Bertolt Brecht: Leben und Werk im Bild

Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger

Insel-Verlag, 1979 - Literary Criticism - 278 pages

Contents

• Vom armen B B: 9
• Augsburg 18981917: 18
• AugsburgMünchen 19171924: 40

About the author

Bertolt Brecht was born on February 10, 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria, and died on August 14, 1956. He was a German playwright, theatre director and Marxist. The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum. Brecht formed a writing collective which became prolific and very influential. He wrote many lyrics for musicals and collaborated with Kurt Weill to create Die Dregroschenoper -- the biggest hit in 1920s Berlin. Brecht experimented with his own theater and company -- the Berliner Ensemble -- which put on his plays under his direction and which continued after his death with the assistance of his wife. Brecht aspired to create political theater, and it is difficult to evaluate his work in purely aesthetic terms. Brecht died in 1956.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Bertolt Brecht: Leben und Werk im Bild; Volume 406 of Insel Taschenbuch
• Authors: Bertolt Brecht, Lion Feuchtwanger
• Editor: Lion Feuchtwanger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Insel-Verlag, 1979
• Original from: the University of Michigan
• Digitized: Mar 19, 2008
• ISBN: 3458321063, 9783458321064
• Length: 278 pages
• Subjects: Literary Criticism / Drama; Literary Criticism / European / German