature, which is worth rediscovering.