German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
"Brecht" redirects here. For other uses, see Brecht (disambiguation).
Bertolt Brecht
Brecht in 1954
Born
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-02-10)10 February 1898 Augsburg, Bavaria, German Empire
Died
14 August 1956(1956-08-14) (aged 58) East Berlin, East Germany
Occupation
Playwright
theatre director
poet
Genre
Epic theatre
non-Aristotelian drama
Literary movement
Non-Aristotelian drama
Notable works
The Threepenny Opera
Life of Galileo
Mother Courage and Her Children
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Mr Puntila and his Man Matti
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Spouses
Marianne Zoff
(m. 1922; div. 1927)
Helene Weigel
(m. 1930)
Children
Frank Banholzer
Hanne Hiob
Stefan Brecht
Barbara Brecht-Schall
Relatives
Walter Brecht (younger brother)
Signature
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht,[a] 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 Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
During the Nazi Germany period, Brecht fled his home country, first to Scandinavia, and during World War II to the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI.[3] After the war he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.[4]
^"Brecht, Bertolt". Lexico UK English Dictionary. Oxford University Press.[dead link]
^Willett 1990, pp. 312–313.
^The introduction of this article draws on the following sources: Banham (1998, p. 129); Bürger (1984, pp. 87–92); Jameson (1998, pp. 43–58); Kolocotroni, Goldman & Taxidou (1998, pp. 465–466); Williams (1993, pp. 277–290); Wright (1989, pp. 68–89, 113–137).
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