Erwin Piscator
Film director
1893 – 1966
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Who was Erwin Piscator?
Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1893
Greifenstein - Also known as
- Erwin Max Friedrich Piscator
- Пискатор, Эрвин
- Spouses
- Maria Ley-Piscator
(1937/04/15 - )
- Maria Ley-Piscator
- Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- Gymnasium Philippinum
- Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
- Died
- Mar 30, 1966
Berlin
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on July 23, 2013
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