Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Bertolt Friedrich Brechtwas a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century. He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 February 1898
CityAugsburg, Germany
CountryGermany
Right is its own defense.
Don't expect the theatre to satisfy the habits of its audience, but to change them.
I don't like where I'm going and I don't like where I've been. Why am I in a hurry?
It's never too late for those whose time has come.
We need a type of theatre which not only releases the feelings, insights and impulses possible within the particular historical field of human relations in which the action takes place, but employs and encourages those thoughts and feelings which help transform the field itself.
The righteous one has no sense of humor.
...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.
I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.
Eats first, morals after.
Oh! Moon of Alabama We now must say good-bye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why!
For art to be 'unpolitical' means only to ally itself with the 'ruling' group.
What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
One cannot be arraigned for declaring a war, which every ruler has to do once in a while, but only for running a war badly.
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.