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    Helene Weigel

    German actress and artistic director

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  1. 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.

  2. May 9, 2024 · Helene Weigel (born May 12, 1900, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria]—died May 6, 1971, East Berlin, East Germany [now Berlin, Germany]) 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 ...

  3. Helene Weigel was an actress and director known for her maternal roles in Bertolt Brecht’s plays and her incredible kindness and generosity. Weigel married Brecht in 1922 and they fled Germany during the war, returning to East Germany after the war.

  4. 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.

  5. 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 her own life...

  6. 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. In the early 1920s she met Bertolt Brecht.

  7. 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.

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