1917, GERMANY : The german theatre Marxist director ERWIN PISCATOR (1893 - 1966) when was a young soldier during the Great War 1914-1918 at military hospital. 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.