Bertolt Brecht's Death

The playwright Bertolt Brecht died at the age of 58. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Daring German satirical playwright and director who wrote The Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, and Mother Courage and Her Children.

He had a son with actress Helene Weigel in October 1924.

Quotes

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“What a miserable thing life is: you’re living in clover, only the clover isn’t good enough.” (Bertolt Brecht)

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“Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste.” (Bertolt Brecht)

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“One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.” (Bertolt Brecht)

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“Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.” (Bertolt Brecht)

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“Grub first, then ethics.” (Bertolt Brecht)