Bertolt Brecht, born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet who came of age during the Weimar Republic and had his first successes as a playwright in Munich before moving to Berlin in 1924. There he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with composer Hanns Eisler, becoming a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt. When the Nazis took power in 1933 he fled Germany, eventually settling in Southern California, where he worked as a screenwriter while under FBI surveillance and was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. He returned to Europe the day after testifying, eventually settling in East Berlin, where he co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife, actress Helene Weigel. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht ... known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
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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.
Award: National Prize of East 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.
Award: International Stalin Prize for Peace
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.
Award: star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
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.
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Mother Courage and Her Children...is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht.
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