Bertolt Brecht was a Germany playwright and poet of the first half of the 20th century.
He was influenced by and part of the modernist movement which also included the writer James Joyce, the filmmaker Sergey Eisenstein and the artists Pablo Picasso, all of them trying to make sense of a world of rapidly encroaching technology, politics and violence.
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