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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1130 words (4.52 pages) in the essay titled song of myself EUGEN BERTHOLD FRIEDRICH BRECHT, was born on February 10th 1898 in Augsburg Germany, and died on August 14th, 1956, in East Berlin. He was a German poet, playwright, and theatrical reformer whose epic theatre departed from the conventions of theatrical illusion and developed the drama as a social and ideological forum for leftist causes.Until 1924 Brecht lived in Bavaria, where he was born. He studied medicine at the University of Munich, from 1917 until 1921, and served at an army hospital in 1918). From this period dates his first play, “Baal”, produced in 1923. His first success, “Trommeln in der Nacht”, won the Kleist Preis in 1922. His first professional production was Edward II, in 1924. This period in his life showed his great admiration for Wedekind, Rimbaud, Villon, and Kipling. During this period he developed an antibourgeois attitude that reflected his generation s deep disappointment in the civilization that had come crashing down at the end of World War I. Among Brecht s friends were members of the Dadaist group, who aimed at destroying what they condemned as the false standards of bourgeois art through derision and iconoclastic satire. The man who taught him the elements of Marxism in the late 1920s was Karl Korsch, an eminent Marxist theoretician who had been a Communist member of the Reichstag but had been expelled from the German Communist Party in 1926. He moved to Berlin in 1924, where he worked briefly for the directors Max Reinhardt and Erwin P... |
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