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Bertolt Brecht En Sy Epiese Teater
Bertolt Brecht en sy Epiese Teater

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Bertolt Brecht. Die Duitse dramaturg, regisseur en digter wat erken word as een van die mees belangrikste en invloedryke figure van drama in die 20ste eeu. Brecht se unieke behandeling van sosiale temas en revolutionêre eksperimente met teater elemente het ‘n geweldige groot invloed op moderne drama, toneelspel en teaterontwikkelings.

Bertolt Brecht was gebore op 10 Februarie 1898 in Augsburg, Bavaria (Duitsland). Gedurende die Eerste Wêreld Oorlog het Brecht op sestienjarige ouderdom as ‘n mediese ordonnans gedien. Reeds in 1914 het Brecht gesien watter vernietigende effek oorlog op die mensdom het.
Na die Eerste Wêreld Oorlog het Brecht Medies gestudeer aan die Universiteit van Munich. Hier was hy vreeslik beïnvloed deur ekspressionisme en het hy sy eerste werke begin skryf, dus die ontstaan van Epiese Teater in 1920. Op daardie stadium het hierdie teaterstyl nie veel invloed gehad op die teater nie, eers later na 1945 (Die Tweede Wêreld Oorlog) het Brecht se Epiese Teater ‘n groot invloed begin hê op die teater.
In 1924 het Brecht as ‘n assistent dramaturg gewerk by die Berlin Deutsches Theatre, onder leiding van Max Reinhardt. In dieselfde jaar het Brecht begin om Marxisme - ‘n leerstelling wat glo aan sosiale demokrasie, waar almal gelyk en regverdig behandel word - te studeer. Gedurende sy jare by die Deusches Theatre het Brecht in medewerking getree met Erwin Piscator, ‘n Duitse Marxisme dramaturg, asook Kurt Weill ‘n Duitse komponis. Piscator en Weill het dieselfde ploitieke siennings gehad as Bertolt Brecht.
Die toneelstuk Man is Man (Mann ist Mann) in 1926, word gekenmerk as die begin van Brecht se eksperimente met die vernuwende vervreemdingstegnieke, afgelei van die duitse term verfremdung, wat beteken om iets, anders of vreemds voor te stel. Verder vanaf 1928 tot en met Adolf

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