Esslin puts the "curious paradox" of Brecht in a nutshell: "Brecht was a Communist, he was also a great poet. But while the West liked his poetry and distrusted his Communism, the Communists exploited his political convictions while they regarded his artistic aims and achievements with suspicion."
Eugen Berthold Brecht was born in Augsburg on 10 February 1898. Augsburg, located about forty miles northwest of Munich, had lost its eminence as a mercantile center and was then a provincial city.
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