Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert 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 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Elisabeth Hauptmann and Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, Brecht wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
Filmography in the catalog
Credited on 3 films (1923–1966) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 11 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).
| Year ▼ | Title | Creator | Length | Format | Color | Sound |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | The Shameless Old Lady | unknown | 94 min | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1931 | Three penny opera | = Dreigroschenoper / Screenplay adapted by, Leo Lania, Ladislas Vajda, Bela Belaz ; from play written by Berthold Brecht ; produced and directed by, G. W. Pabst. | 113 | 16mm | B&W | sound |
| 1923 | The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop ▶ | Erwin Faber; Blandine Ebinger; Annemarie Hase; Karl Valentin; Bertolt Brecht; Erich Engel |