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Bertolt Brecht

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

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Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956)

Grave of Bertolt Brecht and Helen Weigel. Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof, Berlin. Germany.

Brecht wrote very few plays in his last years in Berlin, none of them as famous as his previous works. Some of his most famous poems, however, including the "Buckower Elegies", were from this time.

Brecht died in 1956 of a heart attack at the age of 58.

In his will he provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms. He is buried in the Dorotheenstädtischer Friedhof on Chausseestraße in the Mitte neighborhood of Berlin.

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