Bertolt Brecht
- Bert Brecht
- Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht
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- Brecht, Bertolt
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Date of birth
- 1898-02-10
- Place of birth
- Augsburg
- Date of death
- 1956-08-14
- Place of death
- Berlin
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California where he established himself as a screenwriter, and meanwhile was being surveilled by the FBI. In 1947, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged Communist Party affiliations. The day after testifying, he returned to Europe, eventually settling in East Berlin where he co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.
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German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
Last modified: 2020-08-09 (revision #19594)
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- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Brecht als Objekt und Subjekt der Kritik
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Ein Klassiker zwischen Klassiken
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Ein Thron der Dichtung ist verwaist: Zum Tode Bertolt Brechts
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Ulm (1592)
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Kinderhymne
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Vergnügungen
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Hans Lody
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Der Aufstieg Brechts in den Weltruhm
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Ich mag Brecht nicht
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Die gute Nacht
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Er wird bleiben
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Wie es war
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Lektüreschlüssel: Bertolt Brecht - Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Bert Brecht(Willy Haas)
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Brecht für hier und heute und für morgen
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Berlin, Chausseestrasse 125
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Die Verurteilung des Brechtbertus (Nach Bertolt Brecht)
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Stoff und Form in "Leben des Galilei"
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Nicht trotz - wegen seiner Weltanschauung!
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Die Maßnahme
- Bertolt Brecht has/had a collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann(German writer)
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Die zwei Söhne
- Bertolt Brecht wrote An Chronos
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Herr Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Baal
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Begegnung mit Bert Brecht
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Mein Brecht: Erinnerungen
- Bertolt Brecht wrote Der Radwechsel
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Tavola Rotonda in Venedig über die Theaterarbeit Brechts
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Brecht nicht nur für Brechtianer: Antwort auf eine Umfrage
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of "Jetzt entfernt die Mauer! sagte der Soldat"
- Bertolt Brecht is the subject of Nachdenken über Brecht
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