Bertolt Brecht, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, theatre director

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1898

Place of Birth: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Aug-1956

Profession: screenwriter, writer, poet, playwright, author, lyricist, theater director, literary critic, librettist

Nationality: Austria, German Empire

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt 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 Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler.
Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
During the Nazi period he lived in exile, first in Scandinavia, and during World War II in the United States.
Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.