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Events on Tuesday 14 August 1956 1
1898 – 1956Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956)Died 14 August 1956, aged 58German playwright, poet, and theatre director known for developing epic theatre and plays such as Mother Courage and Her Children and The Threepenny Opera. He returned to East Germany after years of exile from Nazi rule and founded the Berliner Ensemble. He died of a heart attack in East Berlin.