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    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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    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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    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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    relationships with thinkers and cultural figures such as the cabaret playwright Bertolt Brecht (friend), Martin Buber (an early impresario in his career), Nazi constitutionalist...
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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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  • particularly reactionary or otherwise exceptional. German playwright Bertolt Brecht describes fascism as: "a historic phase of capitalism" and "...the nakedest...
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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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    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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  • Baal (EP) (category Adaptations of works by Bertolt Brecht)
    recordings of songs written for Bertolt Brecht’s play Baal. It is sometimes referred to as David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht's Baal, as credited on the sleeve...
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    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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    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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    The Threepenny Opera (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
    Dreigroschenoper [diː dʁaɪˈɡʁɔʃn̩ˌʔoːpɐ]) is a 1928 German "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century...
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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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    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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  • Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis (English: "Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize") is a literary award in Augsburg, Germany, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht. It...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    theater. In the theater, Brown was cast in the 2002 production of Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui starring Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti...
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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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    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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  • Historicization (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
    modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht. In his poem "Speech to Danish working-class actors on the art of observation", Brecht offers a vivid portrait...
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  • Non-Aristotelian drama (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
    in his Poetics (c.335 BCE) The German modernist theatre practitioner Bertolt Brecht coined the term 'non-Aristotelian drama' to describe the dramaturgical...
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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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    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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    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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  • Gestus (category Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques)
    2008). Bertolt Brecht. Routledge. ISBN 9781134188062 – via Google Books. Willett (1964, 42). Wright (1989, 27). Brecht (1949, 200). Brecht (1949, 196)...
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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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