Everything about Helene Weigel totally explained
Helene Weigel (
May 12,
1900 in
Vienna –
May 6,
1971 in
Berlin) was one of the outstanding German
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's 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
DDR in 1949 that the brilliance of Brecht's theatre and practitioners began to be recognised worldwide. Still at the helm of the company, Helene Weigel died in 1971, though many of the roles that she created with Brecht are still in the theatre's repertoire today.
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