Bertolt Brecht
Noun
Meaning
German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)
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As Bertolt Brecht puts in his Threepenny Opera: What is the robbery of a bank compared to the foundation of a new bank?
"Alabama Song" was written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill in 1927, for their opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny).
Among the most important German writers were Thomas Mann (1875–1955), Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) and Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956).
A Guide to the Plays of Bertolt Brecht Methuen, London. 2005. pp. 120–122.
He also built on the realist tradition of Henrik Ibsen in his exploration of the individual’s conflict with society but also borrowed Symbolist and expressionist techniques from Bertolt Brecht and others.
Bertolt Brecht 's version of Coriolanus (1951) stresses this aspect.