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  Bertholt Brecht
Brecht attempted to develop a new approach to the the theatre.
Brecht's plays reflected a Marxist interpretation of society and when Adolf Hitler gained power in 1933 he was forced to flee from Germany.
Brecht was one of those named and after giving evidence to the House of Un-American Activities Committee, where he denied being a member of the American Communist Party, he left for East Germany.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAbrecht.htm   (535 words)

  
  Bertolt Brecht - MSN Encarta
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria.
Brecht's narrative style, which he called epic theater, was directed against the illusion created by traditional theater of witnessing a slice of life.
Brecht's greatest achievement is, without doubt, his contribution to the repertory of the international theater.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761557477/Bertolt_Brecht.html   (916 words)

  
  Bertolt Brecht - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brecht died in 1956 of a heart attack at the age of 58.
Brecht left the Berliner Ensemble to his wife, the actress Helene Weigel, which she ran until her death in 1971.
Brecht's influence can easily be seen on the work of director-chreographer Bob Fosse, not only in his Academy Award-winning film version of the musical Cabaret (1972), but also in his work on stage with Chicago (1975) and in his other films, such as Lenny (1976).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bertolt_Brecht   (2550 words)

  
 GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in the medieval city of Augsburg, part of the Bavarian section of the German Empire.
Brecht was a sickly child, with a congenital heart condition and a facial tic.
Brecht is buried in the Dorotheenfriedhof in Berlin.
www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_bertolt_brecht.html   (1736 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
Brecht Yabancılaştırma kavramını ilk kez 1936'da yazdığı "Çin Oyununda Yabancılaştırma Etkileri" adlı yazısında kullanmıştır.
Bu oyundan sonra Brecht, faşizmin siyasal bir ikna aracı olarak duyusal kışkırtmaya yöneldiği dönemde, sanatın bunun tersini yapması gerektiğini söyleyerek; duru, zihni kışkırtan bir oyun tekniği arayışına koyulur.
Brecht, öyle bir dünyayı ima eder ki, insani değerlerden yoksunluk bir girişimciliktir, ama insani değerlere bireysel bir dönüş, bir tür "Johanna olma arzusu" bu girişimcilik karşısında alternatif değildir.
www.karasite.org /research/brecht   (2616 words)

