Quick Facts About Bertolt Brecht
- Born
- February 10, 1898
- Died
- August 14, 1956
- Nationality
- German Democratic Republic
- Profession
- Librettist
- Notable works
- Madre Coraje y Sus Hijos
- Known for
- Mother Courage and Her Children, The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
- Spouse
- Marianne Zoff
About Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 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 and the Verfremdungseffekt.
Biography source:
Wikipedia
