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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht [a] (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 life-long ...
Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. [1] It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at Munich University , in response to the expressionist drama The Loner ( Der Einsame ...
Trommeln in der Nacht (1918–20/1922), by Bertolt Brecht Torquato Tasso (1790), by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Turandot, Prinzessin von China (1801), by Friedrich Schiller
Round Heads and Pointed Heads (German: Die Rundköpfe und die Spitzköpfe) is an epic parable play written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, in collaboration with Margarete Steffin, Emil Burri, Elisabeth Hauptmann, and the composer Hanns Eisler. [1]
Brecht, in his typical anti-realist style, uses the device of a "play within a play".The "frame" play is set in the Soviet Union around the end of the Second World War.It shows a dispute between two communes, the Collective Fruit Farm Galinsk fruit growing commune and the Collective Goat Farmers, over who is to own and manage an area of farm land after the Nazis have retreated from a village ...
Episode five of the eighth season of the television series Cheers, "The Two Faces of Norm", was based on the play. David Harrower created a new translation entitled The Good Soul of Szechuan , which opened at the Young Vic theatre in London from May 8 – June 28, 2008, with Jane Horrocks as Shen Te/Shui Ta and a score and songs by David Sawer .
The Elephant Calf (German: Das Elefantenkalb), also known as The Baby Elephant, is an early one-act surrealistic prose farce written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It originally formed the penultimate scene of Brecht's full-length play Man Equals Man , but by 1926 Brecht had separated it to an appendix to the published text.