Berthe-Sultana Bénichou-Aboulker was a Jewish-Algerian poet and playwright who wrote in French. Her play La Kahena, reine berbière (1933) was the "first work published by a Jewish woman in Algeria".
Berthold Auerbach was a German poet and author. He was the founder of the German "tendency novel", in which fiction is used as a means of influencing public opinion on social, political, moral, and religious questions.
Berthold Litzmann was a professor of German studies and a literature historian. He was a professor at the University of Bonn and the founder of the Society for Literature History, which also included Thomas Mann.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a life-long collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre and the Verfremdungseffekt.
Bertram Benedict was an American author and editor. He was a partial owner of the Editorial Research Reports, and a book reviewer for The New York Times Magazine. His 1921 book, The Larger Socialism, was a critique of socialism in the United States.
