About Brecht!!!

Yesterday, I researched about Galileo because there will be a play called Galileo in our school by varsity players. Today, I am going to tell a little about the playwright Brecht who wrote Galileo. 

Bertolt Brecht was a German playwright, poet, and theater director. He was born February 10, 1898 in Germany and died in August 14, 1956 at age of 58 because of a heart attack. He was the first child and he had one younger brother, Walter, who was born in 1900. He was a sickly child. He had a heart problem and a facial tic. So he was sent to a sanitarium to relax. At age of twelve, he suffered a heart attack but soon he recovered and continued his education. 

 His writing skill was outstanding. When he was around age of sixteen, he wrote a local newspaper, magazine and also his first play, The Bible.  By nineteen, he left the school and started doing clerical work for the war. He wrote poetry when he was a student at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich as a medical major. After military service during World War I, he abandoned his medical studies to pursue writing and the theater. 
He had written many good plays but among them there are four great plays were written between 1938 and 1945. These included, for one, The Life of Galileo, which is going to be performed in our school. 
In his life and works, he experimented with Dadaism and expressionism in his early plays, but he soon developed a unique style that suited his own vision. To get that vision, two world wars and Bible affected him maybe. His works still have huge impact nowadays. There are few areas of modern theatrical culture that have not felt the impact or influence of Brecht's ideas and practices.