Bertolt Brecht

Known for WritingBorn 1898-02-10Died 1956-08-14Augsburg, 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. 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.Read more

Movies & web series

La vie de Galilée

The Life Story of Baal

Im Dickicht der Städte

Leben des Galilei

O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro

Das Jahrhundert des Theaters

The Career of Arturo Ui

The Threepenny Opera

Film Emigration from Nazi Germany

Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar

Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten

Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble

Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti

Anna Firling's Roads

Der kaukasische Kreidekreis

I Was, I Am, I Will Be

The Seven Deadly Sins

Mother Courage and Her Children

Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell

Mahagonny

Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti

Mack the Knife

Leben des Galilei

The Shameless Old Lady

The 3 Penny Opera

Germany Pale Mother

Hangmen Also Die!

Death of the Flea Circus Director

Theater of War

The Threepenny Opera

Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?

The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny

Antigone

History Lessons

Song of the Rivers

Galileo

No. 18: Mahagonny

The Seduction of Angels

The Change of the Wheel

A Man's a Man

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

Brecht

The Threepenny Opera

Baal

Baal

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop

BBC Play of the Month

The Murderers Are Coming