The German playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) inspired extremes of loyalty and antipathy. Brilliant, charismatic and seductive, he was professionally unreliable and personally deceptive.

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Twenty years ago, John Fuegi created an uproar with the scathing “Brecht & Co.,” which asserted with formidable documentation that one of the 20th century’s most revered playwrights was at best only ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. One of the fascinations of Brecht is that although he paved the way forward to a degree of arid avant-gardism at the Berliner Ensemble ...

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Since the death of Bertolt Brecht in 1956 in East Berlin, the Soviet empire has collapsed, the Cold War was ended and the East German satrapy that Brecht fled to when he feared that his past might ...

Bertolt Brecht is still celebrated worldwide today. His plays are performed in various Theaters around the world, his texts are read, the International Brecht Society publishes the Brecht Yearbook ...

Bertolt Brecht is back at the National Theatre this season and Enron, Lucy Prebble's hit, has been lauded as Brechtian epic theatre. Enron restages high capitalist ...