Bertolt's Beginnings

When beginning this blog, I was thinking where to start, then it hit me. Being someone who is often told and fully believes in the phrase "Simple is just as effective as technical" (kinda made that up on the spot) I decided where else better to start, than the history of the main man himself, Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt had a rather unspectacular upbringing. A script did not fall from the sky when he was 9 years old, inspiring him to write for the better of humanity, nor did he decide to write socialist plays on the back of a truck while escaping from the Allied Forces of WW1. No. Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, Bavaria to a protestant mother and a catholic father (who had to be persuaded to have a protestant wedding). While his father became a directing manager for the paper mill he worked at in 1914, his mother was making sure Brecht knew the Bible. Whether he enjoyed this as a child or not I am uncertain, But what both Him and I both are certain of is that that familiarity with the bible would have an impact on his writing during his life. He also drew direct inspiration from his mother, as from her came the came the "dangerous image of the self-denying woman" that recurs in his drama. Though he claimed he was from a background of poverty Brecht lived quite comfortably middle class. Going to a normal school in Augsburg, where he would meet a lifelong creative partner in Caspar (no not the ghost) Neher . Neher is quite a pivotal asset to Brecht as he designed many sets for him and helped establish the very distinctive iconography for Brecht's "Epic Theatre"

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