- Was twice posthumously nominated for Broadway's Tony Award: in 1963, as author of Best Play nominee "Mother Courage and Her Children;" and in 1977, for his lyrics as part of a Best Score nomination for "Happy End," shared with Michael Feingold for his adaptation of Brecht's words.
- Some of his most successful works are "Baal" (written in 1918), "The Treepenny Opera" (1928), "Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagony" (1928/29), "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" (1929), "Fear and Misery in the Third Reich" (1935-1938), "Mother Courage and Her Children" (1939) and "The Good Person of Sezuan" (1940).
- Spoke with a rasping Swabian accent. Thus, he recorded songs such as "The Ballad of Mecki Messer" from "Die Dreigroschenoper" (The Threepenny Opera).
- Studied medicine and worked briefly as an orderly in a Munich hospital during World War I.
- His daughter Barbara Berg currently holds the copyrights to all of his works.
- His play, "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui," in a Minnesota Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California was awarded the 1969 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Production.
- Frequently worked with Kurt Weill and Benno Besson.
- He had five children: Frank Banholzer (b. July 30th, 1919), (killed in action, November 13th, 1943, in Russia), with Paula Banholzer; Hanne Hiob (b. 1923), with Marianne Zoff; Stefan Becht (b. 1924) and Barbara Berg (b. 1930), with Helene Weigel; and an infant who died shortly after birth in 1944, with Ruth Berlau.
- His first wife Marianne was an opera singer.
- Although he did not divorce Marianne Zoff until 1927, they separated in 1923. He got to know Helene Weigel shortly after their separation.
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