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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet.
Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in , where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler.
Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
During the Nazi Germany period, Brecht fled his home country, first to Scandinavia, and during World War II to the United States, where he was surveilled by the FBI. After the war, he was subpoenaed by the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Returning to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wi