Bertolt Brecht - Bertolt Brecht - This website features the playright Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century.
Bertolt Brecht - Bertolt Brecht - Born in Augsburg, Bavaria to a mother of Protestant descent and a Catholic father who was director of a paper company[1], Brecht studied medicine and worked briefly as an orderly in a hospital in Munich during World War I. After the war he moved to Berlin where an influential critic, Herbert Ihering, brought him to the attention of a public longing for modern theatre.