They watched over the work of the most important German writers of the modern era: Barbara Brecht-Schall, daughter and heiress of the principal playwright Bertolt Brecht, is dead The actress died on Monday at the age of 84 years in Berlin.. This was announced by the Suhrkamp relying on with her family.
Brecht sound long belonged to the Berliner Ensemble and was the executor of her father. In this capacity she supervised strictly on dealing with texts by Bertolt Brecht. Again and again there were disputes between her and theater directors, so many performances they prevented entirely through their veto.
Last Brecht sound had forbidden a modern staging of Brecht’s play “Baal” directed by Frank Castorf at the Munich Residenz Theater because of interference with the original text. The Munich Regional Court prohibited the performance in February.
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Brecht sound came in 1930 as the daughter of her famous father and the actress Helene Weigel in Berlin to the world. In 1961 she married actor Ekkehard Schall, whom her father had brought from the eastern province as an actor at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. The 2005 deceased was sound over the decades to Brecht-actor par excellence.
“as the guardian and custodian of her father’s heritage Barbara Brecht-sound was a consistent and courageous, often difficult negotiating partner,” said director Claus Peymann the Berliner Ensemble. “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’ – her father’s work, one of the greatest playwrights of the modern age . “
The legacy of Bertolt Brecht goes so over the next generation. Brecht-Schall and her husband had two daughters: the costume designer Jenny sound and the actress and director Johanna Schall. The latter had staged the Brecht’s opera “Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny” of 1930 in the spring at the Volkstheater Rostock.
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