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- Helene Weigel was born on May 12, 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Mother Courage and Her Children (1961), Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (1955) and Señora Carrar's Rifles (1953). She was married to Bertolt Brecht. She died on May 6, 1971 in East Berlin, East Germany.
- SpouseBertolt Brecht(April 10, 1929 - August 14, 1956) (his death, 2 children)
- Children
- RelativesJenny Schall(Grandchild)Johanna Schall(Grandchild)
- While she became a respected stage actress on several stages in the 1920s, she studied dramaturgy under Max Reinhardt in Berlin.
- As she was Jewish and her husband Bertolt Brecht an opponent of the Nazis, they fled Germany in 1933 and finally settled down in the US in 1941. They returned to Europe in 1947 because Brecht was considered to be a communist.
- Stepmother of Frank Banholzer (1919-1943) and Hanne Hiob.
- Daughter of Siegfried Weigl and Leopoldine Pollak. Niece of Arthur Weigl and his wife Emma, cousin of their children Trude (b. 1896), Irma and Egon Weigl (1901-1979). Egon is the father of Vladimir Weigl and Sanda Weigl.
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