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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Hanns Eisler (section Early years and Bertolt Brecht)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Threepenny Opera (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century...
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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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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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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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Die Lösung (category Works by Bertolt Brecht)
([diː ˈløːzʊŋ], "The Solution") is a famous satirical German poem by Bertolt Brecht about the East German uprising of 1953. Written in mid-1953, it is critical...
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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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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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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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Helene Weigel (redirect from Helene Weigel-Brecht)
a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956. Together they...
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Barbara Brecht-Schall (28 October 1930 – 31 August 2015) was a German actress. Brecht was born in Berlin to Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, she had three...
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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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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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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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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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British politician Winston Churchill praised the book in a review. Bertolt Brecht took up the theme of terrible working conditions at the Chicago Stockyards...
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the modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht of the English 17th-century tragedy of the same name by William Shakespeare. Brecht wrote it sometime between...
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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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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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Einheitsfrontlied (category Songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht)
most famous songs of the German labour movement. It was written by Bertolt Brecht and composed by Hanns Eisler. The best-known rendition was sung by Ernst...
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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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