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Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) BBC Radio Plays Various Recordings Eric Bentley - Bentley On Brecht (1965) Klaus Kinski Singt Und Spricht Brecht Brecht's Testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1947) Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) was a German poet, playwright and theatre director. One of his country’s most famous writers, he was forced into exile in 1933, returning from the United States to Switzerland in 1947, and to East Berlin in 1949. Some of his most famous plays are The Threepenny Opera, Mother Courage, Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.