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1. Brecht, Bertolt Brechtnoun

   German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)

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1. Bertolt Brecht

   Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt 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 Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt. During the Nazi Germany period, Brecht fled his home country, first to Scandinavia, and during World War II to the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI. After the war he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.

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   Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a renowned German playwright, poet, director, and theorist best known for his contributions to Epic Theater and his plays, which include "Mother Courage and Her Children", "The Threepenny Opera" and "Life of Galileo". He developed a style of theatrical production that was both didactic and engaging, hoping to inspire audiences to think critically about societal issues rather than getting lost in emotional melodrama. Brecht's method of breaking the fourth wall to create a detached, thoughtful response to the action on stage became known as the "Verfremdungseffekt" or "alienation effect". His work remains influential in both theatre production and theory.

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1. Bertolt Brecht

   Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist. A theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.

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