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Bertolt Brecht: Death
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Bertolt Brecht's dramas continue to touch audiences and spark political criticism around the world fifty years after his death. He carped on capitalism and didn't mesh with the GDR -- most importantly, he entertained. (Aug. 11, 2006)
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Brecht left the Berliner Ensemble to his wife, the actress Helene Weigel, which she ran until her death in 1971. Perhaps the most famous German touring theater of the postwar era, it was primarily devoted to performing Brecht plays.
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Brecht died an early death at the age of 58 in 1956 (of a heart attack), leaving a legacy which has been taken up by nearly every country in the world, particularly those where political activity is occurring. In one of his last poems he ironically suggested that inscribing "He made suggestions; we took them on" on his gravestone would be "a way to honour everyone". In fact, on his grave at the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder Cemetery in Berlin there is only a boulder with his name.
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