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The Man Who Put Germany on Stage
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In 1999, the theatergoers of the whole world celebrated the 101st anniversary
of his birth. Eugene Bertolt Friedrich Brecht was born on February, 10
in 1898 in Augsburg,
Bavaria. Brecht was an outstanding personality: a poet, a
playwright, a theatrical reformer. His success started with Trommeln
in der Nacht (1919) and continued with the world-famous Die Dreigroschenoper
(1928) which he created in cooperation with the composer Kurt Weill. This
play proved to be Brecht's greatest work and was extremely popular with
the middle-class public.
Mutter Courage und Ihre Kinder and Die Massnahme also
contributed to Brecht's glory. The latter became the aftermath of his
Marxist studies which began after 1926.
In 1930's Brecht's works and books were banned and even burnt in Germany,
and he went into exile, first to Finland, where he lived as a guest of
Finnish author Hella Wuolijoki, writing with her the play Herr Puntila
und Sein Knecht Matti (1940) and making her jealous because of rumors
of his affairs with other women. From Finland Brecht moved to the United
States with financial help from his friend and fellow exile, Lion
Feuchtwanger. Accused of his pro-communist leanings by the Committee
on Un-American Activities, Brecht left the USA in 1947.
After the exile Bertolt Brecht went to Zurich where he created his theoretical
work A Little Organum for the Theatre. Afterwards he moved to
Berlin where he founded his own Marxist theater Berliner
Ensemble.
In the middle 1950's the playwright was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize.
His works were translated into 42 languages.
Related links:
Bertolt Brecht
All about the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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