Reminiscence of Marie A.

is a 1920 poem by German poet and playwright Bertold Brecht (1889-1956) that was first published in his collection Die Hauspostille (1927).

Brecht wrote the poem in his notebook on 21 February 1920 on a train to Berlin.

[1] The poem is a reminiscence of time spent with a former lover and a kiss beneath a plum tree remembered only because of the memory of a passing white cloud.

The poem's first stanza was read voice-over in the Oscar-winning 2006 German film The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen), by the character of Stasi Captain Gerd Wiesler (played by Ulrich Mühe), lying back uncomfortably on his sofa: One day in blue-moon September silent under a plum tree I held her, my silent pale love in my arms like a fair and lovely dream.. And above us in the summer sky was a cloud that caught my eye.

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