Helene Weigel

The debut was plagued by problems. Hauptmann never finished the book of the musical, the play's opening debut saw cast member Helene Weigel reading from a Communist pamphlet on stage, and it was met with near-unanimous pans from the German...

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...first theatrical production in the same year, opening in Paris on 16 October. This production was directed by Slatan Dudow and Helene Weigel played Senora Carrar. Its form is more traditional than most of Brecht's other "epic " plays. It is...

In this article: Senora Carrar's Rifles, Civil War, Riders to the Sea, John Millington Synge, Slatan Dudow, Bertolt Brecht, and Paris

...Berliner Ensemble do "Arturo Ui," starring the legendary Ekkehard Schall, and "Mother Courage," starring Brecht's widow, Helene Weigel. About the same time at London's young National Theater, Cuffling saw Michel St. Denis' famed staging...

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...Elisabeth Hauptmann were among Brecht's closest collaborators. After her husband had died in 1956, Weigel continued managing the Berliner Ensemble until her death in 1971. The Berliner Ensemble achieved successful theater through long and...

In this article: Berliner Ensemble, Heiner Muller, Hanns Eisler, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Alexander Frey, Wolfgang Langhoff, and Paul Dessau

Helene Weigel (12 May 1900 in Vienna - 6 May 1971 in Berlin) was one of the outstanding actors of her generation. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht, and together they had a son Stefan . The daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a...

In this article: Bertolt Brecht, Berliner Ensemble, Communist Party, Vienna, Berlin, Los Angeles, and German Democratic Republic

...immediate perceptions of what he saw. " Stefan Sebastian Brecht was born in Berlin on Nov. 3, 1924. His mother was the actress Helene Weigel, whom his father married in 1929. The family, including Stefan's younger sister, Barbara Brecht...

In this article: Stefan Brecht, Manhattan, New York, Bertolt Brecht, Berlin, and Executor

...footage of the 2006 show and the many still photographs we are shown from the storied 1949 Berlin staging of the play, starring Helene Weigel, Brecht's second wife. You might think that color footage of a live performance, especially from the...

In this article: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Tony Kushner, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Bertolt Brecht

Walter juxtaposes her grueling, almost deranged performance with footage of the legendary performance by Brecht's wife, Helene Weigel, who appears to be twice as formidable while doing half the work. These backstage scenes explore the...

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...1949 Berlin staging of "Mother Courage," a production Weber recalls in detail: It starred Brecht's wife, the brilliant actress Helene Weigel. (The play was originally written in the States but was not produced until years later.) These...

In this article: Meryl Streep, George C. Wolfe, Tony Kushner, Jeanine Tesori, and Kevin Kline

...and his grandfather was the playwright Ber-tolt Brecht. Sebastian, 44, never met his grandfather but his actress grandmother Helene Weigel, the great Mother Courage whose eyes Kenneth Tynan described as being like the glint of hatchets,...

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