" This man wrote the lyrics to a song asking to "show us the way to the next whiskey bar"; that "Alabama Song" is sung by a troop of prostitutes in a play in which four Alaskan lumberjacks led by Jimmy Mahoney travel to the title city.
This author wondered in his poem "The Solution" whether it wouldn't be easier "for the government / To dissolve the people / And elect another?" This man wrote the lyrics to a song asking to "show us the way to the next whiskey bar"; that "Alabama Song" is sung by a troop of prostitutes in a play in which four Alaskan lumberjacks led by Jimmy Mahoney travel to the title city. The protagonist sings the "Cannon Song" with the police chief (*)  Tiger Brown in a play by this author of  The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . "Pirate Jenny" appears in a work by this man that opens with a song about a serial killer whose knife is like the "pearly white" of a shark's teeth, titled "Mack the Knife." For 10 points, name this German author who collaborated with Kurt Weill  (vile)  on  The Threepenny Opera .
This author wondered in his poem "The Solution" whether it wouldn't be easier "for the government /
Bertolt  Brecht  [or Eugen Bertolt Friedrich  Brecht ]