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1926 | Metropolis (Harbou / Lang) | Fritz Lang (UFA) |
1932 | Kuhle Wampe (Brecht / Ottwald): sings off-screen "Das Frühjahr." | Slatan Dudov (Praesens) |
1944 | The Seventh Cross (Seghers / Deutsch) | Fred Zinnemann (MGM) |
1953 | Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar (Brecht) | Käthe Rülicke / Jens Peter (Fernsehen der DDR) |
1957 | Die Windrose (Amando / Pozner) | Alberto Cavalcanti / Sergei Gerasimov /Joris Ivens |
1957 | Katzgraben (Strittmatter) | Max Jaap /Manfred Wekwerth (DEFA) |
1958 | Die Mutter (Brecht) | Manfred Wekwerth (DEFA) |
1960 | Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (Brecht / Palitzsch / Wekwerth) | Peter Palitzsch / Manfred Weckwerth (DEFA) |
04.02.1968 | Marie Soupeau - Die Gesichte der Simone Machard (Brecht / Feuchtwanger) | Manfred Karge / Matthias Langhoff [Deutsches Fernsehnfunk - Berlin (Ost)] |
May 1919 | Audition for the Wiener Volksbühne. |
15.11.1922 | Brecht visits the Deutsches Theater (Berlin) during the rehearsals of Trommel in der Nacht (directed by Otto Falckenberg) and met HW for the first time. |
August 1923 | Through the introduction by Arnolt Bronnen, Brecht begins relationships with HW |
10.04.1929 | Brecht and HW get married. |
March-May 1935 | Brecht in Moscow. Part of his purpose is to find a film role for HW. |
September 1935 | Brecht suggests HW in his Die Rundköpfe und Die Spitzköpfe for a plan to open a German-speaking theatre in Prag. |
June-October 1935 | HW participate in the preparation of Die Mutter at the Amateurtheater-RT (directed by Ruth Berlau, in herDanish translation). |
Mid-June 1936 | Erwin Piscator asks HW for his German theatre plan in Engels. |
Mid-May 1937 | Brecht sends inquiries to Walter Benjamin in Paris about a possible plan for HW to appear in the cabaret «Die Laterne». |
May 1939 | Brecht gives lectures on acting in a student theatre in Stockholm. Further plans for HW appearances to show examples in autumn. |
January-April 1940 | Brecht and HW give joint lessons at the actress Naima Wifrstrand's private school in Stokcholm. |
May 1943 | HW and Marta Feuchtwanger read cookbooks in fake Polish over the telephone in order to upset FBI's buggin operations. |
19.11.1947 | HW and daughter Barbara arrives in Zürich. |
22.10.1948 | HW returns to Berlin. |
25.09.1949 | HW, Paul Bildt, Werner Hinz, Angelika Hurwicz, and Gerda Müller receive Nationalpries II. Klasse for their performance in Mutter Courage. |
24.03.1950 | The founding of the Deutsche Akademie der Künste in East Berlin. HW elected as member. |
18-19. 04.1953 | HW with members of the Berliner Ensemble attend the first German Stanislawski Conference. |
16-17.06.1953 | During the workers' demonstrations in East Berlin, HW was in Budapest attending the Weltfriedenskongreß. |
01.10.1953 | HW receives nationalpreis II. KLasse her performance in Mutter Courage (BE), Frau Carrar, and Katzgraben. |
15-16.1953 | Brecht, HW, and Ernst Busch travel to Wien to prepare for Die Mutter at the Scala. |
07.11.1954 | HW organizes the Matinee-Veranstaltung: Revolutionsfeier at the Berliner Ensemble. |
05.12.1954 | HW becomes a party candidate for the SED in the Berlin (West) election. |
24.04.1955 | HW reads Brecht's short shory "Der Mantel des Ketzers" over the radio. |
25.05.1954 | Brecht, HW, and Käthe Rülicke in Moscow. Brecht receives the Stalin Peace Prize. At the banquet for Brecht, Asja Lacis asked HW to read poems from Hundert Gedichte. |
18.08.1955 | DEFA starts the shooting of Mutter Courage (dir. Wolfgang Staudte). The project is abandoned in October over the differences between the playwright and the director. |
04.04.1969 | Last performance of Mutter Courage with HW. (405 performance since 1949). |
03.04.1971 | Last performance of Die Mutter with HW in Paris. |
Pintzka, Wolfgang, ed. Die Schauspielerin Helene Weigel: ein Fotobuch.
Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1959.
(Texte: Bertolt Brecht, Fotos: Gerda Goedhart.) Pintzka, Wolfgang, ed. Helene Weigel, Actress: a Book of Photographs. Translated by John Berger and Anna Bostock. Leipzig: VEB Offizin Andersen Nexö, 1961 (Texts by Bertolt Brecht, photographs by Gerda Goedhart; This is a translation of the prior book.) Hecht, Werner and Unseld, Siegfried, ed. Helene Weigel zu Ehren: Zum 70. Geburtstag von Helene Weigel am 12. Mai 1970. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1970. Tenschert, Vera. Die Weigel. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1981. (Fotografiert von Vera Tenschert. "Die Texte Helene Weigels sind aus dem Tonbandprotokoll eines Gesprächs, das Werner Hecht im November 1969 geführt hat.") Hecht, Werner. Brecht: vielseitige Betrachtungen. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1978 Helene Weigel. Buch und Regie: Christa Mühl und Werner Hecht. Fernsehen der DDR/DEFA, 1973. (35 mm, B/W, 54 minutes. First broadcast: 13 May 1973 on the First Program.) Bertolt Brecht und Helene Weigel in Buckow. Berlin: Brecht-Zentrum der DDR, 1977. Engberg, Harald. Brecht på Fyn. København, Gyldendal, 1968. (Brecht auf Fünen: Exil in Dänemark 1933-1939. Translated by Heinz Kulas. Wuppertal: Hammer, 1974.) Wekwerth, Manfred. Notate: über die Arbeit des Berliner Ensembles 1956 bis 1966. Frankfurt a. M.: Suhrkamp, 1967. |
The image shows Weigel and Brecht in Stockholm Sweden 1939. |