The prominent theater scholar Hans-Thies Lehmann has engaged with Bertolt Brecht for decades. At the center of the essays collected here is the theater author and theater thinker. They aim to revise still prevalent prejudices about Brecht and to make a "different" Brecht visible beyond the political, literary, and theater aesthetic clichés. In addition to the practice and theory of epic theater, the so-called teaching plays are discussed, particularly their potential for the theater of the future. The poetry is extensively included, often shedding new light on the theater texts. Further investigations focus on the connections of Brecht's work to authors such as Beckett, Celan, Adorno, Benjamin, and Althusser, as well as central motifs of Brecht like death, forgetting, and expenditure, along with Brecht the adapter and the reception of Brecht.