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Selected Poems by Bertolt Brecht, 1971-03-24 Bertolt Brecht: His Life, His Art and His Times by Bertolt Brecht, 1998-08-04 The Threepenny Opera (Penguin Classics) by Bertolt Brecht, 2007-12-18 THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Revised English Version) by Bertolt Brecht, 1966 Galileo by Bertolt Brecht, 1994-01-11 Brecht: A Biography by Ronald Hayman, 1983-11-17 Poemas y canciones / Poems and Songs (El Libro De Bolsillo / the Pocket Book) by Bertolt Brecht, 2002-06-30 Bertolt Brecht: Journals 1934 - 1955 by Bertolt Brecht, 1995-12-13 Bertolt Brecht Collected Plays, Vol. 5 by Bertolt Brecht, 1972-03-12 Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aesthetic by Bertolt Brecht, 1977-01-01 Brecht Collected Plays (World Classics) by Bertolt Brecht, 2001-05-24 Collected Plays (Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry & Prose) by Bertolt Brecht, 2004-08-26 Bertolt Brecht: Poems 1913-1956 by Bertolt Brecht, 1997-10-07 Jewish Wife and Other Short Plays: Includes: In Search of Justice; Informer; Elephant Calf; Measures Taken; Exception and the Rule; Salzburg Dance of Death (Brecht, Bertolt) by Bertolt Brecht, 1994-03-28

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1. Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   Bertolt Brecht. Brecht with his emblematic cigar, a means of taking a moment to think For the attitude that these people adopt in the opera is unworthy of  
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   Extractions: East Berlin German Democratic Republic Occupation Poet, Playwright and Theatre Director Genres Epic theater Non-Aristotelian drama Dialectical theatre Spouse Marianne Zoff Helene Weigel Children Hanna Hiob Stefan Brecht Barbara Brecht Influences Karl Valentin Erwin Piscator Vsevolod Meyerhold Influenced Dario Fo Augusto Boal Joan Littlewood Peter Brook ... info (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht help info February 10 ... August 14 ) was a German poet playwright , and theatre director . A seminal theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht's achievement is equally significant in dramaturgy and in theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble —the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress

2. Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia
   Translate this page Die 1927 veröffentlichte Gedichtsammlung Bertolt Brechts Hauspostille besteht jedoch weitestgehend aus früher verfassten Texten. 1928 feierte Brecht mit  
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   Extractions: Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Dieser Artikel befasst sich mit dem Künstler Bertolt Brecht. Für weitere Bedeutungen siehe Brecht (Begriffsklärung) Das Brecht-Denkmal von Fritz Cremer vor dem Berliner Ensemble Bertolt Brecht (gebürtig Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; 10. Februar in Augsburg 14. August in Berlin ) wird als einflussreichster deutscher Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet. Er ist auch international für seine Werke angesehen und ausgezeichnet worden. Brecht gilt als Begründer des epischen Theaters bzw. „dialektischen Theaters“. Brecht bezeichnete sich selbst (gegenüber Walter Benjamin ) als Kommunisten. Das Geburtshaus des Dichters in Augsburg, heute „Brechthaus“ (Gedenkstätte) Hinweistafel am Brechthaus Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht kam am 10. Februar 1898 in Augsburg zur Welt. Sein Vater war Berthold Friedrich Brecht, leitender Angestellter und später Direktor der Haindlschen Papierfabrik, seine Mutter Sophie Brecht, geb.

3. Bertholt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Germany, on 19th February, 1898. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Munich before becoming a  
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   Extractions: Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Germany , on 19th February, 1898. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Munich before becoming a medical orderly in a German military hospital during the First World War . This experience reinforced his hatred of war and influenced his support for the failed Socialist revolution in 1919.

4. GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography Of Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898, in the medieval city of Augsburg, part of the Bavarian section of the German Empire.  
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   Extractions: Help Search: Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898, in the medieval city of Augsburg, part of the Bavarian section of the German Empire. Married in 1897, his father was a Catholic and his mother a Protestant. Brecht was their first child, baptized as Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht. His father, Bertolt Friedrich Brecht, worked in a paper factory. His mother, Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie Brezing, was ill with breast cancer most of his young life. He had one brother, Walter, who was born in 1900. Brecht was a sickly child, having a congenital heart condition and a facial tic. As a result he was sent to a sanitarium to relax. At age six he attended a Protestant elementary school (Volksschule) and at age ten a private school, The Royal Bavarian Realgymnasium (Koeniglich-Bayerisches Realgymnasium). Like most students, he was educated in Latin and the humanities, later being exposed to Nietzsche and other thinkers. He suffered a heart attack at the age of twelve but soon recovered and continued his education. Significantly, Brecht was exposed at a young age to Luther's German translation of the Bible, a text considered instrumental in the development of the modern German language. Quotes from and references to the Bible abound throughout Brecht's work and can be found most particularly in

