Bertolt Brecht, German director, playwright, and poet (died 1956)

Bertolt Brecht

German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)

Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, 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…