Author: Bertolt Brecht
Profile: Bertolt Berthold Friedrich Brecht, better known professionally as Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright and theatre practitioner. He was born in Augsburg, Germany and died in East Berlin. Brecht started writing poems as a young boy and continued writing hundreds of them till the end. Friedrich Brecht and Eugen Berthold were his alternative titles. His epic theatre exited from theatrical illusion conventions and advanced into drama as an ideological and social forum for leftist convictions. Despite going to exile in Denmark, Scandinavia and United States, many of his plays gained popularity.
Writing style: All through his life Bertolt Brecht wrote hundreds of poems most of which was influenced by the poetry of Villon and Rimbaud, French chansons and fold-ballads. Svendborger Gedichte was his last collection of new poetry in 1939.
Published Texts:
Awards and Acknowledgements:
1954 – Lenin Peace Prize
1922 – Kleist Prize
1970 – Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Lyrics (Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny)
1956 – Obie Award for Best Musical (The Threepenny Opera)
Fiction
Stories of Mr.Keuner
1934 – Threepenny Novel
1957 – The Business Affairs of Mr. Julius Caesar
Plays
1918/1923 – Baal
1918-20/1922 – Drums in the Night
1919 – The Beggar
1919/1926 – A Respectable Wedding
1919 – Driving Out a Devil
1919 – Lux in Tenebris
1919 – The Catch
1923 – Mysteries of a Barbershop
1921-24/1923 – In the Jungle of Cities
1924/1924 – The Life of Edward II of England
1926-30/1974 – Downfall of the Egotist Johann Fatzer
1924-26/1926 – Man Equals Man
1924-26/1926 – The Elephant Calf
1927/1927 – Little Mahagonny
1928/1928 – The Threepenny Opera
1928-29/1929 – The Flight across the Ocean
1929/1929 – The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent
1929/1929 – Happy End
1927-29/1930 – The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1929-30/1930 – He Said Yes / He Said No
1930/1930 – The Decision
1929-31/1959 – Saint Joan of the Stockyards
1930/1938 – The Exception and the Rule
1930-31/1932 – The Mother
1931/1932 – Kuhle Wampe
1933/1933 – The Seven Deadly Sins
1932-34/1936 – Round Heads and Pointed Heads
1933-34/1958 – The Horatians and the Curiatians
1935-38/1938 – Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
1937/1937 – Senora Carrar’s Rifles
1937-39/1943 – Life of Galileo
1939/1939 – How Much Is Your Iron?
1939 – Dansen
1938-39/1941 – Mother Courage and Her Children
1938-39/1940 – The Trial of Lucullus
1940 – The Judith of Shimoda
1940 – The Judith of Shimoda
1940/1948 – Mr.Puntila and his Man Matti
1939-42/1943 – The Good Person of Szechwan
1941/1948 – The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1942/1943 – Hangmen Also Die!
1942-43/1957 – The Visions of Simone Machard
1943/1943 – The Duchess of Malfi
1941-43/1957 – Schweik in the Second World War
1943-45/1948 – The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1947/1948 – Antigone
1948-49/1956 – The Days of the Commune
1950/1950 – The Tutor
1938-39/1951 – The Condemnation of Lucullus
1951/1951 – Report from Hermburg
1951-53/1962 – Coriolanus
1952/1952 – The Trial of Joan of Arc of Proven, 1431
1953-54/1969 – Turandot
1952/1954 – Don Juan
1955/1955 – Trumpets and Drums
Theoretical works
1930 – The Modern Theatre Is the Epic Theatre
1931 – The Threepenny Lawsuit
1935-1939 – The Book of Changes
1950 – The Street Scene
1958 – The Popular and the Realistic
1951 – Short Description of a New Technique of Acting which Produces and Alienation Effect
1949 – A Short Organum for the Theatre
1963 – The Messingkauf Dialogues