Bertolt Brecht, born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright and poet who came of age during the Weimar Republic. After early success as a playwright in Munich he 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, he wrote didactic Lehrstucke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt, developing a body of dramatic theory distinct from his own stage work.
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Though he had not been a member of the communist party, he had been deeply schooled in Marxism by the dissident communist Karl Korsch, and his communist allegiances were sincere.
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Though he had not been a member of the communist party, he had been deeply schooled in Marxism by the dissident communist Karl Korsch, and his communist allegiances were sincere.
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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.
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