Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle
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Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle is a series of experimental didactic plays by Bertolt Brecht designed to explore political and social ideas through participatory, instructional theatre.
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| Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle Context triple: [The Decision, partOf, Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle]
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Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble is a renowned German theater company in Berlin, historically associated with epic theatre and the works of playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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B.
Hamburgische Dramaturgie
Hamburgische Dramaturgie is a seminal series of theatrical and literary critiques by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that helped lay the foundations of modern German drama and dramaturgy.
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C.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a satirical opera with music by Kurt Weill that critiques capitalism and moral decay through the story of a hedonistic, lawless city.
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D.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s influential 1928 philosophical and literary study that analyzes the baroque German Trauerspiel and develops key concepts in his critical theory.
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E.
Short Organon for the Theatre
Short Organon for the Theatre is a theoretical essay by Bertolt Brecht outlining his principles of epic theatre and the use of techniques like the alienation effect to provoke critical audience engagement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle Target entity description: Brecht’s Lehrstücke cycle is a series of experimental didactic plays by Bertolt Brecht designed to explore political and social ideas through participatory, instructional theatre.
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A.
Berliner Ensemble
Berliner Ensemble is a renowned German theater company in Berlin, historically associated with epic theatre and the works of playwright Bertolt Brecht.
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B.
Hamburgische Dramaturgie
Hamburgische Dramaturgie is a seminal series of theatrical and literary critiques by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing that helped lay the foundations of modern German drama and dramaturgy.
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C.
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is a satirical opera with music by Kurt Weill that critiques capitalism and moral decay through the story of a hedonistic, lawless city.
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D.
The Origin of German Tragic Drama
The Origin of German Tragic Drama is Walter Benjamin’s influential 1928 philosophical and literary study that analyzes the baroque German Trauerspiel and develops key concepts in his critical theory.
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E.
Short Organon for the Theatre
Short Organon for the Theatre is a theoretical essay by Bertolt Brecht outlining his principles of epic theatre and the use of techniques like the alienation effect to provoke critical audience engagement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (50)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
didactic theatre
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series of plays ⓘ theatre cycle ⓘ |
| aim |
to explore political and social ideas
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to teach through performance ⓘ to transform performers’ consciousness ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Lehrstücke
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learning plays ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Weimar Republic
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left-wing theatre collectives ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Germany ⓘ |
| creator | Bertolt Brecht ⓘ |
| educationalFunction |
collective experimentation in theatre
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political education ⓘ |
| genre |
didactic play
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epic theatre ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Das Badener Lehrstück vom Einverständnis
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Der Flug der Lindberghs ⓘ Der Jasager ⓘ Der Neinsager ⓘ Der Ozeanflug ⓘ Die Ausnahme und die Regel ⓘ
linked to:
The Exception and the Rule
Die Maßnahme ⓘ Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe (sometimes classified as Lehrstück-related) ⓘ
linked to:
Die Heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe
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| influenced |
applied theatre
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educational theatre ⓘ participatory theatre ⓘ political theatre ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Soviet revolutionary theatre
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dialectical materialism ⓘ workers’ movement ⓘ |
| intendedAudience |
performers as learners
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politically engaged groups ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
class struggle
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collective decision-making ⓘ didacticism in theatre ⓘ ethics of political action ⓘ politics ⓘ revolutionary politics ⓘ social relations ⓘ |
| movement |
Marxism
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avant-garde theatre ⓘ modernism ⓘ |
| period |
early 1930s
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late 1920s ⓘ |
| theatricalApproach |
instructional theatre
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non-Aristotelian drama ⓘ participatory performance ⓘ |
| theatricalDevice | Verfremdungseffekt ⓘ |
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