Bertolt Brecht

Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble160 the postwar theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, longtime collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born in February 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, the son of Berthold Friedrich Brecht and his wife Sophie, ne Brezing . Brechts mother was a devout Protestant and his father a Catholic . The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum. His father worked for a paper mill, becoming its managing director in 1914. Thanks to his mothers influence, Brecht knew the Bible, a familiarity that would have a lifelong effect on his writing. From her, too, came the dangerous image of the selfdenying woman that recurs in his drama. Brechts home life was comfortably middle class, despite what his occasional attempt to claim peasant origins implied. At school in Augsburg he met Caspar Neher, with whom he formed a lifelong creative partnership. Neher designed many of the sets for Brechts dramas and helped to forge the distinctive visual iconography of their epic theatre.

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