Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German Marxist poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East Berlin in 1949. He, along with his partner, Helene Weigel, founded the theatre company, Berliner Ensemble. Some of his most famous plays are The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children, Life of Galileo, The Good Person of Szechwan, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

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