Berliner Ensemble

Stripling: Mr Brecht, would you mind stating your personal particulars, your name, address, birth date and place etc. to put on record?
Brecht: My name is...
Stripling: Speak in the microphone, please.
Brecht: My name is Bertolt Brecht.
Stripling: Spell your name, please.
Brecht: spells BERTOLT BRECHT.
Stripling: Where do you live?
Brecht: I live number 34 Seventy-third Street West, New York.
Stripling: Where were you born?
Brecht: I was born in Augsburg, Germany, the 10th of February 1898.
Stripling: The Committee has… Could you repeat your birth date?
Brecht: February 10 1898.
Stripling: 1898?
Brecht: 1898.
Stripling: I think particulars from the immigration office state it was 1888.
Brecht: I beg your pardon?
Stripling: I need to check whether details from the Immigration Office are correct…
Brecht: I was born in 1898.
Stripling: Mr Brecht, do you wish to use an interpreter?
Brecht: Yes, I would like an interpreter.
Stripling: Call the interpreter.

Stripling: Mr Baumgardt, do you swear you will diligently, and with exactitude, translate all of the questions that witness Bertolt Brecht will be asked, and that you will equally diligently and with exactitude translate all of his anwers; will you swear this unto God?
Baumgardt: Unto God.
Stripling: You may take a seat.