For 10 points, name this author of Mother Courage and Her Children.
Many of this author's works were the subject of incidental music by Paul Dessau, including one in which the title character disguises herself as her fictional cousin Shui Ta to save her tobacco shop. Frequent asides to the audience are used to create a "distancing effect" in that work by this author, The Good Woman of Setzuan. In another work by this man, Kattrin saves the town of Halle during the Thirty Years' War by beating a drum, but is shot along with her brothers Eilif and Swiss Cheese. For 10 points, name this author of Mother Courage and Her Children.
Many of this author's works were the subject of incidental music by Paul Dessau, including one in which the title character disguises herself as her fictional cousin Shui Ta to save her tobacco shop.
Bertolt Brecht