Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 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 and the Verfremdungseffekt.
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Background
- Born in
- Augsburg
- Educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- Awards
- 🏆 star on Playwrights' Sidewalk🏆 National Prize of East Germany🏆 International Stalin Prize for Peace
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Trending topics shown first"Sometimes I have visions of myself driving through hell, selling sulphur and brimstone, or through heaven peddling refreshments to the roaming souls. If me and the children I've got left could find a …"
"The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one’s thinking."
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1898
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