Bertolt Brecht
Writing · Born 1898-02-10 · age 58 at death · Augsburg, Germany
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 lifelong 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 while 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bertolt Brecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Titles
Hangmen Also Die!
The 3 Penny Opera
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
The Shameless Old Lady
Germany Pale Mother
Baal
Antigone
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
Galileo
The Threepenny Opera
Baal
Baal
History Lessons
BBC Play of the Month
Mack the Knife
Death of the Flea Circus Director
Anna Firling's Roads
A Man's a Man
The Seduction of Angels
The Murderers Are Coming
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage and Her Children
Der Hofmeister
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
No. 18: Mahagonny
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
Song of the Rivers
Canção de Baal
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
The Threepenny Opera
Im Dickicht der Städte
Mahagonny
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Career of Arturo Ui
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar
Leben des Galilei
La vie de Galilée
The Change of the Wheel
The Tailor of Ulm
The Life Story of Baal
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Leben des Galilei
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The Good Man from Szechuan
Schweik in World War II
Trommeln in der Nacht
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui