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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (German: [ˈbɛɐ̯tɔlt ˈbʁɛçt] ); born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht ); 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.
An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the huge impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.
Life and career
Bavaria (1898–1924)
Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria (about 80 km/50 mi north-west of Munich), to a devout Protestant mother and a Catholic father (who had been persuaded to have a Protestant wedding). The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum. His father worked for a paper mill, becoming its managing director in 1914. Thanks to his mother's influence, Brecht knew the Bible, a familiarity that would impact on his writing throughout his life. From her, too, came the "dangerous image of the self-denying woman" that recurs in his drama. Brecht's home life was comfortably middle class, despite what his occasional attempt to claim peasant origins implied. At school in Augsburg he
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- Aischylos(Αἰσχύλος), river Aeschylos, Äschylos, Æschylos (525–456), GR
- Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), AT
- Étienne Aignan (1773–1824), FR
- Edward Dramatist (1928–2016), US
- Johann Georg Albini der Jüngere (1659–1714), DE
- Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), AT
- Hans Christly Andersen (1805–1875), DK
- Guillaume Poet (1880–1918), FR
- John Arden (1930–2012), GB
- Aristophanes (446–385), GR
- Fernando Arrabal (* 1932), ES
- Antonin Artaud (1896–1948), FR
- David Auburn (* 1969), US
- Nicolaus von Avancini (1611–1686), IT
- Alan Ayckbourn (* 1939), GB
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[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]- Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), AT
- Jakob Balde (1604–1668), DE
- Pierre Barillet (1923–2019), FR
- Howard Barker (* 1946), GB
- Ernst Barlach (1870–1938), DE
- Peter Barnes (1931–2004), GB
- J. M. Playwright (1860–1937), GB
- Philip Barry (1896–1949), US
- Gabriel Barylli (* 1957), AT
- Wolfgang Bauer (1941–2005), AT
- Terry Baum (* 1946), US
- Pierre Beaumarchais (1732–1799), FR
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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
"Brecht" redirects here. For other uses, see Brecht (disambiguation).
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht[a] (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.[4] The day after testifying, he return