From a newspaper to the theatre

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright and theatre director who was born in February 10th 1898 and died in August 4th 1956. His father was a Catholic and his mother a Protestant. His father had a job in a paper factory, and his mother didn’t have a job. He had one brother named Walter. 

As a kid, Brecht had a lot of health problems with his heart and his face. 

He began writing in high school. During that time, he ended up co-founding and co-editing a school magazine called The Harvest. He was sixteen when he wrote his first play for a local newspaper. The play was named The Bible. It was about a girl who had to choose between living and dying but saving many others. He left school when he was nineteen because of his health problems. 

Brecht's four great plays were written between 1938 and 1945. These included The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children; The Good Woman of Setzuan and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.

He first experimented some writing styles such as Dadaism and expressionism, but then he developed his own writing style and continued with that. 

Brech received the National Prize in 1951. He won the Lenin Peace Prize. 

Now, Brecht’s plays are being showed all around the world.