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Bertolt Brecht
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. Im…
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entertainment · German playwright and poet (1898–1956) · playwright · lyricist · screenwriter · theatre director · poet · librettist · literary critic · writer · film director · director · also Bertolt Brecht, Berŭtʻoltʻŭ Bŭrehitʻŭ, Pertōl Pirekcṭ, Mpertolt Mprecht, Pu-lai-hsi-tʻe, Pertōlṭ Pirekcṭ
Born 10 February 1898 · Died 14 August 1956 · Q38757
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We must tell the truth about evil conditions to those for whom the conditions are worst, and we must also learn the truth from them. We must address not only people who hold certain views, but people who, because of their situation, should hold these views....Even the hangmen can be addressed when the payment for hanging stops, or when the work becomes too dangerous.
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2026· 18 entries
Diario Siglo XXI: Coque Malla protagoniza 'La ópera de los tres centavos' de Brecht y Weill en el Teatro Infanta Isabel de Madrid
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perfil.com: Bertolt Brecht vuelve al Teatro Alvear con La ópera de tres centavos: desigualdad y corrupción
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The Guardian: Four Walls and a Roof review – fascinating tale of Brecht, the red scare and today’s émigrés
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“We must tell the truth about evil conditions to those for whom the conditions are worst, and we must also learn the truth from them. We must address not only people who hold certain views, but people who, because of their situation, should hold these views....Even the hangmen can be addressed when the payment for hanging stops, or when the work becomes too dangerous.”
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“s lifetime. In the best-known of them,”
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“History will pay its respects to the revolutionary impatience of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany. The great discussion [exchange] with the masses about the speed of socialist construction will lead to a viewing and safeguarding of the socialist achievements. At this moment I must assure you of my allegiance to the Socialist Unity Party of Germany.”
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“stripping the event of its self-evident, familiar, obvious quality and creating a sense of astonishment and curiosity about them”
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“would in many ways come closer to the epic than to the dramatic theatre”
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Crónica Digital: A 70 años de su partida: el legado imperecedero de Bertolt Brecht
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TheWire.in: Bertolt Brecht and the Pathologies of Fascism
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HolaNews: Se cumplen 70 años de la muerte de Bertolt Brecht
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Elplural.com: Bertolt Brecht: perseguido por Hitler, interrogado en Estados Unidos y revolucionario del teatro
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Clarin.com: Setenta años sin Bertolt Brecht: el dramaturgo que quería que el público pensara
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La Razón: 70 años sin Bertolt Brecht, el dramaturgo que cambió para siempre la forma de mirar el teatro
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Mshale: Mandelay Song (Kurt Weill / Bertolt Brecht) — Live At Deelehaus, Paderborn | Mandelay Project Federico Valverde (78wWkI4fTC)
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BroadwayWorld: Bertolt Brecht
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The Guardian: Raves, Brecht and re-enacting Diana’s funeral: the White Hotel bows out as the north’s bravest music venue
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2025· 1 entry
OffBeat: Brechtfest VI Brings Bertolt Brecht’s Timeless Work to Life in New Orleans
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2023· 1 entry
CounterPunch: Bertolt Brecht (and Me)
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2019· 1 entry
The Irish Times: Ute Lemper joins Irish celebration of Bertolt Brecht
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: David Bowie in Baal, Alan Clarke's 1982 Bertolt Brecht adaptation – video
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2015· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 9 avril 2015.”
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2014· 4 entries
New Republic: The Surprisingly Erotic Poetry of Bertolt Brecht
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The New Criterion: Bertolt Brecht’s Marie-Antoinettism
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The Guardian: Bertolt Brecht's poems to 'one of his great loves' come to fervent life
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BBC: Bertolt Brecht – a brief background
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2013· 1 entry
The Guardian: Bertolt Brecht: irresistible force or forgotten chapter in theatrical history?
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2008· 1 entry
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2002· 1 entry
“Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties,”
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1997· 2 entries
“Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen // Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." - Der gute Mensch von Sezuan, Epilog (Der Spieler). In: Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Zweiter Band: Stücke 2. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. S. 294”
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“Wer a sagt, der muß nicht b sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, daß a falsch war." - Der Jasager. Der Neinsager, 2. Bild (Der Knabe). In: Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Erster Band: Stücke 1. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. S. 317”
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1988· 2 entries
“Wer die Wahrheit nicht weiß, der ist bloß ein Dummkopf. Aber wer sie weiß, und sie eine Lüge nennt, der ist ein Verbrecher!" - Leben des Galilei, Bertolt Brecht Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe, Suhrkamp Verlag, Band 5 (Stücke 5), 1988, S. 248. ISBN 3-518-10001-7 <450>. f.”
