Helene Weigel
Actor
Theater am Schiffbauerdamm...Germany, opened on November 19, 1892. Since 1954 it is home to the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, founded in 1949 by Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. The original name of the Neo-baroque construction by the architect Heinrich... In this article: Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, Bertolt Brecht, Helene Weigel Brecht, Theo Lingen, Carola Neher, World War II, Berliner Ensemble, Pioneers in Ingolstadt, Iphigenie auf Tauris, and Carl Zuckmayer |
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Wikipedia | September 19, 2009
Happy End (musical)
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...
In this article: Elisabeth Hauptmann, Happy End, Christmas Eve, and Kurt Weill
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Wikipedia | September 13, 2009
Senora Carrar's Rifles
...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
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette | August 06, 2009
Veteran Canadian actor comes to Pittsburgh for Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Threatre production of 'The History Boys'
...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...
In this article: Hector, The History Boys, Alan Bennett, Pittsburgh, John Gielgud, Richard Griffiths, and John Neville
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Wikipedia | July 27, 2009
Berliner Ensemble
...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
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Wikipedia | May 29, 2009
Helene Weigel
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
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New York Times | April 22, 2009
Stefan Brecht, Theater Historian, Is Dead at 84
...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
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San Francisco Chronicle | April 03, 2009
Movie review: 'Theater of War'
...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
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boston.com - Latest movie news | March 26, 2009
Theater of War
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...
In this article: Meryl Streep, E-mail, Mother Courage and Her Children, Jeanine Tesori, George C. Wolfe, and Tony Kushner
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Variety.com - Film Festival Reviews | May 07, 2008
Theater of War Review - Read Variety's Analysis Of The Movie Theater of War
...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
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International Herald Tribune - Culture | January 07, 2008
New York pastry chef Sebastian Brecht goes the way of chocolate, with much ganache - International Herald Tribune
...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,...
In this article: Chocolate, Ganache, New York, Tobacco, International Herald Tribune, Greenwich Village, and New Yorkers
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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.
The daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of the Berliner Ensemble after her husband Brecht's death in 1956. Among the Brecht roles she is most noted for creating are: Pelagea Vlassova, The Mother of 1932, Antigone in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy, the title role in his civil war play Seňora Carrar's Rifles and, most famously, the iconic Mother Courage.
Between 1933 and 1947, as a refugee from Hitler's Germany, she was seldom able to pursue her acting craft - even during the family's six-year stint in Los Angeles. It was only with the foundation of the Berliner Ensemble in the German Democratic Republic in 1949 that the brilliance of Brecht's theatre began to be recognised worldwide. She died in 1971, still at the helm of the company, and many of the roles that she created with Brecht are still in the theatre's repertoire today.
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