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Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (as a child known as Eugen) was born on 10 February 1898 in Augsburg, Germany, the son of Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1869–1939) and his wife Sophie, née Brezing (1871–1920). Brecht's mother was a devout Protestant and his father a Roman Catholic (who had been
Helene Weigel played the Mother and Ernst Busch played Pavel. Years later, Brecht directed the play with the Berliner Ensemble at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin in a production that opened on 10 January 1951. Neher also designed the sets for this production and Helene Weigel recreated the lead role, with Ernst Kahler playing Pavel and Busch as ...
Manfred Wekwerth and Gisela May during rehearsals of Mother Courage and Her Children (1978). Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. [1]
The Wooster Group's first foray into the work of Bertolt Brecht brings "The Mother," a "learning play," to postmodern life at REDCAT.
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He was born in Augsburg to Berthold Friedrich Brecht and Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie (née Brezing, 1871–1920), their second son after the future playwright and poet Bertholt. [1] Whilst Sophie was from a Pietist family, Berthold Friedrich was a Roman Catholic from Achern in the Black Forest, becoming a clerk at Augsburg's Haindl’sche ...
Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949. [citation needed] She is best remembered for creating several Brecht roles, including: Pelagea Vlassova, The Mother of 1932; Antigone in Brecht's version of the Greek tragedy; the title role in his civil war play, Señora Carrar's Rifles; and the iconic Mother Courage.
In 2009, Shaw collaborated with Deborah Warner again, taking the lead role in Tony Kushner's translation of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. In a 2002 article for The Daily Telegraph, Rupert Christiansen described their professional relationship as "surely one of the most richly creative partnerships in theatrical history."