Bertolt Brecht

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1898 age 0

   Born

2. 1923 age 25

   CreditMysteries of a Barbershopdirector

3. 1932 age 34

   CreditKuhle Wampe or Who Owns the World?screenwriter

4. 1942 age 44

   CreditThe Murderers are Comingscreenwriter

5. 1943 age 45

   CreditHangmen Also Die!screenwriter

6. 1956 age 58

   Died

• HEHanns Eisler2 titles
• LALouis V. Arco1 title
• HTHans Heinrich von Twardowski1 title
• LDLester Dorr1 title
• GWGuy Wilkerson1 title
• CMCharles Middleton1 title
• PZPhilip Van Zandt1 title
• JHJames Wong Howe1 title
• CCChester Conklin1 title
• RARichard Alexander1 title

• Spouse

  • HWHelene Weigel

• Taught

  • JLJoseph Losey
  • WBWolf Biermann

Nothing recorded for: Partner, Parents, Children, Siblings, Influenced by, Studied under.

• 
  Photo:Kolbe, JörgCC BY-SA 3.0 de

• People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0

• But something's missing (Aber etwas fehlt).

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0

• A man who strains himself on the stage is bound, if he is any good, to strain all the people sitting in the stalls.

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The main objective is to learn to think crudely. Crude thinking is the great one's thinking.

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Do not treat me in this fashion. Don't leave me out. Have I not<br>Always spoken the truth in my books? And now<br>You treat me like a liar! I order you:<br>Burn me!<br>

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The theater-goer in conventional dramatic theater says: Yes, I've felt that way, too. That's the way I am. That's life. That's the way it will always be. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is no escape for him. That's great art — Everything is self-evident. I am made to cry with those who cry, and laugh with those who laugh. But the theater-goer in the epic theater says: I would never have thought that. You can't do that. That's very strange, practically unbelievable. That has to stop. The suffering of this or that person grips me because there is an escape for him. That's great art — nothing is self-evident. I am made to laugh about those who cry, and cry about those who laugh.

  Bertolt Brecht, CC BY-SA 4.0