The two-part, three-hour documentary drama Brecht, directed by Heinrich Breloer, portrays how Bertolt Brecht (portrayed by actor Tom Schilling) turned into the star of German theater during the Weimar Republic.
As a student, he was nearly expelled from school for writing in an unpatriotic essay that argued that only empty-headed people would be willing to die for their country.
He was then quickly celebrated as a wild, young poet-genius with his first full-length play, Baal, written in and first staged five years later.
An international classic: The Threepenny Opera
His following play, Drums in the Night (written in and first produced in ), anchored his reputation as a playwright. "At 24, the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's literary complexion overnight," wrote one influential Berlin critic at the time of the rising star.
Brecht's lyrics set to music by Kurt Weill in The Threepenny Opera () became the biggest
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| Bertolt Brecht was born in Germany and studied medicin and philosophy at the University of Munich, where he increasingly devoted han själv to writing poetry and plays, presenting his first successful teaterpjäs in It was in Bavaria that he served as a medical orderly and developed his antipathy to war and his interest in communism. It was also at this time that he began to crystallize his ideas for “epic theater.” He theorized that the audience shou • Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; 10 February –14 August ) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director. His collaboration with composer Kurt Weill in particular created popular music classics such as Mack The Knife and Alabama Song. An influential theatre practitioner of the twentieth century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble — the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife and long-time collaborator, the actress Helene Weigel — with its internationally acclaimed productions. From his late twenties Brecht remained a life-long committed Marxist who, in developing the combined theory and practice of his 'epic theatre', synthesized and extended the experiments of Erwin Piscator and Vsevolod Meyerhold to explore the theatre as a forum for political ideas and the creation of a crit 
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