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The Brecht 's Influence On The World War I

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Bertolt Brecht was born in a German town called Augsburg, on the 10th February 1898. Before 1924, he continued to live in Bavaria where he studied medicine in Munich from 1917-1921. In 1918, Brecht worked helping at an Army hospital during the First World War, and in doing so, started creating his own plays. In this time, he wrote plays such as: ‘Trommeln in der Nacht’ (Drums in the Night – 1922), ‘Baal’ (produced in 1923) and his primary professional production: ‘Edward II’ (1924). After being so horrified by the effects of war he decided to travel to Munich (then following on to Berlin), where he would begin his desired career in theatre. Within this period, Brecht established a vicious hatred towards the middle-class which imitated the people (of that time) being so let down by their generations civilization which had been crushed after the end of World War I. Brecht was influenced by his friends with their Dadaist ideals; aiming to abolish any pieces of bourgeois art that had been condemned as a dishonest standard, from iconoclastic satirical pieces and mockery. Brecht was then educated on Marxist views by Karl Korsch in the late 20s. Korsch was a Marxist theoretician and a communist in the Reichstag who, in 1926, had been excluded and forbidden from the German Communist Party. From 1924 to 1933, Brecht worked for German directors Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt in Berlin, alongside his own collection of companions. In 1928, Brecht and the composer Kurt Weill wrote the

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