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Entries: Alienation Effect - "This term---translating the German Verfremdungseffekt---was put forward by the playwright Bertolt Brecht as a desirable quality of theater, by means of which the audience is kept at such a distance that unthinking emotional and personal involvement is inhibited while political messages are delivered." Dystopia - His work The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny is listed as an example of dystopian literature in the form of drama. Lehrstuck - "A didactic or teaching piece, designed to advance a political idea; originated in the theater by Bertolt Brecht." Musical Comedy - "Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht collaborated in the 1920s and 1930s on works---most brilliantly in The Threepenny Opera---that converted the musical theater into a telling instrument of satire and propaganda."