Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the...

could be completed. This was the feature film debut of German director Erwin Piscator. The film deals with a strike among the workers of the Bredel shipping...

Social Research in New York City. The German expatriate stage director Erwin Piscator began a long association with the school in 1940. Among the faculty...

"epic theatre" comes from Erwin Piscator who coined it during his first year as director of Berlin's Volksbühne (1924–27). Piscator aimed to encourage playwrights...

Maria Ley-Piscator (born Friederike Flora Czada, 1 August 1898 – 14 October 1999) is best known as the wife of Erwin Piscator (1893–1966), Germany's famous...

Euston Station in London, and is named for the German theatre director Erwin Piscator. The sculpture is made from cast iron with an aluminium finish, and...

theatre director Erwin Piscator staged the play at his "proletarian Volksbühne" (a rival to the Volksbühne), in Berlin. "Our intention," Piscator writes, "was...

stage sets for contemporary playwrights, such as Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator. John Heartfield was born Helmut Herzfeld on 19 June 1891 in Berlin-Schmargendorf...

conflicts with society. Erwin Piscator, 1929. In 1927 Brecht became part of the "dramaturgical collective" of Erwin Piscator's first company, which was...

Garfein took classes in acting with the influential German director Erwin Piscator. Among his classmates were Walter Matthau, Tony Curtis and Rod Steiger...