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Bertolt Brecht

Died in 1956

Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg in 1898 and in 1918 served as an orderly in a military hospital in his home town. Settled in Berlin in 1924, he developed there an epic, then dialectical theatre, which keeps the spectator at a distance so as to lead him to judge rather than to identify. Exiled in 1933, he lived in Denmark, Sweden, Finland, then California, where in 1947 he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. Back in Europe, he settled in East Berlin in 1949 and founded the Berliner Ensemble there with Helene Weigel. He died in East Berlin in 1956.

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