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“Eine Hauptsache der Armut in den Wissenschaften ist meist eingebildeter Reichtum. Es ist nicht ihr Ziel, der unendlichen Weisheit eine Tür zu öffnen, sondern eine Grenze zu setzen dem unendlichen Irrtum." - Leben des Galilei, Bertolt Brecht Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe, Suhrkamp Verlag, Band 5 (Stücke 5), 1988, S. 85. ISBN 3-518-10001-7 <450>”
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1981· 1 entry
“Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch." - Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui. Hrsg. von D. G. Matthews. London: Methuen, 1981. S. 200. ISBN 0-423-90180-X”
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1964· 1 entry
“Kein schwierigerer Vormarsch als der zurück zur Vernunft!" – Dialoge aus dem Messingkauf. Suhrkamp Verlag 1964, S.67 books.google; vgl. auch Suhrkamp Verlag 1963, S.120 books.google”
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1956· 16 entries
Died 1956-08-14.
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“Kto nie zna prawdy, ten jest tylko głupcem. Ale kto ją zna i nazywa kłamstwem, ten jest zbrodniarzem.”
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“Bałagan uratował już życie tysiącom ludzi. W czasie wojny wystarczyło nieraz najmniejsze odchylenie od rozkazu, aby człowiek uszedł z życiem.”
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“Ci, którzy nie posuwają naprzód żadnego życia poza swoim własnym, żyją nieciekawie.”
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“Variant translation: There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones.”
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“Wer kämpft, kann verlieren. Wer nicht kämpft, hat schon verloren. (niem.)”
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“Wer baute das siebentorige ThebenIn den Büchern stehen die Namen von Königen.Haben die Könige die Felsbrocken herbeigeschleppt? (…)Wohin gingen an dem Abend, wo die chinesische Mauer fertig war,Die Maurer? (…) (niem.)”
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“Miłość jest pragnieniem, aby komuś coś dawać – a nie otrzymywać.”
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“Myślenie jest czymś, co następuje po trudnościach i poprzedza działanie.”
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“Na diabła wolność, gdy masz głodny być!Tylko w komforcie można mile żyć!”
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“Najpiękniejsze plany biorą w łeb przez małość tych, co je mieli wykonać, bo przecież sami cesarze nic nie mogą zrobić.”
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“Niebezpieczeństwo trwa zwykle dłużej niż ucieczka.”
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“Todos correm atrás da felicidade, mas a felicidade está correndo atrás de todos.”
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“What is the burgling of a bank to the founding of a bank?”
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“De nada serve partir das coisas boas de sempre mas sim das novas e ruins.”
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“Não basta ter sido bom quando deixar o mundo. É preciso deixar um mundo melhor.”
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1953· 2 entries
“Opis: o powstaniu robotniczym w NRD przeciw władzom komunistycznym, które wybuchło w czerwcu 1953.”
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“Das Volk hat das Vertrauen der Regierung verscherzt. Wäre es da nicht doch einfacher, die Regierung löste das Volk auf und wählte ein anderes?" - nach dem Gedicht: Die Lösung. In: Buckower Elegien, 1953. In: Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Dritter Band: Gedichte 1. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. S. 404”
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1951· 2 entries
Brecht issued a recantation of his apparent suppression of poetry in his plays with a note titled On Poetry and Virtuosity
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Describes a badly diseased heart, enlarged to the left with a protruding aortic knob and with seriously impaired pumping
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1950· 1 entry
And his overseas bank accounts from which he received valuable hard currency remittances
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1949· 2 entries
Moved to East Berlin and established his theatre company there, the Berliner Ensemble
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“Die Mühen der Gebirge liegen hinter uns // Vor uns liegen die Mühen der Ebenen." - Wahrnehmung, (1949) Werke. Große kommentierte Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe". Band 15 Gedichte 5; 1993. S. 205”
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1947· 1 entry
Was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged Communist Party affiliations
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1943· 1 entry
As a Wehrmacht conscript on the Eastern Front
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1939· 1 entry
“To Those Born Later", part of the Svendborg Poems (1939)”
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1937· 1 entry
“The Exception and the Rule (1937), Prologue”
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1936· 2 entries
“Aus den Bücherhallen // Treten die Schlächter. // Die Kinder an sich drückend // Stehen die Mütter und durchforschen entgeistert // Den Himmel nach den Erfindungen der Gelehrten." - Deutsche Marginalien (1936-1940). In: Hundert Gedichte, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar, 1966, Seite 169”
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“Entertainment or Education?" (1936)”
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1935· 2 entries
“A response to the Nazi book burnings, "The Burning of the Books" ("Die Bücherverbrennung", c. 1935)”
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“Sie sägten die Äste ab, auf denen sie saßen // Und schrieen sich zu ihre Erfahrungen // Wie man schneller sägen konnte, und fuhren // Mit Krachen in die Tiefe, und die ihnen zusahen // Schüttelten die Köpfe beim Sägen und // Sägten weiter." - Typoskript, um 1935. Werke, Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe Aufbau/Suhrkamp. Band 14: Gedichte 4 (1993). S. 314 books.google”
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1934· 1 entry
“Dreigroschenroman (1934), reprinted in Gesammelte Werke, vol. 13 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1967), 916.”
