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Bertolt Brecht
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Noun1.Bertolt Brecht - German dramatist and poet who developed a style of epic theater (1898-1956)


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As a bow to popular culture, Munich renovated and revamped a museum in the city's medieval Isar Gate dedicated to Karl Valentin, the beloved Munich-born, Chaplin-like comedian and cabaret artist, who collaborated with Berthold Brecht and was much admired further afield by the likes of Samuel Beckett.
Laughton and the McCarthy era In 1956, Laughton, a wartime friend of Berthold Brecht in whose Galileo he'd appeared, grovelled before the House Un-American Activities Committee after receiving an invitation to attend an East Berlin memorial following Brecht's death.
Gena Turgel, who lived through the Holocaust, read an extract from her book I Light a Candle, while Seamus Heaney read a Berthold Brecht poem.
 
 
 
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