Writer

Bertolt Brecht

1898 – 1956

Active years (films on this site)

1931–1973

Genres

DramaComedyCrimeHistory

Schools and movements

German ExpressionismNew German CinemaSlow and Contemplative Cinema

Directors worked with

G.W. Pabst1 filmJean-Marie Straub1 film

Biography

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 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 and the Verfremdungseffekt.

Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)

Awards and honours

International

• International Stalin Prize for Peace
• star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

National / local

• National Prize of East Germany

2 films on this site

1. The Threepenny Opera 1931 · G.W. Pabst · IMDb 7.2 · Writer
2. History Lessons 1973 · Jean-Marie Straub · IMDb 6.6 · Writer