TWA Poet: Bertolt Brecht

1898 - 1956

It's the birthday of playwright and poet Bertolt Brecht, born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht in Augsburg, Bavaria (1898). He studied philosophy, drama and medicine at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich where he first experimented with writing poetry and plays.

Following the death of his mother in 1920, he began writing plays in earnest. His firs…