  
 Interpretationen im Fach Deutsch - Interpretationen im Fach Deutsch - Interpretationen im Fach Deutsch
Dieses Dokument interpretiert eins der kurzen, aber dennoch sehr berühmten Gedichte Brechts, in denen mit sparsamsten Mitteln aus einem Eindruck ein Gedanke entsteht.
Dieses Dokument behandelt eins der bekanntesten Dramen Brechts, das auch in der Schule häufig gelesen wird.
Materialien (Lebensdaten zu Galileo Galilei; Brecht zum epischen bzw.
www.interpretationen.de /interpretationen_treffer.cfm?autor=brecht   (2342 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
Brecht wurde 1898 in Augsburg geboren und ist 1956 in Berlin gestorben.
Dreigroschenheft - Informationen zu Bertolt Brecht (Kurt Idrizovic, Augsburg)
Februar wäre Bertolt Brecht 100 Jahre alt geworden.
www.cwru.edu /artsci/modlang/german380/brecht.html   (1393 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
Brecht did not reach his communist convictions about the art of the working class by accident, but by taking part with determination in the hard class struggle of the society of the time, according to his militant motto: 'Fight in writing!'.
The Marxist world outlook gave Brecht a correct understanding of, and a clear orientation towards, the classes and social relations of his time, the origin of fascism and its significance for the future of society when the working class would be master of the country.
Brecht had a correct understanding of the new social function of this art and of the mission of the socialist writer.
revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv4n2/brecht.htm   (4825 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht was concerned with encouraging audiences to think rather than becoming too involved in the story line and to identify with the characters.
Brecht’s second wife, Helene Weigel, whom he had married in 1928, was his chief actress and carried on as a director.
Brecht formutated his literary theories much in reaction to Georg Lukács (1885-1971), a Hungarian philosopher and Marxist literary theoretician.
www.kirjasto.sci.fi /brecht.htm   (2911 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born, studied medicine (Munich, 1917-21), and served in an army hospital (1918).
Brecht was, first, a superior poet, with a command of many styles and moods.
A complete bibliography of Brecht's writings published up to the time of his death by Walter Nubel may be found in the Second Special Brecht Number of the East German periodicial Sinn und Form (1957); a concise summary of Brecht literature is contained in Bertolt-Brecht-Bibliographie by Klaus-Dietrich Petersen (1968).
www.cs.brandeis.edu /~jamesf/goodwoman/brecht_bio.html   (880 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Bertolt Brecht
His father, Berthold Friedrich Brecht, was an administrative employee in a paper-mill who became its managing director in 1917 and who provided a financially secure existence for his sons Bertolt and Walter and their mother Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie Brecht (née Brezing).
The turn away from jingoistic pro-war clamor is reflected in his “Legende vom toten Soldaten” [“The Legend of the Dead Soldier”, 1918], a poem which attacks the cynicism and irresponsibility of officers and clergy and the naïve war enthusiasm of the German population.
Brecht’s first stage success came with Trommeln in der Nacht [Drums in the Night, 1922], which was inspired by the workers’ and soldiers’ revolts in 1918/19.
www.litencyc.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=554   (655 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Brecht, Bertolt   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brecht, Bertolt BRECHT, BERTOLT [Brecht, Bertolt], 1898-1956, German dramatist and poet, b.
Piscator, Erwin PISCATOR, ERWIN [Piscator, Erwin], 1893-1966, German theatrical director and producer who, with Bertolt Brecht, was the foremost exponent of epic theater, a genre that emphasizes the sociopolitical context rather than the emotional content or aesthetics of the play.
A pacifist, socialist, and friend of both Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht, he fled Germany for France in 1933; he was later arrested but dramatically escaped to the United States in 1940.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/01833.html   (582 words)

  
 Helene Weigel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Born in Vienna in 1900, the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of The Berliner Ensemble after her husband Bertholt Brecht's death in 1956.
Among the Brecht roles she is most noted for creating are: Pelagea Vlassova, The Mother of 1932, Antigone in Brecht's version of the Greek Tragedy, the title role in his Civil War play Seňora Carrar's Rifles and, most famously, the iconic Mother Courage.
It was only with the foundation of The Berliner Ensemble in the DDR in 1949 that the brilliance of Brecht's theatre and practitioners began to be recognised worldwide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Helene_Weigel   (210 words)

  
 International Brecht Society
The International Brecht Society Homepage is maintained as a service to scholars, critics, students, and theater people round the world who are interested in the works and thought of Brecht.
The IBS was founded in 1970 on the model of Bertolt Brecht's own unrealized plans for a "Diderot Society".
It is committed to maintaining Brecht as a living force in the theater as well as in the political and cultural arenas, so that he remains - as he wished - an "unsettling presence".
german.lss.wisc.edu /brecht   (475 words)

  
 American Views Abroad
The piece is credited to Dorothy Lane, with compositions by Kurt Weill, and texts by Bertholt Brecht.
When Brecht married she refused to finish the piece, so Brecht finally did, but no one wanted to have their name attached to it - hence the pseudonym.
Throughout the performance, we are accompanied by "Bertholt Brecht" himself, in leather tie and jacket, looking very much as he did in that famous series of photographs, sitting at an antique typewriter stage left, writing down notes on a sheaf of papers.
www.americanviewsabroad.org /2007/02/happy-end-eine-magazingeschichte.html   (636 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht at LiteratureClassics.com -- essays, resources
Brecht's guiding theatrical principle related to alienating the audience from the events on stage so that they could absorb the social and political significance of the characters' actions.
Living in an era of great ideological upheaval, Brecht was influenced by the works of Karl Marx and developed his own leftist political agenda.
Times of Brecht Context - An Analysis -- Evaluates of one of his most famous texts to the ideologies of its informing context.
www.literatureclassics.com /authors/Brecht   (453 words)

