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Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, poet, and theatre director.
* He was born in Augsburg, Germany, in 1898.
* He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Munich.
* He was a communist and was forced to flee Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power.
* He lived in exile in Scandinavia and the United States until 1949, when he returned to East Germany.
* He is best known for his plays The Threepenny Opera and Mother Courage and Her Children.
* He died in Berlin in 1956.
* His work is still performed all over the world and is considered to be some of the most important in 20th century theatre.