Writing
Bertolt Brecht
Born Feb 10, 1898 · Augsburg, Germany · Died Aug 14, 1956
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, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California, where he established himself as a screenwriter while being surveilled by the FBI. In 1947, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged Communist Party affiliations. The day after testifying, he returned to Europe, eventually settling in East Berlin, where he co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel.
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Written
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Drama
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
2025
TV Movie
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
2024
Drama
The Change of the Wheel
2024
Animation
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
2021
Music
The Good Man from Szechuan
2020
Drama
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
2020
Documentary
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2019
Trommeln in der Nacht
2018
TV Movie
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2016
Comedy · Music
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2011
Music · Drama
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
2009
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2007
Canção de Baal
2007
Music
Baal
2004
Drama · TV Movie
Le cercle de craie caucasien
2002
Comedy
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1998
Music
The Career of Arturo Ui
1996
Drama
The Seven Deadly Sins
1993
Music
Antigone
1992
Drama
Mack the Knife
1989
Comedy · Crime · Music
Der Mantel des Ketzers
1989
Drama · TV Movie
Die Bestie
1988
Drama · TV Movie
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985
Anna Firling's Roads
1985
Drama
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
1984
Music
Baal
1982
Music · Drama · TV Movie
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
1981
Drama
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
1979
Drama
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
1979
Comedy
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1979
Music · Drama · Comedy
Brecht and Co
1979
Drama
The Life Story of Baal
1978
Låt er inte förföras
1978
Music · Drama
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
1978
Drama
Death of the Flea Circus Director
1975
Drama
Galileo
1975
Drama · History
Mahagonny
1974
Music · Drama
Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti
1974
Drama · TV Movie
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
1974
TV Movie
The Good Person of Szechwan
1973
Drama
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972
Crime
History Lessons
1972
Drama
Trummor i natten
1972
Drama · TV Movie
Arturo Ui
1971
Crime · TV Movie
Baal
1970
Drama
Schweik in World War II
1969
Comedy · War
Regeln och undantaget
1968
Drama · TV Movie
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
1966
Drama
BBC Play of the Month
1965
Drama
The Shameless Old Lady
1965
Comedy
Life of Galileo
1965
Drama · TV Movie
The Threepenny Opera
1963
Music · Drama
Mother Courage and Her Children
1961
Drama
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
1960
Comedy · Music · Drama
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
1958
Drama
Song of the Rivers
1954
Documentary
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
1952
Documentary
Leben des Galilei
1947
Drama
Hangmen Also Die!
1943
Drama · Thriller · War
The Murderers Are Coming
1942
Drama · War
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
1942
War · Comedy
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
1932
Drama
The Threepenny Opera
1931
Music · Drama · Crime
The 3 Penny Opera
1931
Music · Crime
Directed
Acting
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2022
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
2019
Documentary
Theater of War
2008
Documentary
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
2006
Documentary