Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), 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 Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the Verfremdungseffekt. When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Brecht fled his home country, initially to Scandinavia. During World War II he moved to Southern California, where he established himself as a screenwriter while being surveilled by the FBI. In 1947, he was part of the first group of Hollywood film artists to be subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee for alleged Communist Party affiliations. The day after testifying, he returned to Europe, eventually settling in East Berlin, where he co-founded the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bertolt Brecht, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Фільмографія

• 2025Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei — Theatre Play
• 2025The Good Person of Szechwan — Writer
• 2024A Santa Joana dos Matadouros — Writer
• 2024The Change of the Wheel — Novel
• 2022Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche — Lui-même
• 2021The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala — Writer
• 2020Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed — Story
• 2020The Good Man from Szechuan — Writer
• 2019Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — Writer
• 2018Trommeln in der Nacht — Theatre Play
• 2016National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera — Musical, Lyricist
• 2013Marianne — Writer
• 2012Alter Bahnhof Video Walk — Writer
• 2011The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — Lyricist, Writer
• 2009Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment — Novel
• 2007Canção de Baal — Theatre Play, Lyricist
• 2007Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — Book
• 2004Baal — Novel
• 2002Le cercle de craie caucasien — Author
• 2000The Seduction of Angels — Poem
• 2000The Threepenny Opera — Music, Book
• 1998The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — Writer, Lyricist
• 1997The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui — Theatre Play
• 1996The Career of Arturo Ui — Theatre Play
• 1995The Threepenny Opera — Book, Music
• 1993The Seven Deadly Sins — Writer
• 1992Antigone — Theatre Play
• 1992La vie de Galilée — Author
• 1989Der Mantel des Ketzers — Story
• 1989Mack the Knife — Original Story
• 1989Мещанская свадьба — Story
• 1988Die Bestie — Story
• 1987Der springende Punkt
• 1985Anna Firling's Roads — Theatre Play
• 1985The Caucasian Chalk Circle — Writer
• 1984Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı — Screenplay
• 1982Baal — Writer, Theatre Play
• 1981Fear and Misery of the Third Reich — Writer, Theatre Play
• 1981Svatba — Theatre Play
• 1980Germany Pale Mother — Poem
• 1980No. 18: Mahagonny — Writer
• 1980The Tailor of Ulm — Poem
• 1979Brecht and Co — Writer
• 1979Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell — Story
• 1979Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti — Theatre Play
• 1979Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny — Writer
• Das Leben des Galileo Galilei — Writer
• 1978Låt er inte förföras — Writer
• 1978The Life Story of Baal — Theatre Play
• 1976Der Hofmeister — Writer
• 1976O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro — Theatre Play
• 1975Death of the Flea Circus Director — Theatre Play
• 1975Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar — Novel
• 1975Galileo — Theatre Play
• 1974Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui — Writer
• 1974Dificuldade de Governar — Poem
• 1974I Was, I Am, I Will Be — Poem
• 1974Mahagonny — Writer, Lyricist
• 1974Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti — Author
• 1973The Good Person of Szechwan — Theatre Play
• 1972History Lessons — Novel
• 1972The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui — Adaptation
• 1972Trummor i natten — Theatre Play
• 1971Arturo Ui — Novel
• 1970Baal — Story
• 1970Bubny a trumpety — Theatre Play
• 1969Schweik in World War II — Original Story
• 1968Im Dickicht der Städte — Writer
• 1968Regeln och undantaget — Writer
• 1966Der gute Mensch von Sezuan — Writer
• BBC Play of the Month — Theatre Play
• 1965Life of Galileo — Theatre Play
• 1965The Shameless Old Lady — Novel
• 1964The Life of Galileo — Theatre Play
• 1963Pušky paní Carrarové — Theatre Play
• 1963The Threepenny Opera — Lyricist, Writer
• 1962Kavkazský křídový kruh — Theatre Play
• 1962Leben des Galilei — Story
• 1961Księżyc z Alabamy — Author
• 1961Mother Courage and Her Children — Story
• 1960Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti — Theatre Play
• 1960Zadržitelný vzestup Artura Uie — Theatre Play
• 1958Der kaukasische Kreidekreis — Author
• 1957Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder — Screenplay
• 1955Pušky paní Carrarové — Theatre Play
• 1954Song of the Rivers — Writer
• 1952Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten — Lyricist
• 1947Leben des Galilei — Theatre Play
• 1943Hangmen Also Die! — Adaptation, Original Story
• 1942Schweik is Preparing For Battle — Lyricist
• 1942The Murderers Are Coming — Short Story
• 1932Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World? — Screenplay
• 1931A Man's a Man — Director, Writer
• 1931The 3 Penny Opera — Story, Theatre Play
• 1931The Threepenny Opera — Lyricist, Writer
• 1923The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop — Director, Writer
• An den kleinen Radioapparat — Original Story, Lyricist

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (7)

• Brecht — Himself (archive footage)
• 2019Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble — Himself (archive footage)
• 2008Theater of War — Self (archive footage)
• 2006Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben — Self (archive footage)
• Das Jahrhundert des Theaters — Self (archive footage)
• 1990Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt — Self (archive footage)
• Film Emigration from Nazi Germany — Self (archive footage)