Bertolt Brecht
Transcript of Bertolt Brecht
![Page 1: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
![Page 2: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
10 February 1898 – 14 August 195610 February 1898 – 14 August 1956
![Page 3: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
• Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist.
• A theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production.
‘’Spring is noticed, if at allBy people sitting in railway trains.’’
![Page 4: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
• Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria.• His mother was Protestant and his father
was Catholic. • Thanks to his mother's influence, Brecht
knew the Bible familiarity that would have a lifelong effect on his writing.
• At school in Augsburg he met Caspar Neher, with whom he formed a lifelong creative partnership, Neher designing many of the sets for Brecht's dramas and helping to forge the distinctive visual iconography of their epic theatre.
![Page 5: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The modest house where he was born is today preserved as a Brecht Museum
![Page 6: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
Brecht died on 14 August 1956 of a heart attack at the age of 58. He is buried in a cemetery on Chausseestraße in the Mitte neighbourhood of Berlin, overlooked by the residence he shared with Helene Weigel.
![Page 7: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
♥Poetry♥
• Brecht wrote hundreds of poems throughout his life. He began writing poetry as a young boy, and his first poems were published in 1914. His poetry was influenced by folk-ballads, French chansons, and the poetry of Rimbaud and Villon.
![Page 8: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
Some of Brecht's poems • A Bad Time for Poetry• Contemplating Hell• Germany• I Never Loved You More• I want to Go with the One I Love• The Mask of Evil• To Those Born After• What Has Happened?
![Page 9: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
• Drums in the Night (Trommeln in der Nacht) 1918
• Driving Out a Devil (Er treibt einen Teufel aus) 1919
• In the Jungle of Cities(Im Dickicht der Städte) 1921
• Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) 1938
• Don Juan (Don Juan) 1952
Some of Brecht's plays
![Page 10: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Quotes
• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
• Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
• Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
![Page 11: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
General, man is very useful. He can fly and he can kill.But he has one defect:He can think.
-Bertolt Brecht
![Page 12: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
References
• Famous Poets and Poems . com
• Wikipedia
• Wikiquote
• Google Images
![Page 13: Bertolt Brecht](https://reader035.fdocuments.us/reader035/viewer/2022081418/555983c0d8b42a60298b585f/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)