Bertolt Brecht
Writing
Born 1898-02-10
Died 1956-08-14
Augsburg, Germany
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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 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.
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Filmography
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Writing
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Hangmen Also Die!
Marianne
Im Dickicht der Städte
Schweik in World War II
Mack the Knife
No. 18: Mahagonny
The Threepenny Opera
Song of the Rivers
History Lessons
Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti
The 3 Penny Opera
The Good Person of Szechwan
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
Baal
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
The Shameless Old Lady
Baal
Baal
The Threepenny Opera
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Der Mantel des Ketzers
The Seven Deadly Sins
The Good Man from Szechuan
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
Мещанская свадьба
An den kleinen Radioapparat
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Brecht and Co
Acting
36 credits
BBC Play of the Month
Hangmen Also Die!
The Threepenny Opera
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
Brecht
The Threepenny Opera
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
Canção de Baal
Galileo
Svatba
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
The 3 Penny Opera
Theater of War
Trommeln in der Nacht
Trummor i natten
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
Pušky paní Carrarové
The Life Story of Baal
Life of Galileo
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
Baal
Germany Pale Mother
The Tailor of Ulm
The Threepenny Opera
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Zadržitelný vzestup Artura Uie
Antigone
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
An den kleinen Radioapparat
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Seduction of Angels
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