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A Tui is an
intellectual An intellectual is a person who engages in critical thinking, research, and Human self-reflection, reflection about the nature of reality, especially the nature of society and proposed solutions for its normative problems. Coming from the wor ...
who sells his or her abilities and opinions as a
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in the
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or who uses them to support the dominant ideology of an oppressive society. The German modernist theatre practitioner
Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known as Bertolt Brecht and Bert Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...
invented the term and used it in a range of critical and creative projects, including the material that he developed in the mid-1930s for his so-called ''Tui-Novel''—an unfinished
satire Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposin ...
on intellectuals in the
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and
Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic, officially known as the German Reich, was the German Reich, German state from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional republic for the first time in history; hence it is also referred to, and unofficially proclai ...
—and his epic
comedy Comedy is a genre of dramatic works intended to be humorous or amusing by inducing laughter, especially in theatre, film, stand-up comedy, television, radio, books, or any other entertainment medium. Origins Comedy originated in ancient Greec ...
from the early 1950s, '' Turandot or the Whitewashers' Congress''. The word is a
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that results from the
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of a
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on "intellectual" ("Tellekt-Ual-In"). According to Mark Clark:Clark, M. W. (July 2006). ''Hero or Villain? Bertolt Brecht and the Crisis Surrounding June 1953''. Journal of Contemporary History. vol. 41 no. 3. pp. 451–475. Brecht routinely referred to the members of the
Frankfurt School The Frankfurt School is a school of thought in sociology and critical theory. It is associated with the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, Institute for Social Research founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main ...
, particularly
Theodor Adorno Theodor is a masculine given name. It is a German form of Theodore. It is also a variant of Teodor. List of people with the given name Theodor * Theodor Adorno, (1903–1969), German philosopher * Theodor Aman, Romanian painter * Theodor Blue ...
, as "Tuis". The corresponding term "Tuism" describes the theory and practice of the Tui-intellectual.Leming (2005, 43–45).


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* Jay, Martin (1996). ''The Dialectical Imagination: A History of the Frankfurt School and the Institute of Social Research, 1923–1950''. Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism series. New ed. Berkeley: University of California Press. . * Kuhn, Tom and David Constantine, eds. (2004). ''Collected Plays: Eight''. By Bertolt Brecht. Bertolt Brecht: Plays, Poetry, Prose Series. London: Methuen. . * Leming, Warren (June 2005). "Tui Tsunami: Brecht Reception and Homeland Insecurity". ''Communications from the International Brecht Society'' 34: 43–45. History of academia Academic terminology Bertolt Brecht theories and techniques Frankfurt School Intellectualism Concepts in social philosophy {{critical-theory-stub