Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, poet and theatre director who lived from 1898 to 1956, developer of epic theatre, a style intended to provoke critical distance and social analysis in the audience rather than emotional identification, using techniques such as direct address and song to interrupt dramatic illusion. He is best known for plays including Mother Courage and Her Children in 1939 and The Threepenny Opera in 1928, written with composer Kurt Weill. He fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and lived in exile for over a decade before returning to East Germany.
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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.
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From July 1916, Brecht's newspaper articles began appearing under the new name "Bert Brecht"
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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. 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.
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