Question
A John Fuegi book titled for this author's "life and lies" alleges that many of his plays were written by his female companions. In a play mainly written by this author, a water seller describes the arrival of three gods, who give a thousand silver dollars to a sex worker which she uses to start a tobacco business. This author encouraged audiences not to sympathize with characters by using his (*) "distancing effect" in plays like The Good Person of Szechuan ("sitch-WAN"). Kattrin is shot late in a play mainly written by this author, in which Swedish soldiers fighting in the Thirty Years' War buy food from a cart operated by Anna Fierling. For 10 points, name this German lead playwright of Mother Courage and Her Children. ■END■
ANSWER: Bertolt Brecht [or Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; accept The Life and Lies of Bertolt Brecht] (Brecht wrote Mother Courage and Her Children with Margarete Steffin, and The Good Person of Szechuan with Steffin and Ruth Berlau.)
<Literature - European Literature - Drama>
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| Ben Newman | Uni of Illinois Laboratory | Uni School of Nashville A | 57 | 20 |
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| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | TUH | Conv. % | Power % | Neg % | Average Buzz |
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| 2025 PACE NSC | 06/07/2025 | Y | 2 | 100% | 50% | 0% | 64.00 |