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1933· 2 entries
Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia
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1931· 1 entry
“Was ist ein Dietrich gegen eine Aktie? Was ist ein Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank? Was ist die Ermordung eines Mannes gegen die Anstellung eines Mannes?" - Die Dreigroschenoper (Druckfassung 1931), III, 9 (Mac). In: Ausgewählte Werke in sechs Bänden. Erster Band: Stücke 1. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1997. S. 267”
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1930· 4 entries
Brecht married Weigel; their daughter Barbara Brecht was born soon after the wedding
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“The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre”
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“Jim[my] Mahoney, in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1930)”
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In Leipzig, with Nazis in the audience protesting
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1928· 3 entries
“Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral." - Denn wovon lebt der Mensch? In: Die Dreigroschenoper : der Erstdruck 1928. Mit einem Kommentar hrsg. von Joachim Lucchesi. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2004. S. 67. ISBN 3-518-18848-8”
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Discussed with Piscator plans to stage Shakespeare's Julius Caesar and Brecht's own Drums in the Night, but the productions did not materialize
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“Meine Lieblingslektüre? Sie werden lachen: die Bibel" - Die Dame, Ullstein Verlag Berlin, Beilage: Die losen Blätter, Heft 1, 1.Okt. 1928, S.16., zitiert nach: Bertolt Brecht: Werke. Große kommentierte Frankfurter und Berliner Ausgabe, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/M., Aufbau-Verlag Berlin und Weimar 1988-1998, Bd.21, S. 248”
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1927· 1 entry
Brecht became part of the "dramaturgical collective" of Erwin Piscator's first company, which was designed to tackle the problem of finding new plays for the group's "epic, political, confrontational, documentary theatre
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1926· 2 entries
A series of short stories was published under Brecht's name, though Hauptmann was closely associated with writing them
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“Emphasis on Sport" in the Berliner Börsen-Courier (6 February 1926), as quoted in Brecht on Theatre (1964) edited and translated by John Willett.”
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1925· 3 entries
Brecht saw two films which influenced him significantly: Chaplin's The Gold Rush and Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin
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In Mannheim the artistic exhibition Neue Sachlichkeit ("New Objectivity") had given its name to the new post-Expressionist movement in the German arts
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His publishers provided him with Elisabeth Hauptmann as an assistant for the completion of his collection of poems, Devotions for the Home (Hauspostille, eventually published in January 1927)
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1924· 2 entries
Where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler
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Brecht worked with the novelist and playwright Lion Feuchtwanger (whom he had met in 1919) on an adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II that proved to be a milestone in Brecht's early theatrical and dramaturgical
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1923· 3 entries
“Garga, from In the Jungle of Cities [Im Dickicht der Städte] (1923) , sc. 9; also translated as In the Swamp and Jungle of Cities.”
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Brecht's marriage to Zoff began to break down (though they did not divorce until 1927)
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Brecht wrote a scenario for what was to become a short slapstick film, Mysteries of a Barbershop, directed by Erich Engel and starring Karl Valentin
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1922· 1 entry
While still living in Munich, Brecht came to the attention of an influential Berlin critic, Herbert Ihering: "At 24 the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's literary complexion overnight"—he enthused in his review of
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (1917–1921).
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1915· 1 entry
For writing an essay in response to the line Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori from the Roman poet Horace, calling it Zweckpropaganda ("cheap propaganda for a specific purpose") and arguing that only an empty-headed p
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1898· 1 entry
Born 1898-02-10.
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