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'''Erwin''' Friedrich Maximilian '''Piscator''' (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, 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 on the production's formal beauty.
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* Heinrich Goertz, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11159 Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten]'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (in German)
 
* Heinrich Goertz, ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=11159 Erwin Piscator in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten]'', Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1974, 155 pp. (in German)
 
* Timothy Earl Youker, ''[http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/item/ac:146744 "The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form]'', Columbia University, 2012. Ph.D. Dissertation.
 
* Timothy Earl Youker, ''[http://academiccommons.columbia.edu/item/ac:146744 "The Destiny of Words": Documentary Theatre, the Avant-Garde, and the Politics of Form]'', Columbia University, 2012. Ph.D. Dissertation.

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Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, 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 on the production's formal beauty.

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