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Bert Brecht

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He aimed and worked during all his life for peace. Peace is necessary to develop life and to have evolution in art, he said. Independence of mind was the most important to him. As soon as it was menaced he withdrew himself: from the Bavarian province to Berlin, then, escaping war and fascism once around the world, finally to East-Berlin, where he hoped to get his own theatre, the „Berliner Ensemble“. His plays showed a radical new theatre: near to the public, sensual, entertaining and teaching , the „epic theatre“. He wrote 48 plays and about 2000 poems. No one – except Shakespeare – is presented more often throughout the world. The songs he made together with Hanns Eisler and Kurt Weil have become top-hits: The ballad of Mac the knife, the Alabama song and much more.

His wife Helene Weigel kept him free from organization and logistics to concentrate on his artistic work: He was faithful to her as he was faithful to others (as his daughter Barbara says). Elisabeth Hauptmann, Margarete Steffin, Ruth Berlau, Regine Lutz, Käthe Reichel, Marieluise Fleisser and others and more of these intelligent avantgarde women felt attracted by him and became members of his artistic collective. They worked for him up to sacrificing themselves.

Regine Lutz, remembering him: „He was.... he was..... (and you should see her face now) ... and the more he made laugh.......


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