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
The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot.
First feed the face, then talk right and wrong.
A theater without beer is just a museum
For once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts.
Who fights may lose, but who does not fight has lost already.
You have to attack once the truth is too weak to defend itself.
A person is really dead only when nobody thinks of him anymore.
The fanatics for progress often have too little appreciation of the existing.
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.