
Known for
Writing
Born
February 10, 1898
Birthplace
Augsburg, Germany
Died
August 14, 1956 (aged 58)
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. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt.
When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933,...
TBA
Original Story, Lyricist
2025
2025
Theatre Play
2024
2024
2022
as Lui-même
2021
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
as Himself (archive footage)
2018
Theatre Play
2016
Musical, Lyricist
2013
Writer
2012
Writer
2011
Lyricist, Writer
2009
2008
as Self (archive footage)
2007
2007
Theatre Play, Lyricist
2006
as Self (archive footage)
2004
Novel
2002
2002