Guardian of the literary heritage: Actress Barbara Brecht-sound is dead – German wave

Barbara Brecht-sound was the daughter of the German playwright Bertolt Brecht and the actress Helene Weigel. At the age of 84 years, she died on Monday (31.08.2015) in Berlin, informed the Suhrkamp, ​​citing the family.

The actress Brecht sound long belonged to the famous Berliner Ensemble and was in many crushing productions themselves on stage. As executor of the literary works of her father woke up extremely strict on the handling of the theater people with texts by Bertolt Brecht. Many a modern performance of a Brecht play it prevented by their strict veto.

Without permission nobody works of Brecht could bring to the stage or to be heard. Last Brecht sound had let prohibit a recent performance of Brecht’s play “Baal” at the Munich Residenz Theater, directed by Frank Castorf court -. Due to excessive intervention in the original text, as the court ruled

literary heritage

Barbara Brecht-sound is with the actor Ekkehard Schall (1930-2005) have been married, the fetched even by her father Bertolt Brecht personally from the eastern province of the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm 1952 had been. He was one of the most famous Brecht-actor par excellence. Sound embodied more than 60 rolls alone at the Berliner Ensemble.

Private lived the couple in the Brandenburg Buckow, where Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht who formerly spent their summer months. Today, the summer house is a museum. 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.

sadness at the Berliner Ensemble

With dismay and grief responded the Berliner Ensemble to the death of the executor of Bertolt Brecht. “As the guardian of her father’s heritage Barbara Brecht-sound was a consistent and courageous, often difficult negotiating partner”, Claus Peymann, the director of the theater said on Schiffbauerdamm. “Their hardness and ruthlessness, but also their hearts were notorious,” said Peymann. “A true Joan of Arc of the theater, which has always defended and protected their father’s work, one of the greatest playwrights of the modern age.”

was Chance Barbara Berg, as and as a theater actress in her time costume designer in the GDR was like to see even in literary adaptations on the canvas. In the famous movie “Lotte in Weimar” they also played a role alongside actress Lilli Palmer. In the GDR, it was in 1987 awarded the Order of Merit Vaterändischen.