5. Bertolt Brecht --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on Bertolt Brecht German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions  
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   Extractions: Commonly Asked Questions About Bertolt Brecht Close Enable free complete viewings of Britannica premium articles when linked from your website or blog-post. Now readers of your website, blog-post, or any other web content can enjoy full access to this article on Bertolt Brecht , or any Britannica premium article for free, even those readers without a premium membership. Just copy the HTML code fragment provided below to create the link and then paste it within your web content. For more details about this feature, visit our

6. Bertolt Brecht €“ Wikipedia
   Translate this page Brecht, Bertolt Kirjoituksia teatterista. Suomentaneet Anja Kolehmainen, Rauni Paalanen ja Outi Valle. Teatterikorkeakoulun julkaisusarja nro 14.  
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   Extractions: Itä-Berliini Saksan demokraattinen tasavalta Ammatit: näytelmäkirjailija, runoilija Kansallisuus: Itävalta Tyylilajit: eeppinen teatteri Bertolt Brecht (syntyjään Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; s. 10. helmikuuta Augsburg Saksa – k. 14. elokuuta Itä-Berliini Itä-Saksa ) oli saksalainen näytelmäkirjailija ja runoilija. Hänen tunnettuihin teoksiinsa kuuluvat Kolmen pennin ooppera (yhteistyössä Kurt Weillin kanssa), Herra Puntila ja hänen renkinsä Matti (yhdessä Hella Hella Wuolijoen kanssa), Äiti Peloton ja hänen lapsensa Setšuanin hyvä ihminen ja Galileo Galilei Brecht syntyi Augsburgissa, Baijerissa . Hänen äitinsä oli protestantti ja isänsä katolinen paperitehtaan johtaja. Brecht opiskeli lääkäriksi ja työskenteli ensimmäisen maailmansodan aikaan lääkintäjoukoissa. Sodan jälkeen hän palasi lääketieteen opintoihin, mutta keskeytti ne 1921. Brecht kirjoitti ensimmäisen näytelmänsä Baal vuonna 1922. Siitä tuli erittäin suosittu. Vuonna 1927 Brecht alkoi lukea

7. Bertolt Brecht - Wikiquote
   Translate this page Okt. 1928, S.16., zitiert nach Bertolt Brecht Werke. Große kommentierte Frankfurter und Berliner Ausgabe, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt/M., Aufbau-Verlag  
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   Extractions: eigentlich: Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht "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" aus den Buckower Elegien, 1953 "Der Schoß ist fruchtbar noch, aus dem das kroch." - Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui, Epilog, 1958 "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 "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann kommt die Moral." - Denn wovon lebt der Mensch?, Die Dreigroschenoper, 1928 "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 "Was ist der Einbruch in eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank?" -

8. Alice In Theaterland - Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht quotes and bio. Also photos of Brecht and related links.  
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   Extractions: Theatre and acting resources German dramatist and poet. Born in Augsburg at February 10, 1898. He aimed to destroy the "suspension of disbelief" usual in the theatre and to express Marxist ideas. He adapted John Gay's Beggar's Opera as Die Dreigroschenoper/The threepenny Opera Der kaukasische Kreidekreis/The Caucasian chalk Circle As an anti-Nazi, he left Germany in 1933 for Scandinavia and the USA. He became an Australian citizen after World War II, and in 1949 establishes the Berliner Ensemble theatre group in East Germany. Quotes on theatre and acting Drama schools, neglect the need for observation and mimesis of the objective of this observation. Young actors have the tendency to express themselves without taking into account the stimulus they receive and in which they owe the way they express. The actor has not only to produce poetic morphs but also to recreate and elaborate constantly real types from his surrounding. For the actor the entire world transforms into a theatre and himself in a spectator. (Uber den Beruf des Schauspielers) An actor never closes his door to any joy or sorrow. These feelings are necessary to his work because his first thought is to remain human.

