Erwin Piscator

Erwin Piscator
Portrait of Piscator, c. 1929
Born
Erwin Friedrich Max Piscator

(1893-12-17)17 December 1893
Died30 March 1966(1966-03-30) (aged 72)
Education
Occupation(s)Theatre director, producer
Known forFounded the Dramatic Workshop at The New School for Social Research (1940).
Notable workThe Political Theatre (1929)
StyleEpic Theatre, Documentary theatre
Spouse(s)Hildegard Jurczyk (m. 1919)[1]
Maria Ley (m. 1937)
RelativesJohannes Piscator
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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 foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.[2]

  1. ^ erwin-piscator.de (in German)
  2. ^ Piscator, Erwin. Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge, volume 15, copyright 1991. Grolier Inc., ISBN 0-7172-5300-7