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    Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright...
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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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  • Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis (English: "Bertolt Brecht Literature Prize") is a literary award in Augsburg, Germany, birthplace of Bertolt Brecht. It...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    adapted by Bertolt Brecht and Lion Feuchtwanger in 1923 as The Life of Edward II of England (Leben Eduard des Zweiten von England). The Brecht version,...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • scholar of theatre. Brecht was born in Berlin to playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht and actress Helene Weigel. On September 26, 1944, he joined the United...
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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • The Decision (play) (category Plays by Bertolt Brecht)
    Lehrstück and agitprop cantata by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. Created in collaboration with composer Hanns Eisler and director Slatan...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    of: versions/translations by Friedrich Schiller, Karl Vollmöller and Bertolt Brecht; theatrical productions by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Max Reinhardt...
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