Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht is a famous Germany Marxist poet and playwright. He was born in 10 Feb,1898. He was born in a middle class family, he studied medicine at university of Munich and served in the army hospital during the First World War. He has "anti-war" and "anti-bourgeois" attitude, and reflect his anger to the society by the play and poem. His main famous works include: The Beggar, Life of Galileo,  The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage and Her Children. He came up with the idea of "epic theatre" and "the alienation effect" which means a kind of audience relationship, he wanted audiences to both engage emotionally in the scene but be able to stand outside and make a judgement. He was a Marxist and against nazi part in the public. Because of the policy, he was force to escape from Nazis. He went to Switzerland, Denmark, American Hollywood and a lot of places. At that time, his works were destroyed in Germany. Although 15 years of exile was hard, this made him get more ideas about people life, and he wrote those in his poetry and play. During that time, he wrote most of his great plays and poetry. In 1949, Brecht returned to Germany and lived in east Berlin.