Baal

Name: Baal
Author: Bertolt Brecht

Play written by Bertolt Brecht

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Author: Bertolt Brecht
Released: 1922
Language: German

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Baal was the first full-length play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. It concerns a wastrel youth who becomes involved in several sexual affairs and at least one murder. It was written in 1918, when Brecht was a 20-year-old student at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, in response to the expressionist drama The Loner by the soon-to-become-Nazi dramatist Hanns Johst.

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Date of first performance: December 8, 1923 location: Altes Theater
Founded: 1918(1918–1920)
Location of first performance: Altes Theater
Copyright status: public domain applies to jurisdiction: United States
Form of creative work: drama
Title: Baal
Based on: Q111317422

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