Helene Weigel

Helene Weigel (1900 - 1971) was one of the outstanding German actors of her generation. Born in Vienna in 1900, the daughter of a Jewish lawyer, she became a Communist Party member from 1930 and Artistic Director of The Berliner Ensemble after her husband Bertholt 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 Se?ora Carrar's Rifles and, most famously, the iconic Mother Courage.

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• The Berliner Ensemble