For 10 points—name this author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and her Children.
Pierpoint Mauler is the corrupt owner of a meat packing plant in one of this man's works, which also contains that characters Jackson, Paul Snyder, and Joan Dark, who are members of the Black Straw Hats.  He wrote another work in which Wong is a water carrier and Shen Te buys a tobacco shop before she reveals that her cousin Shui Ta is actually her alter-ego.  In addition to Saint Joan of the Stockyards and The Good Person of Szechwan, he wrote a play in which Simon Chachaba watches the maid Grusha Vashnadze bathe in the river, and one in which Swiss Cheese, Eilif, and Kattrin are killed by soldiers during the Thirty Years' War.  For 10 points—name this author of The Caucasian Chalk Circle and Mother Courage and her Children.
Pierpoint Mauler is the corrupt owner of a meat packing plant in one of this man's works, which also contains that characters Jackson, Paul Snyder, and Joan Dark, who are members of the Black Straw Hats.  
Bertolt {Brecht}