Berliner Ensemble founded
1949 · Event
Back in East Berlin, Brecht and his wife Helene Weigel found their own company to stage his epic theatre — it becomes one of the most influential troupes in Europe.
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- German unification (1871)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- Holy Roman Empire (962)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Adolf Hitler (1889)
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- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)
- Reunification of Germany (1990)
Around 1949
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- World War II (1939)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Battle of Britain (1940)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Suez Crisis (1956)