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    Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the...
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  • could be completed. This was the feature film debut of German director Erwin Piscator. The film deals with a strike among the workers of the Bredel shipping...
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    Maria Ley-Piscator (born Friederike Flora Czada, 1 August 1898 – 14 October 1999) is best known as the wife of Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), Germany's famous...
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    "epic theatre" comes from Erwin Piscator who coined it during his first year as director of Berlin's Volksbühne (1924–27). Piscator aimed to encourage playwrights...
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  • Look up piscator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Erwin Piscator was a German theatre director and producer. Piscator may also refer to: Piscator (surname)...
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  • Social Research in New York City. The German expatriate stage director Erwin Piscator began a long association with the school in 1940. Among the faculty...
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    inspired by War and Peace. Initiated by a proposal of the German director Erwin Piscator in 1938, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed his opera War...
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    conflicts with society. Erwin Piscator, 1929. In 1927 Brecht became part of the "dramaturgical collective" of Erwin Piscator's first company, which was...
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    stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. John Heartfield was born Helmut Herzfeld on 19 June 1891 in Berlin-Schmargendorf...
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    theatre director Erwin Piscator staged the play at his "proletarian Volksbühne" (a rival to the Volksbühne), in Berlin. "Our intention," Piscator writes, "was...
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    operetta stage until in 1927, Erwin Piscator and Tilla Durieux opened their Theater am Nollendorfplatz in the building. Piscator created critical performances...
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    of The New School in New York with the influential German director Erwin Piscator, and afterward joined the Actors Studio.[citation needed] Gazzara guest-starred...
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    Garfein took classes in acting with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. Among his classmates were Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Rod Steiger...
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    (1930), which concerns the issue of abortion, and which was directed by Erwin Piscator. Kitchen sink drama Problem novel Problem picture Social novel Very...
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    costuming with the New School of Social Research Dramatic Workshop, led by Erwin Piscator. Later, while living in New York in the 1940s and 1950s, she variously...
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    1950, Parfrey married Rosa Ellovich and trained under acting teacher Erwin Piscator at the New School for Social Research. Parfrey died of a heart attack...
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    acting at the Dramatic Workshop of The New School with German director Erwin Piscator. He often joked that his best early review came in a play where he posed...
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  • and director, Stella Adler began to teach in the early 1940s at the Erwin Piscator Workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York. She left...
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    Dreiser agreed that German director Erwin Piscator should produce a stage version of An American Tragedy. Piscator's stage adaptation premiered in Vienna...
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  • Germany, where she appeared at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin [de], under Erwin Piscator. Eva Christian, in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1987. March...
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  • of the zhivaya gazeta, or living newspaper. Meanwhile, in Germany, Erwin Piscator was experimenting with incorporating documentary film footage and other...
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  • of them in close collaboration with famous German theatre director Erwin Piscator in 1947. The story was adapted for radio by NBC University Theatre and...
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    Mann, Ludwig Marcuse, Karl Marx, Robert Musil, Carl von Ossietzky, Erwin Piscator, Alfred Polgar, Gertrud von Puttkamer, Erich Maria Remarque, Ludwig...
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    the New School in New York City with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. He later became a founding member of the Actors Studio, taught by Lee...
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  • Dramatic Workshop of The New School in New York with the German director Erwin Piscator and helped start a theater cooperative at the Cherry Lane Theater and...
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    Dramatic Workshop of the New School, with influential German director Erwin Piscator. In a 1988 documentary, Marlon Brando: The Wild One, Brando's sister...
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    School in Greenwich Village under the influential German stage director Erwin Piscator. His contemporaries included Elaine Stritch, Harry Belafonte, Walter...
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    Its second production, directed by the seminal epic theatre director Erwin Piscator in 1927, was a milestone in the history of theatre. The British playwright...
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  • (Free People's Theater) on February 20, 1963 under the direction of Erwin Piscator. Within the same year, the play was produced at additional theatres...
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    go on to start his own record label and work with Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator at the "Berliner Ensemble". A beloved figure in the German Democratic...
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