  
 North Coast Journal - February 23, 2006: STAGE MATTERS: The Accidental Brecht-a-thon
Brecht uses plain language and dark humor to tell this story of a woman trying to eke out an existence selling goods from her cart to armies on the road, while protecting her three grown children from the very war that feeds them.
Brecht himself directed this play's official premiere in 1949, with his wife, actor/director Helene Weigel, as the first "Brecht girl" to play Mother Courage.
Brecht escaped to America in 1941, thanks to the support of a large expatriate German colony in Hollywood (including actor Peter Lorre, who'd worked with Brecht in Berlin) and the sponsorship of Luise Rainer, star of The Good Earth, even though they'd never met.
www.northcoastjournal.com /022306/theater0223.html   (978 words)

  
 Film der Kuhle Wampe 
Regie Slaton Dudow: Scenario: Bertholt Brecht: Ernst Ottwalt: Muziek: Hans Eisler en Josef.
Slaton Dudow beginning a film about unemployment in Germany, he was able to get Bertholt Brecht to work with him.
The resulting film displays Bertholt Brecht"s aesthetic sense in all its versatility.
users.interstroom.nl /~veldhuis/-symphonetta/index_Page360.htm   (294 words)

  
 Franck Vandenbroucke
In this famous poem Bertholt Brecht criticizes the kind of historiography that focuses almost exclusively on the protagonists in the course of human history and on the glorious accomplishments of emperors, kings and military commanders.
Names, facts and dates, battles and treaties, it used to be a dull and one-sided approach of a discipline that is sometimes considered to be "la reine des sciences".
Those who seek answers to the questions Bertholt Brecht is asking in his poem may find that the written sources tell us relatively little about the actual life and thoughts of ordinary people.
www.xpeditions.be /projects/archive/ohaarschot/frankvandenbroucke/frankvandenbroucke.html   (2024 words)

  
 BERTHOLT BRECHT
Bertholt Brecht once wrote in the song The Three Penny Opera that "human beings stay alive through bestial acts".
Für Bertholt Brecht dienen letztlich Theater und Literatur nur dazu, den domainbook.de Bundesverband Deutscher Unternehmen in der.
Februar 1898 in Augsburg als Sohn eiFebruar 1898 in Augsburg als Eugen Bertholt Brecht, Sohn des Papierfabrikdirektors Bertholt Brecht, Seit 2001 gebe ich Unterricht an der Musikschule Thesmann in Bergisch.-Gladbach/Bensberg und seit OkAlle anstehenden und gespielten Auftritte und Konzerte der Band Siamese.
www.changingthetimes.co.uk /77278c638efdc97819cf42ce70a8a1a1.php3   (551 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) : Library of Congress Citations   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brecht, Bertolt, -- 1898-1956 -- Criticism and interpretation.
English Title: The threepenny opera [by] Bertolt Brecht, with the author's notes and a foreword by Lotte Lenya.
Heading: Brecht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 References: Breht, Bertolt, 1898-1956 Brekht, Bertol'd, 1898-1956 Mprecht, Mpertolt, 1898-1956 Brekht, Bertol't, 1898-1956 Brecht, Bert, 1898-1956 Brecht, Bertold, 1898-1956 Pu-lai-hsi-t0e, 1898-1956 Pu-lai-hsi-t0e, Pei-t0o-erh-t0e, 1898-1956 Bfurehit0fu, 1898-1956 Brecht, Bertholt, 1898-1956 Bfurehit0fu, Berfut0olt0fu, 1898-1956 Brekht, B. (Bertol't), 1898-1956 Notes: His Trommeln in der Nacht, c1927.
www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/cit/citlcbrecht1.htm   (1351 words)

