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Bertolt Brecht Biography

Bertolt Brecht was born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht on 10 February in Augsburg, Germany, to middle-class parents. As a young man, he studied medicine and served as an orderly in an army hospital, successfully avoiding active duty in World War I.

When studying medicine at Munich University, Brecht was introduced to drama for the first time.

Brecht soon began writing theatre reviews in newspapers until he completed his first play, Baal, at the age of just twenty.

His second play, Drums in the Night, was performed in Munich in Brecht moved to Berlin in to further his career as a dramatist.

Alongside writing theatre reviews and plays, Brecht wrote many poems and theories on numerous aspects of theatre performance.

He soon became an accomplished director and was influenced by fellow German theatre director Erwin Piscator. The two men, both Marxists, would become the foremost practitioners of epic theatre, a form of theatre that advocated social and pol