Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg in 1898. His father, a Catholic, was a director of a paper company and his mother, a Protestant, was the daughter of a civil servant. Brecht began to write poetry as a boy, and had his first poems published in 1914 at the age of 16. In 1917 Brecht enrolled as a m...

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