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* ''[[Don Juan (Brecht)|Don Juan]]'' (''Don Juan'') 1952/1954 * ''[[Don Juan (Brecht)|Don Juan]]'' (''Don Juan'') 1952/1954
* ''[[Trumpets and Drums (play)|Trumpets and Drums]]'' (''Pauken und Trompeten'') 1955/1955 * ''[[Trumpets and Drums (play)|Trumpets and Drums]]'' (''Pauken und Trompeten'') 1955/1955
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 +== Brecht in fiction ==
 +* ''[[Brecht at Night]]'' by [[Mati Unt]], transl. [[Eric Dickens]] ([[Dalkey Archive Press]], 2009)
 +* In [[The Lives of Others]], a [[Stasi]] agent is partially inspired to save a playwright he has been spying on by reading a book of Brecht poetry that he had stolen from the artist's apartment.
 +* In the [[ABC Family]] series ''[[The Middleman (TV series)|The Middleman]]'' episode "The Obsolescent Cryogenic Meltdown", the show's title character quotes Brecht, "Hungry, man? Reach for a book. It is a weapon".
 +* In the 2007 film [[The Savages (film)|The Savages]], the character Jon, played by [[Phillip Seymour Hoffman]] is a theater professor working on a book about Brecht.
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Bertolt Brecht (born February 10, 1898August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist, dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. He is best-known for such plays as Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera, as well as his only screenplay Hangmen Also Die.

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