The article investigates origins, development of Lehrstück (learning drama) as exemplified in Bertolt Brecht’s and Alfred Döblin’s works. Lehrstück is a kind of a thesis play, political and pedagogical art for non-professional audience that highlights important social and political issues and analyses them through dialectical approach. These plays challenged "the routine theater" and pursued agitational and educational goals of art. Lehrstückis an "art for a producer", not for a "consumer". Lehrstück transformed passive reception of art and became a foundation for future epic drama. The nature of Lehrstück issyncretical and embraces descriptive and expressive features of different kinds of art (words, songs, music, painting etc.). Hence, "Lehrstück" is a meta-type of performing arts.