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Bertolt Brecht
Augsburg, Germany
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 ag…
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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, 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bertolt Brecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
The Good Person of Szechwan
Movie Writer
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2025
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
Movie Theatre Play
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2024
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
Movie Writer
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2024
The Change of the Wheel
Movie Novel
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2022
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
Movie Lui-même
- 2021
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2020
The Good Man from Szechuan
Movie Writer
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2020
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
Movie Story
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2019
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Movie Writer
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2019
Brecht
TV show Himself (archive footage)
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2019
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
Movie Himself (archive footage)
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2018
Trommeln in der Nacht
Movie Theatre Play
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2016
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
Movie Musical
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2013
Marianne
Movie Writer
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2012
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
Movie Writer
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2011
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Movie Lyricist
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- 2009
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2008
Theater of War
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2007
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Movie Book
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2007
Canção de Baal
Movie Lyricist
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2006
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Baal
Movie Novel
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2002
Le cercle de craie caucasien
Movie Author
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2002
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
TV show Self (archive footage)
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2000
The Threepenny Opera
Movie Book
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2000
The Seduction of Angels
Movie Poem
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1998
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Movie Writer
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1997
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Movie Theatre Play
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1996
The Career of Arturo Ui
Movie Theatre Play
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1995
The Threepenny Opera
Movie Music
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1993
The Seven Deadly Sins
Movie Writer
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1992
Antigone
Movie Theatre Play
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1992
La vie de Galilée
Movie Author
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1990
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
Movie Self (archive footage)
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1989
Mack the Knife
Movie Original Story
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1989
Der Mantel des Ketzers
Movie Story
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1989
Мещанская свадьба
Movie Story
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1988
Die Bestie
Movie Story
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1987
Der springende Punkt
Movie
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1985
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Movie Writer
