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Bertolt Brecht

Also known as Berŭtʻoltʻŭ Bŭrehitʻŭ, Pertōl Pirekcṭ, Mpertolt Mprecht, Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe, Pertōlṭ Pirekcṭ, Perṭōlṭ Pireṣṭ, Bertolt Breht, Bert Brecht

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

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Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director who lived from 1898 to 1956 and became one of the most influential figures in modern drama. He matters because he revolutionized how theatre could be used to make audiences think critically about society, rather than simply entertaining them passively.

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Person · Open Library

Works: 22

Top works

The Messingkauf Dialogues
Seven plays
Gedichte I. 1918-1929.
Die Geschafte Des Herrn Julius Caesar
Die Driegroschenoper

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: Germany
Active from: 1898-02-10
Active to: 1956-08-14

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Discography

Discogs

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 13,233
Total plays: 101,035

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

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Authority record · VIAF

Lifespan: 1898–1956
Nationality: DE, US, SE, DK, DEU
Role / Field: Theatrical producers and directors, Screenwriters, Poets, Poetas, Playwright, Theater production and direction
Language: ger, deu
Gender: Male

Recorded by 47 libraries

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Quotes

“People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.”
“A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.”
“The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one's thinking.”
“Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I notAlways spoken the truth in my books? And nowYou treat me like a liar! I order you:Burn me!”
“Let nothing be called natural In an age of bloody confusion, Ordered disorder, planned caprice,And dehumanized humanity, lest all things Be held unalterable!”
“Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of.”

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Wikidata facts

Image: Bundesarchiv Bild 183-W0409-300, Bertolt Brecht.jpg

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birth name: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
pseudonym: Berthold Larsen
Commons category: Bertolt Brecht
date of birth: 1898-02-10
date of death: 1956-08-14
Commons gallery: Bertolt Brecht
name in native language: Bertolt Brecht
P8168: Rosa
P12674: Saraland
P12749: Markward von Annweiler

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Works in European collections

27 objects attributed to Bertolt Brecht, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Querschnitt aus der Oper: "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny"; I. Teil; II. Teil / (Kurt Weill). Text: Bert Brecht

Leben des Galilei

Bert Brecht an Arnold Bronnen: 12 Briefe und 6 Karten, teils eigenhändig, teils maschinengeschrieben, 1 Brief von Hessel-Burri und 1 Banknote mit eigenhändigen Zeilen - BSB Cgm 8075

A kaukázusi krétakör

Koldusopera

Kurázsi mama és gyermekei

Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. Oper in drei Akten von Brecht [Textbuch] Musik von Kurt Weill

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

Die Dreigroschenoper

Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit

Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder

Flüchtlingsgespräche

Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui

Mann ist Mann

Die Dreigroschenoper

Der gute Mensch von Sezuan

In der Fremde

Die Dreigroschenoper

Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti

Im Dickicht der Städte

Baal

Glut unter der Asche

Leben des Galilei

Handschriftlicher Brief Bertolt Brechts an Paula Banholzer, 16. April 1919 - SuStB Augsburg "BSX 1, Banholzer, Paula, 1919-04-16"

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Article

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.