Bertolt BRECHT (1898-1956) dramatist; poet and German essayist. In the 1924 one settled to Berlin in order to direct the Deutsches Theater; in 1928 first it had happened with "the work from three money"; with songs of Kurt Weill with which it collaborated until when; in 1933 after the fire of the Reichstag; it left the Germany. It emigrated before in Denmark and then in the United States. In 1947 it returned in Europe; in the Germany of the East. Numerous its works; more celebrate: Tamburi in night (1919); A man is a man (1926); Rise and ruin of the city of Mahagonny (1928-29); Mother Courage and its sons (1939); The Mad Mr. Aims it and its servant (1940); The chalk circle in the Caucasus (1944-45). Photographic portrait.