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Bertolt Brecht was born on February 19, 1898 was a German playwright, theatre director ,and marxist. He studied philosophy and medicine at the University of Munich before becoming a medical orderly in the German military hospital during WWI. This experienced reinforced his hatred of war and influenced his support for failed socialist revolution in 1919. From this Bertolt started his “Epic” journey. Bertolt and his wife founded a post-war theatre company by the name of “Berliner Ensemble”. Bertolt and his wife went on many tours and hosted many performances. He made many contributions to Dramaturgy and theatrical production. On August 15, 1956 Bertolt died of a heart-attack and poor chronic conditions. Both his plays and his legacy remain the subject of a much heated debate more than 50 years later. Brecht's influence on contemporary theater has been both considerable and problematic. There is no doubt that the setting and costumes of his productions are the features that have most influenced contemporary theater. His legacy lives on. (Jerquisha Figures)
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Vladimir Mayakovsky was born July 19,1893. He went through a rough childhood which inspired a lot of his plays and poems. He was a Russian poet and playwright. In 1912 his poems Night and morning were published, these were his first publications. He was later expelled from the Moscow School of Art, because of his political activities. He began reciting his poems in front of live crowds in 1918 which is the same year his first play Mystery-Bouffe was performed. He was one of the few soviet poets that was allowed to travel with his works.
His legacy lives on he has a town named after him and one of his famous phrases has now become a cliche in Moscow. He also has a rail station and museum named after him in Georgia Russia. His plays are also still performed in Moscow today.
(Roy Blake)
His legacy lives on he has a town named after him and one of his famous phrases has now become a cliche in Moscow. He also has a rail station and museum named after him in Georgia Russia. His plays are also still performed in Moscow today.
(Roy Blake)
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Erwin Piscator was born December 17, 1893. Having studied at the König school of dramatic art and at the university, Piscator began as a volunteer at the Hof Theater in Munich. He became in turn an actor and a director. He was married to Maria Ley and Hildegard Jurczyk. German director was the first to introduce the term epic theatre in 1924, describing the staging strategies he employed in directing Paquet's play Flags. He was the originator of the epic theatre style later developed by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht. Piscator frankly used the theatre to convey radical political instruction, and he sympathized at the time with the German working class. A bold innovator, he used films and newsreels to enlarge landscapes and convey mass events, and he employed many optical, acoustical, and mechanical devices to create an experience of total theatre. His passion for machinery could be self-defeating: blaring loudspeakers, flashing lights, air-raid sirens, and revolving sets sometimes obscured his message. Piscator and Brecht modernized traditional epic device through means of technology adding screen projections, titles, and machinery of expansion as devices of breaking the stage illusion. He died on March 30, 1966 in Starnberg, Bavaria, Germany.