Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century.

Major works

Because several Brecht works were not performed until long after they were written, the dates below show both the year they were written, followed by the year they were first produced.

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• Baal (1918/1926)
• Drums in the Night (1918-20)
• In the Jungle of the Cities/ In the Swamp (1921-23)
• Man is Man (1924-25)
• The Threepenny Opera (1928)
• Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny (1928-29)/(1930)
• The Baden Lehrstück (leasson-piece) on Consent (1928-29)
• He Who Says Yes (1929)
• Saint Joan of the Stockyards (1929/1959)
• He Who Says No (1930)
• The Measures Taken (1930)
• The Mother (Die Mutter) (1930/1932)
• The Exception and the Rule (1930-31)/(1936)
• A short play about the exploitation of men. The characters undergo harsh treatment from a wealthy merchant with a lucrative interest in the imaginary deserts of Yahi.

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• The Seven Deadly Sins (1933)
• The Roundheads and the Peakheads (1931-36)
• Fear and Misery of the Third Reich (1935-38)
• Señora Carrara's Rifles (Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar) (1937/1937)
• based loosely on J.M. Synge's Riders to the Sea, but relocated by Brecht in the Spanish Civil War
• Mother Courage and Her Children (Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) (1939/1941)
• The Trial of Lucullus(1939)
• Galileo (Leben des Galilei) (1938/1943)
• The Good Woman of Setzuan (1940)
• Puntila and His Man Matti (1941)
• The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941/1961)
• Schweik in the Second World War (1941-44)
• The Visions of Simone Machard (1941-44) w/ Lion Feuchtwanger
• Caucasian Chalk Circle (Der kaukasische Kreidekreis) (1944-45)
• The Days of the Commune (1948-49)
• The Tutor (1950)