This playwright moved to East Berlin after his testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this German dramatist whose development of epic theatre sought to promote left-wing causes. This playwright attacked the capitalistic support for war in his play Mother Courage and Her Children.
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht (“brekt”) [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht]
[10e] Brecht satirized the leader of this political party as a cauliflower mobster in his play The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. Brecht depicted the rule of this political party in Fear and Misery in the Third Reich.
ANSWER: Nazi Party [or Nazis or NSDAP; or National Socialist German Workers Party; or Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei]
[10h] Brecht critiqued capitalism in The Threepenny Opera by depicting Jonathan Peachum selling licenses allowing these people to operate. The Threepenny Opera was adapted from a John Gay opera titled for these people.
ANSWER: beggars [accept The Beggar’s Opera; reject any synonyms]
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