Colaborou com Bertolt Brecht em finais da década de 1920 na produção e criação de óperas e musicais, como Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Ascensão e Queda da Cidade de Mahagonny), Die Dreigroschenoper (A Ópera dos Três Vintens) e (Die sieben Todsünden) Os Sete Pecados Mortais.
1934: Complainte de la Seine, texto de Maurice Magre
1939: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
1942: Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
1942-44: Propaganda Songs
Bibliografia
David Drew. Kurt Weill: A Handbook (Berkeley, Los Angeles, University of California Press, 1987). ISBN 0-520-05839-9.
Kim H. Kowalke. A New Orpheus: Essays on Kurt Weill (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986). ISBN 0-300-03514-4.
Ronald Sanders. The Days Grow Short: The Life and Music of Kurt Weill (New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980). ISBN 0-03-019411-3.
Donald Spoto. Lenya A Life (Little, Brown and Company 1989)
Lys Symonette & Kim H. Kowalke (ed. & trans.) Speak Low (When You Speak Love): The Letters of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya (University of California Press 1996)
(em alemão) David Drew (Editor), Über Kurt Weill (Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkamp, 1975) Excellent collection of texts, including an introduction by David Drew and including texts by Theodor W. Adorno
(em alemão) Jürgen Schebera, Kurt Weill (Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg, 2000)