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Introduction/Biography. Bertolt Brecht, a dramatist, stage director and poet, was born on February 10th 1898 in the city of Augsberg, Germany. Brecht was baptised as Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brecht after his farther Bertolt Friedrich Brecht, who was a catholic and worked as a chief clerk in a paper factory. His mother Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie Brezing, who was a protestant, was ill with breast cancer most of his young life. Brecht was very ill as a child and suffered from congenital heart condition and facial tics he also suffered a heart attack at the age of 12 but he recovered and went on with the rest of his education. Brecht died of a heart attack on August 14, 1956 while working on a response to Samual Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is buried in the Dorotheenfriedhof in Berlin. Brechts theatre. Brecht believed the theatre should give pleasure to the audience and they should learn something...

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