Bertolt Brecht
Writing
1898-02-10 · Augsburg, Germany
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.
Filmography
The Good Person of Szechwan
2025 · Movie
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar / Würgendes Blei
2025 · Movie
A Santa Joana dos Matadouros
2024 · Movie
The Change of the Wheel
2024 · Movie
Bertolt Brecht - Flüchtlingsgespräche
2022 · Movie
The Seven Deadly Sins / Mahagonny Song Play - Teatro Alla Scala
2021 · Movie
The Good Man from Szechuan
2020 · Movie
Rules of the Assembly Line, at High Speed
2020 · Movie
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2019 · Movie
Brecht
2019 · Series
Brecht und das Berliner Ensemble
2019 · Movie
Trommeln in der Nacht
2018 · Movie
National Theatre Live: The Threepenny Opera
2016 · Movie
Marianne
2013 · Movie
Alter Bahnhof Video Walk
2012 · Movie
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2011 · Movie
Corneille-Brecht ou Rome l'unique objet de mon ressentiment
2009 · Movie
Theater of War
2008 · Movie
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
2007 · Movie
Canção de Baal
2007 · Movie
Brecht - Die Kunst zu leben
2006 · Movie
Baal
2004 · Movie
Le cercle de craie caucasien
2002 · Movie
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters
2002 · Series
The Threepenny Opera
2000 · Movie
The Seduction of Angels
2000 · Movie
The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1998 · Movie
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1997 · Movie
The Career of Arturo Ui
1996 · Movie
The Threepenny Opera
1995 · Movie
The Seven Deadly Sins
1993 · Movie
Antigone
1992 · Movie
La vie de Galilée
1992 · Movie
Carola Neher - Todesursache unbekannt
1990 · Movie
Mack the Knife
1989 · Movie
Der Mantel des Ketzers
1989 · Movie
Мещанская свадьба
1989 · Movie
Die Bestie
1988 · Movie
Der springende Punkt
1987 · Movie
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
1985 · Movie
Anna Firling's Roads
1985 · Movie
Sade Vatandaş Şvayk Hitler'e Karşı
1984 · Movie
Baal
1982 · Movie
Fear and Misery of the Third Reich
1981 · Movie
Svatba
1981 · Movie
Germany Pale Mother
1980 · Movie
No. 18: Mahagonny
1980 · Movie
The Tailor of Ulm
1980 · Movie
Die Rache des Kapitäns Mitchell
1979 · Movie
Herr Puntila And His Servant Matti
1979 · Movie
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
1979 · Movie
Brecht and Co
1979 · Movie
The Life Story of Baal
1978 · Movie
Låt er inte förföras
1978 · Movie
Das Leben des Galileo Galilei
1978 · Series
O Gesto, a Festa, a Mensagem - Dois Mil Anos de Teatro
1976 · Movie
Der Hofmeister
1976 · Movie
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
1975 · Series
Death of the Flea Circus Director
1975 · Movie
Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar
1975 · Movie
Galileo
1975 · Movie
I Was, I Am, I Will Be
1974 · Movie
Mahagonny
1974 · Movie
Mr. Puntilla and His Man Matti
1974 · Movie
Der aufhaltsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui
1974 · Movie
Dificuldade de Governar
1974 · Movie
The Good Person of Szechwan
1973 · Movie
The Gangster Show: The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
1972 · Movie
History Lessons
1972 · Movie
Trummor i natten
1972 · Movie
Bubny a trumpety
1970 · Movie
Baal
1970 · Movie
Schweik in World War II
1969 · Movie
Im Dickicht der Städte
1968 · Movie
Regeln och undantaget
1968 · Movie
Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
1966 · Movie
BBC Play of the Month
1965 · Series
The Shameless Old Lady
1965 · Movie
Life of Galileo
1965 · Movie
The Life of Galileo
1964 · Movie
Pušky paní Carrarové
1963 · Movie
The Threepenny Opera
1963 · Movie
Kavkazský křídový kruh
1962 · Movie
Leben des Galilei
1962 · Movie
Mother Courage and Her Children
1961 · Movie
Księżyc z Alabamy
1961 · Movie
Herr Puntila and His Servant Matti
1960 · Movie
Zadržitelný vzestup Artura Uie
1960 · Movie
Der kaukasische Kreidekreis
1958 · Movie
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder
1957 · Movie
Pušky paní Carrarové
1955 · Movie
Song of the Rivers
1954 · Movie
Wilhelm Pieck - Das Leben unseres Präsidenten
1952 · Movie
Leben des Galilei
1947 · Movie
Hangmen Also Die!
1943 · Movie
Schweik is Preparing For Battle
1942 · Movie
The Murderers Are Coming
1942 · Movie
Kuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?
1932 · Movie
A Man's a Man
1931 · Movie
The Threepenny Opera
1931 · Movie
The 3 Penny Opera
1931 · Movie
The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop
1923 · Movie
An den kleinen Radioapparat
Movie