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Erwin Piscator

Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (died 1966)

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Born
December 17, 1893
Died
March 30, 1966
Zodiac sign
Sagittarius
Birth year
1893

About Erwin Piscator

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. His family was descended from Johannes Piscator, a Protestant theologian who produced an important translation of the Bible in 1600. Piscator also took Arthur Kutscher's famous seminar in theatre history, which Bertolt Brecht later also attended. Piscator began his acting career in the autumn of 1914, in small unpaid roles at the Munich Court Theatre.

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Erwin Piscator timeline

  1. His family was descended from Johannes Piscator, a Protestant theologian who produced an important translation of the Bible in 1600.
  2. Piscator began his acting career in the autumn of 1914, in small unpaid roles at the Munich Court Theatre.

The world when Erwin Piscator was born

Erwin Piscator was born in 1893. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

  • Top headlineWorld's Columbian Exposition in Chicago
  • Technology milestoneFirst Ferris wheel debuts at Chicago World's Fair
  • Notable inventionFerris wheel (264 feet tall)
  • World population~1.53B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
  • U.S. population66.0M

1893 versus 2026

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Measure18932026
Population66.0M341 million

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