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Bertolt Brecht

ベルトルト・ブレヒト　/　べるとると・ぶれひと

Playwright from Germany

February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956　・　Augsburg, Swabia, Germany

Swabia
playwright
lyricist
screenwriter

My Take

Brecht is one of those rare figures whose ideas outgrew his own art form. Every time a film breaks the fourth wall or a series asks you to judge its hero instead of cheering for him, I hear an echo of his epic theater. What moves me is that his detachment was never coldness; he distanced audiences precisely because he believed they could think, choose, and change the world. Writing The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage while war and exile chased him across borders, he kept arguing with his century. A playwright who treated entertainment as a moral instrument — I find that bracing even now.

Overview

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…

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1. Profile

Name (English): Bertolt Brecht
Name (Japanese): ベルトルト・ブレヒト
Reading: べるとると・ぶれひと
Born: February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aquarius / Dog
Origin: Augsburg, Swabia, Germany
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: playwright / lyricist / screenwriter / theatre director / poet

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

National Prize of East Germany
International Stalin Prize for Peace
star on Playwrights' Sidewalk

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role
Notable work	The Threepenny Opera	—
Notable work	Life of Galileo	—
Notable work	The Caucasian Chalk Circle	—
Notable work	Fear and Misery of the Third Reich	—
Notable work	Mother Courage and Her Children	—
Notable work	The Good Person of Szechwan	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%99%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%83%96%E3%83%AC%E3%83%92%E3%83%88

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