This author wrote, “the year is 1912; you are in Chicago” in the prologue to a play about Shlink and Garga engaging in a metaphorical boxing match. It’s not Lion Feuchtwanger, but this author of In the Jungle of Cities wrote about a historical figure in The Visions of Simone Machard as well as in a play featuring the tycoon Pierpont Mauler. The title character of a play by this author is a lieutenant in a group called Black Straw Hats and organizes with a group of meat packers against their boss. This author of (*) Saint Joan of the Stockyards wrote a play where the prostitute Yvette sings a song of fraternization. This author coined a term translating to “alienation effect” and wrote “A Short Organum for the Theatre” to describe “epic theatre.” For 10 points, name this German playwright who wrote about Anna Fierling in Mother Courage and Her Children. ■END■
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]
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