What does Brecht and his drama theory tell?

Brecht (1898 ~ 1956) is a German playwright, drama theorist, director and poet. Brecht joined the German workers' movement in the late 1920s. 1933 was forced into exile for opposing the Nazi regime, and still insists on the anti-fascist struggle. 1948 Return to the German Democratic Republic. He used to be the vice president of the German Institute of Democracy and Arts, and won the National Award 195 1 and Lenin Peace Prize 1955.

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Brecht attached importance to the educational function of drama, explored the combination of "propaganda, agitation and art" for many years, and put forward the theory of "epic drama" and the expression method of "alienation effect"

The so-called "epic drama" is to understand and reflect life with the ideas of dialectical materialism and historical materialism, break through the "three unifications" scriptwriting method, and show the broad and colorful content of life in many ways by using the freely stretched drama structure, so that the audience can see the real face of life and its complexity and contradiction through many character scenes, and stimulate people's thinking and enthusiasm for changing society.

"Separation effect" is a new aesthetic concept put forward by Brecht, and it is also a new performance theory and method. Its basic meaning is to make ordinary things extraordinary by artistic methods, reveal the causal relationship of things, expose the contradictory nature of things, and make people realize the possibility of changing reality. As far as the performance method is concerned, the "separation method" requires the actor to keep a certain distance from the role, rather than integrating the two. The actor should be higher than the role, control the role and perform the role. He also opposed the illusion set, in order to get rid of the illusion of life on the stage and let the audience calmly analyze and judge. He added narrative factors to the drama and regarded singing as an integral part of the drama. At the same time, he clearly tells the audience what will happen in the play with the title of the scene and the poem of the scene, so as to emphasize the rational factors in the creative process. This constitutes the characteristics of Brecht's realistic performance method.

Brecht wrote about 50 full-length plays and short plays, such as The Bold Mother and Her Children, The Biography of Galileo, The Good Man of Sichuan, and Grey Lange of Caucasus. Brecht's drama is an important school of German drama in the 20th century, which also has great influence on the world drama.