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...
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Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (as a child known as Eugen) was born...
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Austrian writer Helene Weigel (1900–1971), Austrian actress Herman Weigel (born 1950), German film producer and screenwriter Jannine Weigel (born 2000),...
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adapted as a German film, Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1961), starring Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow and a leading actress. Mother Courage is considered...
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[bɛʁˈliːnɐ ʔãˈsãːbl̩]) is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East...
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Chaussee Straße (next door to the Brecht House, where Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel spent their last years, at 125 Chaussee Straße). It is also directly...
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on television and in films. After the death of her mother in 1966, Helene Weigel took her under her care. In 1967, she made her debut as the whore Betty...
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was a German actress. Brecht was born in Berlin to Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel, she had three siblings, a full brother Stefan, a half-brother Frank...
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been home to the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, founded in 1949 by Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. The original name of the Neo-baroque construction...
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Chur Stadttheater in Switzerland in 1948, with Brecht's second wife Helene Weigel, in the lead role. This was Brecht's first directorial collaboration...
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the Berliner Ensemble, under the guidance of Bertolt Brecht's widow Helene Weigel. In 1965, she made her film debut in Doctor Zhivago, playing a minor...
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Bernhard-Wicki-Filmpreis (Bernhard Wicki Film Award) The Helene-Weigel-Medaille (Helene Weigel Medal) The prize of the critics of the Berliner Zeitung...
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was directed by Emil Burri and the scenic design was by Caspar Neher. Helene Weigel played the Mother and Ernst Busch played Pavel. Years later, Brecht...
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– Earle Nelson, American serial killer and rapist (d. 1928) 1900 – Helene Weigel, Austrian-German actress (d. 1971) 1903 – Wilfrid Hyde-White, English...
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67/69 76 m (249 ft) 1985 Residential 39 Helene-Weigel-Platz 6/7 76 m (249 ft) 1985 Residential 39 Helene-Weigel-Platz 13/14 76 m (249 ft) 1985 Residential...
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the area Berthold Brecht, poet, lived in Wilmersdorf with his partner Helene Weigel, until they left Germany in 1933. Marlene Dietrich, actress, lived with...
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of the best-known interpreters of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner Ensemble. Schall first went on stage in 1947...
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Brecht boycott in Vienna (section Torberg and Weigel)
of Bertolt Brecht himself, Manfred Wekwerth staged Die Mutter with Helene Weigel, Ernst Busch and Otto Tausig, a re-staging of the Berlin Ensemble's...
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are Margarete Lanner, Helen von Münchofen, Olaf Storm, Georg John, Helene Weigel and Fritz Alberti. One scene in which Freder listens to a monk preaching...
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Brecht's relationships with women (namely Paula Banholzer, Marianne Zoff, Helene Weigel, Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau, Käthe Reichel, Regine Lutz and Isot...
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1961, with Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch directing, and stars Helene Weigel in the title role; it was modelled after the original 1949 production...
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there, as did the artist John Heartfield. From 1952 Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel had their summer residence in Buckow, where Brecht wrote his Buckow...
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in Paris. This production was directed by Slatan Dudow and starred Helene Weigel. The production employed Brecht's epic theatre techniques to defamiliarize...
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Brecht's death, conflicts began to arise between his family (around Helene Weigel) and other artists about Brecht's legacy, including Slatan Dudow, Erwin...
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there was a lot of conflict between the artists and the family (around Helene Weigel) about the Brecht heritage. Heinz Kahlau, Slatan Dudow, Erwin Geschonneck...
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Hanns Eisler in Berlin. He became acquainted with Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. Kosma and his wife emigrated to Paris in 1933. Eventually, he met Jacques...
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productions, even more so when John took me backstage at the Old Vic to meet Helene Weigel (Brecht's widow) and Ekkehard Schall (Coriolanus). I felt I was in the...
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on the 1923 play Baal by Bertolt Brecht. The film disappeared after Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow, saw it on television and demanded that it no longer...
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Barbara Brecht-Schall, and the granddaughter of Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. The House on the River (1986) Apple Trees (1992) "Johanna Schall"....
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May 11 – Thomas H. Robbins Jr., American admiral (d. 1972) May 12 – Helene Weigel, Austrian actress (d. 1971) May 13 – Karl Wolff, German SS functionary...
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