Bertolt Brecht, a theater revolutionary, poet of the state, and outsider, looks back on his life in East Berlin in1956, the year he died. He talks about his provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, his early poetic and romantic height flights in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, his escape from Hitler and time in the US, and his later years when he was stuck between being a timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an inflexible free man and a compromised
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Bertolt Brecht, a theater revolutionary, poet of the state, and outsider, looks back on his life in East Berlin in1956, the year he died. He talks about his provocations in Augsburg during the First World War, his early poetic and romantic height flights in Munich and Berlin in the 1920s, his escape from Hitler and time in the US, and his later years when he was stuck between being a timeless classic and a failing GDR class fighter, an inflexible free man and a compromised
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