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Born in Augsburg, Babaria (German Empire)
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Born to a Protestant mother and a Catholic father, father worked for a paper mill and became managing director in 1914, Brecht was educated in religion which influenced his later writing
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Brecht was 16, initially enthusiastic about joining his classmates in combat but quickly changed his mind and stated they were "swallowed by the army," his father then found an alternative to joinging the army by suggesting Brecht take an additional medical course at Munich University
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Wrote newspaper articles under the name "Bert Brecht"
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Began studying drama with Arthur Kutscher, who introduced Brecht to iconoclastic dramatist and cabaret-star Frank Wedekind
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Baal, his first full length written play arose from an argument between Kutscher in his drama seminar--- this began a reputation for countering other works.
"Anyone can be creative, it's rewriting other people that's a challenge." -
Drafted into German military and posted back to Augsburg as a medical orderly in a military clinic, the war ended a month later
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completed Drums in the Night
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Has a son with girlfriend Paula Banholzer
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Took part in political cabaret of Munich comedian Karl Valentin, who he compared to Charlie Chaplin
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While living in Munich, he caught the attention of influential Berlin Critic Herbert Iherin- he wrote: "At 24 the writer Bert Brecht has changed Germany's Literary Complexion overnight." He also said Drums in the Night had "given our time a new tone, a new melody, a new vision.."
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Married Viennese oper-singer Marianne Zoff, their daught, Hanne Hiob became a successful German actress
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written as a slapstick film, directed by Erich Engel and starring Karl Valentin, now considered one of the most important films in German history
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collaborated with Lion Feuchtwanger on an apaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II, proved as a mileston in Brecht's early theatrical and dramaturgical development, started epic theatre
