Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright...
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Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis (English: "Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize") is a literary award in Augsburg, Germany, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht. It...
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Karl Valentin (section With Bertolt Brecht)
Chaplin of Germany". His work has an essential influence on artists like Bertolt Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Loriot and Helge Schneider. Karl Valentin came from...
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Epic theatre (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
Robert. 2017. "Brecht, interruptions, and epic theatre". Brecht, Bertolt. 1949. "A Short Organum for the Theatre". Trans. John Willett. In Brecht (1964, 179–205)...
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stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work, The Threepenny...
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Jean-Luc Godard (section Bertolt Brecht)
engagement with German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht stems primarily from his attempt to transpose Brecht's theory of epic theatre and its prospect...
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national anthem of East Germany, for his long artistic association with Bertolt Brecht, and for the scores he wrote for films. The Hochschule für Musik Hanns...
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Mother Courage and Her Children (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin....
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Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang...
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include: Morten Bertolt (born 1984), Danish footballer Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), German theatre practitioner, playwright and poet Bertolt Flick (born 1964)...
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Definitions of fascism (section Bertolt Brecht)
particularly reactionary or otherwise exceptional. German playwright Bertolt Brecht describes fascism as: "a historic phase of capitalism" and "...the nakedest...
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Edward II (play) (section Bertolt Brecht's adaptation)
adapted by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger in 1923 as The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduards des Zweiten von England). The Brecht version,...
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Therese Giehse (section With Bertolt Brecht)
exile, Giehse played the first Mother Courage in the world premiere of Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children, in 1941 at the Schauspielhaus...
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in a 16-minute (one-reeler) slapstick, "surreal comedy" written by Bertolt Brecht with cabaret and stage actors Karl Valentin, Liesl Karlstadt, Erwin...
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also maintained formative friendships with thinkers such as playwright Bertolt Brecht and Kabbalah scholar Gershom Scholem. He was related to German political...
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Mack the Knife (category Songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
von Mackie Messer") is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera (German: Die Dreigroschenoper)...
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The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
subtitled "A parable play", is a 1941 play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. It chronicles the rise of Arturo Ui, a fictional 1930s Chicago mobster...
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Mother (German: Die Mutter) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It is based on Maxim Gorky's 1906 novel of the same name. It was written...
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Life of Galileo (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
also known as Galileo, is a play by the 20th century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht and collaborator Margarete Steffin with incidental music by Hanns Eisler...
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The Good Person of Szechwan (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
The Good Man of Setzuan) is a play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin and Ruth Berlau. The play was...
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Helene Weigel (redirect from Helene Weigel-Brecht)
actress and artistic director. She was the second and last wife of Bertolt Brecht until his death in 1956; together they had two children. Weigel was...
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Alabama Song (category Songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
Bar"—is an English version of a song[clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann...
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Distancing effect (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
is a concept in performing arts credited to German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht first used the term in his essay "Alienation Effects in Chinese...
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Lion Feuchtwanger (section Association with Brecht)
of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Judaism and fierce criticism of the Nazi Party, years...
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Baal (play) (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual...
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John Willett (section Brecht)
translator and a scholar who is remembered for translating the work of Bertolt Brecht into English. Willett was born in Hampstead and was educated at Winchester...
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
Kreidekreis) is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. An example of Brecht's epic theatre, the play is a parable about a peasant girl...
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producer, and screenwriter. Born in Wisconsin, he studied in Germany with Bertolt Brecht and then returned to the United States. Blacklisted by Hollywood in...
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Drums in the Night (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
(German: Trommeln in der Nacht) is a play by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Brecht wrote it between 1919 and 1920, and it received its first theatrical...
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Berliner Ensemble theatre company, founded in 1949 by Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. The original name of the Neo-baroque construction by the architect...
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