{"id":19194,"date":"2023-06-06T12:34:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=19194"},"modified":"2023-06-06T12:34:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T16:34:56","slug":"bertolt-brecht-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/bertolt-brecht-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertolt Brecht Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bertolt Brecht (German, 1898-1956)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Brecht was a German author, playwright, and poet who fled Nazi Germany to the United States. Due to his Marxist leanings, he was kept under surveillance by the FBI and returned to East Berlin after the war, where he established the Berliner Ensemble theater company with his wife and partner, actress and artistic director Helene Weigel. Brecht is the father of a theory of theater called \u201cEpic theatre,\u201d which proposed that plays should not focus on climatic catharsis of emotion from the audience, but instead provoke \u201crational self-reflection.\u201d He believed in the inherent political nature of the stage and wanted to use it to encourage his audiences to take a critical perspective of the play in order to recognize the injustices of the outside world. Brecht\u2019s legacy, therefore, is not only as a poet and playwright, but as a political and social philosopher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bertolt Brecht (German, 1898-1956) Brecht was a German author, playwright, and poet&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19194","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19195,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19194\/revisions\/19195"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}