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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, theatre director (1898-1956)
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1898
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1956
country of citizenship: German Empire, German Democratic Republic, Weimar Republic, Austria
languages spoken, written or signed: German
educated at: Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
occupation: playwright, lyricist, screenwriter, theatrical director, poet, librettist, literary critic, writer, author, film director, director
award received: National Prize of East Germany, International Lenin Prize for Peace

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt 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 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. 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.
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The Threepenny Opera
1928 musical play by Bertolt Brecht; provides a socialist critique of capitalism; adapted from John Gay's 18th-century ballad opera The Beggar's Opera with music by Kurt Weill and insertion ballads by François Villon and Rudyard Kipling
wd:Q212495author: Bertolt Brecht, Elisabeth Hauptmann
1931 or 1928
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Mother Courage and Her Children
play written by Bertolt Brecht
wd:Q62407author: Bertolt Brecht
1949
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Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
political-satirical opera composed by Kurt Weill to a German libretto by Bertolt Brecht
wd:Q760054author: Bertolt Brecht
2000
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
German play by Bertolt Brecht (1938)
wd:Q1474870author: Bertolt Brecht, Margarete Steffin
1938