Writing
Bertolt Brecht
1898-02-10 · 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.
Known for
Hangmen Also Die!
The 3 Penny Opera
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
The Shameless Old Lady
Baal
Germany Pale Mother
Antigone
Galileo
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
The Threepenny Opera
Baal
Baal
History Lessons
BBC Play of the Month
Mack the Knife
Brecht
Movie credits · 99
The Good Person of Szechwan
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
The Change of the Wheel
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
The Good Man from Szechuan
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
Trommeln in der Nacht
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Marianne
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Theater of War
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Canção de Baal
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
Baal
Le cercle de craie caucasien
The Threepenny Opera
The Seduction of Angels
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
The Career of Arturo Ui
The Threepenny Opera
The Seven Deadly Sins
Antigone
La vie de Galilée
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
Mack the Knife
Der Mantel des Ketzers
Мещанская свадьба
Die Bestie
Der springende Punkt
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Anna Firling's Roads
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
TV credits · 5
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