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    Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the...
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  • 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...
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  • 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...
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    "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...
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    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...
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  • Look up piscator in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Erwin Piscator was a German theatre director and producer. Piscator may also refer to: Piscator (surname)...
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    conflicts with society. Erwin Piscator, 1929. In 1927 Brecht became part of the "dramaturgical collective" of Erwin Piscator's first company, which was...
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    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...
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    theatre director Erwin Piscator staged the play at his "proletarian Volksbühne" (a rival to the Volksbühne), in Berlin. "Our intention," Piscator writes, "was...
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    inspired by War and Peace. Initiated by a proposal of the German director Erwin Piscator in 1938, the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev composed his opera War...
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