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Helene Weigel (German: [heˈleː.nə ˈvaɪ̯gl̩] ⓘ; 12 May 1900 – 6 May 1971) was a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956.
Helene Weigel (eigentl. Weigl, * 12. Mai 1900 in Wien, Österreich-Ungarn; † 6. Mai 1971 in Ost-Berlin) war eine österreichisch - deutsche Schauspielerin und Intendantin des Berliner Ensembles.
May 9, 2024 · Helene Weigel was an Austrian actress and stage director who, with her husband, Bertolt Brecht, in 1949 established the Berliner Ensemble theatre group in what was then East Berlin. Weigel was born into an assimilated Jewish family during the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Helene Weigel was a respected matriarch of nineteenth-entury theater, known for her maternal roles in Bertolt Brecht plays and as the director of the Berliner Ensemble theater in East Germany. Born in Vienna in 1900, Weigel moved to Berlin to perform in 1922, where she met and married Brecht.
One of Brecht's leading actresses Helene Weigel describes the aim of Bertolt Brecht's Epic Theatre in the documentary 'Brecht on Stage' (BBC / Open Universit...
May 23, 1971 · Helene Weigel 1900–1971. She didn't only act Mother Courage and Gorki's Mother, the Widow Begbick, Senora Carrar, she was Courage, pipe and all — and all the others. She breathed...
Mai 1971 - Die Schauspielerin und Intendantin Helene Weigel stirbt in Ost-Berlin. Ihr Lebensweg führt sie aus der K.-u.-k.-. Monarchie über die Weimarer Republik ins Exil und dann in die DDR ...
WEIGEL, HELENE (1900–1971), actress and intendant of the Berliner Ensemble. Born in Vienna, she went to Frankfurt after her training and later to Berlin, where she was taught by Max Reinhardt and appeared at the Volksbühne and at the Deutsches Theater.
Helene Weigel | DEFA Film Library. Biography: Helene Weigel was born on May 12, 1900, to an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Vienna. She attended an art-oriented school and, against her parents’ will, began taking acting lessons at the age of seventeen.
Overview. Helene Weigel. (1900—1971) Quick Reference. (b. Vienna, 12 May 1900; d. Berlin, 6 May 1971) Actress. She began her career in Frankfurt in 1919. In 1924 she met Brecht, whom she married in 1929. She ... From: Weigel, Helene in The Continuum Companion to Twentieth Century Theatre » Subjects: Performing arts — Theatre. Reference entries.
