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Bertolt Brecht
Deceased

How Did Bertolt Brecht Die?

Life & Death

Died aged 58
Also known asBert BrechtGenderMaleNationalityGerman EmpireBorn10/02/1898Born inAugsburg, GermanyDied14/08/1956 (aged 58)Died inEast BerlinCausemyocardial infarctionWikidataQ38757 ↗Buried atDorotheenstadt CemeteryTMDb#11630 ↗

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.

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Filmography8 titles

YearTitleCharacterAge at
release
2022Bertolt Brecht - FlüchtlingsgesprächeMovieLui-même124
2019BrechtSeriesHimself (archive footage)121
2019Brecht und das Berliner EnsembleMovieHimself (archive footage)121
2008Theater of WarMovieSelf (archive footage)110
2006Brecht - Die Kunst zu lebenMovieSelf (archive footage)108
2002Das Jahrhundert des TheatersSeriesSelf (archive footage)104
1987Der springende PunktMovie—89
1975Film Emigration from Nazi GermanySeriesSelf (archive footage)77