9. Bertolt Brecht
   Bertolt Brecht and Socialist Realism. Jakup Mato, Rinush Idrizi, Vangjush Ziko, Anastas Kapurani. Life. Brecht is among the distinguished representatives of  
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   Extractions: Anastas Kapurani Life Brecht is among the distinguished representatives of socialist realist art. As a creator, he is many-sided: poet, dramatist, director, critic and publicist. He was born on 10 February, 1898 in Augsburg in Bavaria, Germany. His childhood and early youth were passed in years of tempestuous events filled with drama events which were historic not only for Germany, but for the whole of Europe and humanity. It was at this time that there occurred the profound crisis of the capitalist world of the beginning of our century, together with the politico-historical events linked with it which led to the outbreak of the First World War with all its destructive consequences. These tragic events left their mark on the young Brecht and powerfully influenced the formation of his character. We see the young Brecht incline towards progressive ideas, towards concern for and defence of the destiny of the common man evidence of the early formation in him of democratic and patriotic ideas. This was reflected in his first poems, written from the age of sixteen. These poems have an anti-militarist spirit and are permeated by the leitmotiv of struggle against the War. After completing secondary school in the city of his birth, during the years 1917-1921 he went to Munich to continue higher studies in the fields of medicine and the natural sciences. He completed these studies only after an interval since, during the years of the First World War, he was mobilized and in 1918 served in a military hospital. After this, he devoted himself entirely to literature and art.

10. Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia
    Translate this page Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht detto Bertolt (Augusta, 10 febbraio 1898 – Berlino, 14 agosto 1956) è considerato il più influente drammaturgo,  
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    Extractions: Vai a: Navigazione cerca Nota disambigua - Se stai cercando l'omonimo comune belga , vedi Brecht (Belgio) Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht detto Bertolt Augusta 10 febbraio Berlino 14 agosto ) è considerato il più influente drammaturgo poeta e regista teatrale tedesco XX secolo Bertolt Brecht nel 1920 fonte:Deutsche Historische Museum www.dhm.de Bertolt Brecht nacque ad Augusta il 10 febbraio da Berthold Friedrich Brecht e Sophie Brezing, in una famiglia di recente borghesia . I nonni paterni erano originari del Baden , mentre quelli materni provenivano da Bad Waldsee , nell'Alta Svevia Il padre era cattolico , sua madre era protestante e il giovane Brecht fu educato nella fede della madre. Il 20 marzo Bertolt venne battezzato nella chiesa evangelica Barfüßerkirche e il 18 settembre la famiglia traslocò nella nuova abitazione nella città bassa vicino a Perlachberg , quartiere di artigiani e artisti. La fede protestante della madre segnò l'educazione culturale e linguistica del figlio, nella quale la lirica religiosa evangelica e il tedesco di

11. Bertolt Brecht - Wikiquote
    Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898–1956), commonly known as Bertolt Brecht, was an influential German Marxist dramatist, stage director, and poet of the  
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12. Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht 2 The epic aesthetic, by contrast, “can take a pair of scissors and cut it into individual pieces, which remain fully capable of life” (p.  
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    Extractions: Bertolt Brecht, the Aesthetics of Epic Theatre: Pedagogic Implications for the Management and Organization David Boje July 16, 2003 New Mexico State University This is an overview of how I use Epic Theatre to develop critical theory skills for management, organization theory, and leadership courses. The term Epic Theater, used by Brecht for the first time in 1926, did not originate with him, although it is generally applied to his work today. It was already in the air in 1924 when Brecht moved from Munich to Berlin and was first used in connection with revolutionary experiments by director Erwin Piscator. Many playwrights and composers produced plays and musical compositions in the 1920s which have been since been labeled epic (Stravinisky, Pirandello, Claudel), and others have followed in their footsteps (Wilder, Miller, Becket). Brecht (‘ Theatre for Pleasure or Theatre for Instruction ” in Willett, 1957: 71) distinguishes between the Dramatic and the Epic Spectator. If we assume people grow up in the dramatic aesthetic, then the task of critical management studies is to defamiliarize it with epic theatre. There is a dialectic relation between two spectators: Figure 1: Dialectic of Dramatic and Epic Spectator Dramatic and Epic theatre have different constructions that were defined by Aristotle (350 BCE), “whose laws” says Brecht, “were dealt with by two different branches of aesthetics” (Willett, 1957: 70). The dramatic aesthetic is the strong centralization of the story and a momentum that draws the six poetic elements (plot, character, theme, dialog, rhythm, and spectacle) into common relationship.

