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Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 10 February 1898
- Died
- 14 August 1956
- Place of birth
- Augsburg
- Place of death
- East Berlin
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Brecht
- Mother
- Sophie Brezing
- Spouse
- Marianne Zoff, Helene Weigel
- Sibling
- Walter Brecht
- Field of work
- drama
- Occupation
- playwright, lyricist, screenwriter, theatre director, poet, librettist, literary critic, writer, film director, director, actor, Theaterintendant
- Citizenship
- German Empire, German Democratic Republic, Weimar Republic, Austria
- Religion
- atheism
- Awards
- National Prize of East Germany, International Stalin Prize for Peace, star on Playwrights' Sidewalk
- archives at
- Lilly Library, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Houghton Library, Archive of the Academy of Arts, Augsburg State and Municipal Library
- birth name
- Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- described by source
- Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1969–1978), UbuWeb, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), BEIC Digital Library, Faces of Moscow, Λεξικό Νεοελληνικής Λογοτεχνίας, Dresdner Hefte
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
- languages spoken, written or signed
- German
- list of works
- Bibliography of Bertolt Brecht
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany
- name in native language
- Bertolt Brecht
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Literature, Tony Award for Best Play, Tony Award for Best Original Score
- notable work
- The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
- place of burial
- Dorotheenstadt Cemetery
- pseudonym
- Bertolt Brecht, Berthold Larsen
- related category
- Category:Songs with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht
- residence
- Chausseestraße
- significant event
- Nazi book burnings
- student
- Wolf Biermann, Joseph Losey
- student of
- Arthur Kutscher
- topic's main category
- Category:Bertolt Brecht
- unmarried partner
- Paula Banholzer
- writing language
- German
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