  
 HRC:Theory:Brecht, McLuhan and Debord   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It could be argued that this Brecht quote has potentially totalitarian implications.
Now, with the emergence of the Net, it is possible to see how every citizen could be both a producer as well as a consumer of media.
Brecht's dream of making every receiver into a transmitter is now technically possible.
www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk /hrc/theory/interviews/t.6.3[1].html   (1650 words)

  
 Brandenburg - vakantieregio rondom Berlijn: Highlights
Het zomerverblijf van de schrijver, lyricus en dramaticus Bertolt Brecht, beroemd door werken als de 'Driestuiveropera', informeert erover hoe het kunstenaarspaar hier heeft gewoond en gewerkt.
Samen met zijn vrouw Helene Weigel heeft Brecht hier tot zijn overlijden in 1956 gewoond.
Originele interieurstukken, decormaquettes, een huifkar en kostuums voor Brechts beroemde toneelstuk 'Moeder Courage en haar kinderen' illustreren de samenwerking van de toneelschrijver en de actrice.
www.vakantie-in-brandenburg.nl /pages/highlights_buckow.html   (152 words)

  
 Bertolt Brecht
BAAL, which renowned playwright Bertolt Brecht wrote when he was in college, is the provocative story of a drunken, ruthless, womanizing poet and singer, a desperate antihero in the tradition of Villon and Rimbaud.
Brecht's play is set within the context of a dispute over land claimed by two communes in the Soviet Union after World War II.
The plot revolves around a woman who depends on war for her personal survival and who is nicknamed Mother Courage for her coolness in safeguarding her merchandise under enemy fire.
www.actorsbone.com /Library/Authors/BrechtBertolt.htm   (712 words)

  
 BAAL GAMES
The characters and dramatic actions in Brecht's text were similar to what the three performers had developed and they would use that as a basis for deconstructing the play.
Theatre games were devised by the director to integrate the new actors, and after a fifteen-week period, and the new performer's personal emerged, the director aligned the members of the ensemble with Brecht's characters and work began on the text it self.
BAAL, written by Brecht when he was only 18, emulates the youthful senilities, character and actions of the ensemble.
www.sp.uconn.edu /~rojo/environmental/Baalgames.html   (242 words)

  
 John Heartfield: Reviews
The performance contained narrations from Bertholt Brecht and Marlene Dietrich, played by Rohaizad Suaidi, and Liza Davies.
Brecht began with a brief commentary that made us think about how we will perceive the show.
The vocalists performed with a great amount of talent, I was most impressed with the acting performance by Rohaizad Suaidi (Brecht).
www.towson.edu /heartfield/reviews/eldridge.html   (995 words)

  
 Essay: Mother Courage and Her Children Written By Bertholt Brecht. - Coursework.Info
Essay: Mother Courage and Her Children Written By Bertholt Brecht.
Mother Courage and Her Children Written By Bertholt Brecht.
Mother Courage and Her Children Written By Bertholt Brecht Plot And Sub-Plot The Plot of Mother Courage revolves around the life of the main character, Mother Courage, and her three Children, Eilif, Swiss Cheese and Katrrin, around the events of the Thirty Years War.
www.coursework.info /A2_and_A-Level/Business_Studies/Theory/Mother_Courage_and_Her_Children_Written_By_Bertholt_Brecht_L35432.html   (293 words)

  
 Bertolt Brechts Werke
He was one of those fertile cultural irritants whose works and views spark debate wherever and whenever they find expression.
The work of Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) holds up a mirror to the literary and political tumult of the twentieth century.
In his dramatic, poetical and theoretical texts he involves himself time and time again with the turbulent events of the times in which he lived.
brecht.chadwyck.com /english/frames/home/home   (184 words)

  
 Böcker skrivna av författaren Brecht - Bokkap.se   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brecht, Bertolt / Kuhn, Tom / Willett, John
Brecht, Bertolt / Brookes, H F / Fraenkel, C E
Brecht, Bertolt / Mueller, Carl R. Manheim, Ralph / Sauerlander, Wolfgang
www.bokkap.se /Author/Brecht   (431 words)

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