Barbara Brecht-sound dead: Brecht subsidiary protected heritage of her father as a lion – Abendzeitung München

Your word was feared at the theater makers. As heiress of Bertolt Brecht, she decided on the performing rights of its pieces. Now Brecht-daughter Barbara Brecht-sound died

Berlin -. Barbara Brecht -Schall, daughter of playwright Bertolt Brecht and the actress Helene Weigel, is dead. The actress and main heir Brecht died Monday at the age of 84 years in Berlin. This was announced by the Suhrkamp Verlag, citing her family on Tuesday.

Brecht sound has long been one of the Berliner Ensemble, and was the executor of her father. In this capacity she supervised strictly handling of theater people with texts by Bertolt Brecht – and some performances of Brecht-piece they prevented by their veto

Brecht sound Recently for example, had more performances of Brecht’s play” let prohibit judicial Baal “directed by Frank Castorf at the Munich Residenz Theater because of interference with the original text.

Brecht sound was with the actor Ekkehard Schall (1930-2005) married, who had been brought by her father in 1952 personally from the eastern province as an actor at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm and Over the decades, the Brecht-actor par excellence was.

sound played through the whole Brecht repertoire. More than 60 roles he played on alone at the Berliner Ensemble. Privately, he lived with Brecht’s daughter Barbara, inter alia, in the Brandenburg Buckow. Two daughters are from the marriage: an actress and director Joan sound and costume designer Jenny sound. Both assume, according to information from Suhrkamp now chairs the heir-GmbH and thus the management of the playwright-estate.

“Your hardness and ruthlessness were notorious”

With dismay and sadness the Berliner Ensemble reacted to the death of Barbara Brecht-Schall. “As the guardian and custodian of her father’s heritage Barbara Brecht-sound was a consistent and courageous, often difficult negotiating partner,” said Claus Peymann, the director of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, the Berliner Ensemble is today.

” Their hardness and ruthlessness, but also their hearts were notorious, “said Peymann. “Barbara Brecht-sound protected and defended – a true” Joan of Arc of the theater –

And Peymann added “her father’s work, one of the greatest playwrights of the modern age.” “Even their Backkunst we are Incidentally miss. The management was pleased each year to the homemade Christmas stollen by Barbara Brecht-Schall. “