Bertolt_Brecht

Bertolt Brecht BRECHT Bertolt Brecht lived through a period of European History which witnessed massive economic, political and social upheavals. He saw the carnage of two world wars, the destruction of empires through revolutions in Austria, Germany, Hungary and Russia, the surfacing of mass communist and fascist movements throughout Europe, the misery of the third Reich, the division of Germany and the cold war. Germany’s second Reich, the period in which Brecht was born, was a very turbulent time. It was a episode in history whose social, economical and political pressures influenced many artists and writers to become more vocal in their opinions with regard to their political views. It is evident from the outset that Brecht was no stranger to voicing his opinions. At the age of fourteen he began writing for his school publication, “The Harvest’” by the age of sixteen he was writing for a local newspaper. Two years later, at the age of eighteen, he was almost expelled from school for disagreeing on whether it was necessary to defend his country in a time of war. brecht, political, war, period, brecht’s, age, writings, writing, world, until, understand, two, time, social, school, russia, reich, politics, opinions, life, history, germany, europe, during, develop, communist, communism, america, almost, years, writers, working, work, witnessed, whose