Bertolt Brecht

(1898-1956)

German poet, playwright, and theatre director

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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 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.

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Born	Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht 10 February 1898 Augsburg, Germany
Died	14 August 1956 (aged 58) Berlin, Germany
Zodiac	Aquarius
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