Bertolt Brecht
Writing
Born February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Germany
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.
Filmography
The Good Person of Szechwan
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
The Change of the Wheel
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
Lui-même
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
The Good Man from Szechuan
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Brecht
Himself (archive footage)
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
Himself (archive footage)
Trommeln in der Nacht
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
Theater of War
Self (archive footage)
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Canção de Baal
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
Self (archive footage)
Baal
Le cercle de craie caucasien
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
Self (archive footage)
The Seduction of Angels
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The Career of Arturo Ui
The Seven Deadly Sins
Antigone
Mack the Knife
Der Mantel des Ketzers
Die Bestie
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Anna Firling's Roads
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
Baal
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
Germany Pale Mother
The Tailor of Ulm
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Brecht and Co
The Life Story of Baal
Låt er inte förföras
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Self (archive footage)
Death of the Flea Circus Director
Galileo
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
Mahagonny
Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
The Good Person of Szechwan
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
History Lessons
Trummor i natten
Baal
Schweik in World War II
Regeln och undantaget
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
BBC Play of the Month
The Shameless Old Lady
Life of Galileo
The Threepenny Opera
Mother Courage and Her Children
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
Song of the Rivers
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
Leben des Galilei
Hangmen Also Die!
The Murderers Are Coming
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
A Man's a Man
The Threepenny Opera
The 3 Penny Opera
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop