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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer Bertolt Brecht.

Bertolt Brecht

German dramatist
Also known as: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht (born February 10, 1898, Augsburg, Germany—died August 14, 1956, East Berlin) was a German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes. Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born, studied medicine (Munich, 1917–21), and served in an army hospital (1918). From this period date his first play, Baal (produced 1923);...

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