69 years ago today, on August 14, 1956 (July 9, 1956 in the lunar calendar), German dramatist Brecht passed away. August 14, 1956. Bertolt Brecht, playwright and communist theorist, died in Berlin. He was born in Bavakanya in 1898. When he was about 25 years old, he met composer Kurt Weil and worked with him to successfully adapt John Gale's play "The Beggars 'Opera" into "The Opera of Threepence". When fascism prevailed, Bertolt fled to Russia and then to the United States. In 1947, after the House's Un-American Activities Committee accused him of being a Communist, Meiyuan could no longer be his refuge. Bertolt returned to Germany to direct his own "Berlin Ensemble". Except for "Threepence," Bertolt had little commercial success, but it was irrelevant. If any writers wanted to study his ideas that encouraged social change, he left a profound influence on them.