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Bertolt Brecht: Life
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Brecht was born in 1898 into a world of conflict and contradictions. By the time he was 16 the First World War had broken out, which soon consumed even the small German town of Augsburg in which he lived with all its ferocity and accounted for the deaths of a number of his school friends. Financial, political and personal instability were a way of life and would remain so for Brecht until his death in 1956.
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Brecht could not stand the indecision of much of the anti-Stalinist left. He once described Korsch as “a guest in the house of the proletariat, who always had his suitcase ready to leave”. Throughout his life, Brecht stressed the need for taking sides.
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The bourgeoisie cursed Brecht in life, and maintained a cynical silence on his death. And this was natural. It saw in Brecht its mortal enemy. And the bourgeoisie of his native city was no exception to this.
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