Known For
Writing
Born
Feb 10, 1898
Died
Aug 14, 1956
Place of Birth
Augsburg, Germany
Credits
103 titles
Bertolt Brecht
Biography
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
Filmography
The Good Person of Szechwan
Writer
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
Theatre Play
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
Writer
The Change of the Wheel
Novel
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
Lui-même
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
Writer
The Good Man from Szechuan
Writer
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
Story
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Writer
Brecht
Himself (archive footage)
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
Himself (archive footage)
Trommeln in der Nacht
Theatre Play
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Musical
Marianne
Writer
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
Writer
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Lyricist
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Novel
Theater of War
Self (archive footage)
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Book
Canção de Baal
Theatre Play
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
Self (archive footage)
Baal
Novel
Le cercle de craie caucasien
Author
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Self (archive footage)
The Threepenny Opera
Music
The Seduction of Angels
Poem
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Writer
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Theatre Play
The Career of Arturo Ui
Theatre Play
The Threepenny Opera
Book
The Seven Deadly Sins
Writer
Antigone
Theatre Play
La vie de Galilée
Author
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
Self (archive footage)
Mack the Knife
Original Story
Der Mantel des Ketzers
Story
Мещанская свадьба
Story
Die Bestie
Story
Der springende Punkt
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Writer
Anna Firling's Roads
Theatre Play
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
Screenplay
Baal
Writer
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
Writer
Svatba
Theatre Play
Germany Pale Mother
Poem
No. 18: Mahagonny
Writer
The Tailor of Ulm
Poem
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Story
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Theatre Play