Birth(+)Fact(x)Death(-)Calendar ||| 14 August 1956

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The Austrian Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek incorporated the disaster in her 2003 play 'In den Alpen'.
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BirthFactDeath (-) Tuesday 14th of August 1956 70 years, 5 months and 16 days ago
Poet, playwright and theatre director Bertolt Eugen Friedrich Brecht dies of a heart attack at the age of 58 in Berlin, Berlin, Germany. In his will Brecht provided instructions that a stiletto be placed in his heart and that he be buried in a steel coffin so that his corpse could not be eaten by worms.