1917 ca, GERMANY : The german theatre Marxist director ERWIN PISCATOR (1893 - 1966) when was a young actor at GRUPPEN-THEATER WYTSCHATE (the first standing from right). 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.