13. Bertolt Brecht: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati
    Bertolt Brecht Solidarity Song Peoples of the world, together Join to serve the common cause! So it feeds us all for ever See to it that it s now yours.  
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    Extractions: Catch the latest action, scores and banter in Sports Subscribe search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Français) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Português) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Español) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (Türkçe) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) 18.15-19.00 arte Moritz Rinke - Mein Leben Dokumentation, Deutschland, 2007, 43 min Autor: Sabine Carbon Moritz Rinke zählt derzeit zu den meist gespielten Dramatikern Deutschlands. Der 40-jährige Autor wuchs im Künstlerdorf Worpswede auf, studierte Theaterwissenschaft in Gießen und veröffentlichte viel beachtete Reportagen und Kolumnen. 13 days ago in FrancisBacon Authority: 11 http://donneinazione.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 01/ 12/ ninna-nanna-1932/

14. Bertolt Brecht
    Bertolt Brecht, 18981956, was one of the greatest dramatists of the 20th century. His first poems were published at 16.  
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    Extractions: Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, was one Source: costik.com of the most brilliant practitioners of the German Theatre. He was, and still is, regarded as one of the most influential figures in European theatre. He was born in Augsburg in Germany, the son of a manufacturer. He studied philosophy and natural science in Munich and Berlin. He wrote 39 plays, the first of which, Baal, was written in 1918. Source: hsc.csu.edu.au Bertolt Brecht, whose final work, Source: cord.edu This selection of Bertolt Brecht's critical writing charts the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics over four decades. The volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and Alienation evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging of "The Threepenny Opera", "Mahagonny", "Mother Courage", "Puntila", "Galileo" and many others of his plays. Also included is "A Short Organum for the Theatre", Brecht's most complete statement of his revolutionary philosophy of the theatre. With over 32 pages of photographs of Brecht's productions and workshops, this is a key volume for Literature and Theatre Studies alike. "Admirably translated and annotated this book is a source of instruction, enlightenment, even fun" - "New York Times". Source: amazon.co.uk

15. Bertolt Brecht Biography And Summary
    Bertolt Brecht biography with 101 pages of profile on Bertolt Brecht sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals.  
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16. Bertolt Brecht
    Biography of the German writer and discussion of his works.  
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    Extractions: Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer, one of the most prominent figures in the 20th-century theatre. Bertolt Brecht was concerned with encouraging audiences to think rather than becoming too involved in the story line and to identify with the characters. In this process he used alienation effects (A Effekts). Brecht developed a form of drama called epic theatre in which ideas or didactic lessons are important. "In order to produce A Effects the actor has to discard whatever means he has learned of persuading the audience to identify itself with the characters which he plays. Aiming not to put his audience into a trance, he must not go into a trance himself. His muscles must remain loose, for a turn of the head, e.g., with tautened neck muscles, will "magically" lead the spectators' eyes and even their heads to turn with it, and this can only detract from any speculation or reaction which the gestures may bring about. His way of speaking has to be free from ecclesiastical singsong and from all those cadences which lull the spectator so that the sense gets lost." (from A Short Organum for the Theatre enfant terrible In 1917 Brecht enrolled as a medical student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he sometimes attended also the theatre seminar conducted by Professor Artur Kutscher. Between 1919 and 1921 he wrote theatre criticisms for the left-wing Socialist paper Die Augsburger. After military service as a medical orderly, he returned to his studies, but abandoned them in 1921. During the Bavarian revolutionary turmoil of 1918, Brech wrote his first play, BAAL, which was produced in 1923. The play celebrated life and sexuality and was huge success.

17. Bertolt Brecht
    Biography of German playwright bertolt brecht.  
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    Extractions: 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); his first success, Trommeln in der Nacht (Kleist Preis, 1922; Drums in the Night); the poems and songs collected as Die Hauspostille (1927; A Manual of Piety, 1966), his first professional production (Edward II, 1924); and his admiration for Wedekind, Rimbaud, Villon, and Kipling. During this period he also developed a violently antibourgeois attitude that reflected his generation's deep disappointment in the civilization that had come crashing down at the end of World War I. Among Brecht's friends were members of the Dadaist group, who aimed at destroying what they condemned as the false standards of bourgeois art through derision and iconoclastic satire. The man who taught him the elements of Marxism in the late 1920s was Karl Korsch, an eminent Marxist theoretician who had been a Communist member of the Reichstag but had been expelled from the German Communist Party in 1926. In Berlin (1924-33) he worked briefly for the directors Max Reinhardt and Erwin Piscator, but mainly with his own group of associates. With the composer Kurt Weill (q.v.) he wrote the satirical, successful ballad opera Die Dreigroschenoper (1928; The Threepenny Opera) and the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (1930; Rise and Fall of the Town of Mahoganny). He also wrote what he called "Lehr-stucke" ("exemplary plays")badly didactic works for performance outside the orthodox theatreto music by Weill, Hindemith, and Hanns Eisler. In these years he developed his theory of "epic theatre" and an austere form of irregular verse. He also became a Marxist.

