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Bertolt Brecht  

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  • Bertolt Brecht was arguably one of the foremost playwrights, composers, dramaturges, and political activists of the 20th century. Born in Augsburg, Bavaria, he grew up to study medicine and worked in a hospital in Munich during World War I. After the war he moved to Berlin, where he found his passion and talent for the theater. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Brecht, Bertolt (1898–1956)]

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