18. International Brecht Society
    Society serving scholars, critics, students, and theater people around the world who are interested in the works and thought of bertolt brecht.  
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    Extractions: The International Brecht Society Homepage is maintained as a service to scholars, critics, students, and theater people round the world who are interested in the works and thought of Brecht. Readers of the IBS website are encouraged to send announcements and information for posting. Please use the Suggestion Box or email the website Technical Supervisor . Mail or faxes sent to the website Managing Editor will take significantly longer to post. The IBS was founded in 1970 on the model of Bertolt Brecht's own unrealized plans for a "Diderot Society". A non-profit, educational organization with a world-wide membership, the Society promotes the performance and understanding of Brecht's texts and addresses issues of politics and culture in contemporary life. It also encourages and supports local, national, and regional groups with related goals. In Brecht's spirit of collaborative work, the IBS hopes that this website will function as a clearinghouse, facilitating international contacts and exchange. It is committed to maintaining Brecht as a living force in the theater as well as in the political and cultural arenas, so that he remains - as he wished - an "unsettling presence". If you are interested in becoming a member of the IBS, click here For more information about the contents of this site, click

19. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)
    Biography of German playwright bertolt brecht, plus links to all of his works currently in print.  
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    Extractions: Bertolt Brecht A poet first and foremost, Bertolt Brecht's genius was for language. However, because this language is built upon a certain bold and direct simplicity, his plays often lose something in the translation from his native German. Nevertheless, they contain a rare poetic vision, a voice that has rarely been paralleled in the 20th century. Brecht was influenced by a wide variety of sources including Chinese, Japanese, and Indian theatre, the Elizabethans (especially Shakespeare ), Greek tragedy, Wedekind , fair-ground entertainments, the Bavarian folk play, and many more. Such a wide variety of sources might have proven overwhelming for a lesser artist, but Brecht had the uncanny ability to take elements from seemingly incompatible sources, combine them, and make them his own. In his early plays, Brecht experimented with dada and expressionism, but in his later work, he developed a style more suited his own unique vision. He detested the "Aristotelian" drama and its attempts to lure the spectator into a kind of trance-like state, a total identification with the hero to the point of complete self-oblivion, resulting in feelings of terror and pity and, ultimately, an emotional catharsis. He didn't want his audience to feel emotionshe wanted them to think and towards this end, he determined to destroy the theatrical illusion, and, thus, that dull trance-like state he so despised.

20. The Life And Lies Of Bertolt Brecht
    For him, this side of the fall of the wall, brecht is open season. After being compared to Hitler and Stalin, the bertolt brecht in Fuegi s new biography is  
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    Extractions: Reviewed by Dave Riley (Brief reference to Brecht's appearance before HUAC in another article.) As the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, word went out that this action drew on the inspiration of ``the three B's'' - Biermann, Bahro and Brecht. The masses of Berliners who took to the streets in search of a new beginning had chosen their heroes well: Wolf Biermann was a master of the protest song, something of a Germanic Bob Dylan but with an allegiance to socialism; Rudolf Bahro, a sometime jailed GDR dissident who, after being exiled to the West, became a major theoretician and leader of the German Greens; and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956), renowned poet and playwright. Brecht's ready listing was sure to fuel the immense controversy that he has attracted since his early theatrical successes in the 1920s. Sometimes compared to Shakespeare (by Charles Laughton), Brecht is generally considered one of the great playwrights and directors of the 20th century. Even now, almost 40 years after his death, his plays - along with those of Chekhov - are the most frequently performed works in the modern repertoire. (In my locality alone there have been three separate Brecht productions in the last year.) As the English theatre director Peter Brook has emphasised: ``Brecht is the key figure of our time, and all theatre work today at some point starts or returns to his statements and achievement''.

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