Barbara Brecht-Schall (28 October 1930 – 31 August 2015) was a German actress. Born Barbara Marie Brecht in Berlin to Bertolt Brecht and

Helene Weigel Helene Weigel (; 12 May 19006 May 1971) was a German actress and artistic director. She was the second wife of Bertolt Brecht and was married to him from 1930 until his death in 1956. Together they had two children. Personal life Weigel was bo ...

, she had three siblings, a full brother Stefan, a half-brother Frank Banholzer and a half-sister

Hanne Hiob Hanne Hiob (12 March 1923 – 23 June 2009) was a German actress. Life and career Hiob was born as Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich, the daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht by his wife, opera singer and actress Marianne Zoff (1893-1984). In F ...

. Starting in 1933, her family moved around Europe to avoid the Nazi regime. They eventually arrived in Los Angeles, but left America in 1947 shortly after Bertolt Brecht testified in front of the

House Committee on Un-American Activities The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA), popularly dubbed the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives, created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloy ...

. Her father established the

Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langho ...

in 1949, a theatre company in which she also acted. Brecht later married

Ekkehard Schall Ekkehard Schall (29 May 1930 in Magdeburg – 3 September 2005 in Berlin) was a German stage and screen actor/director. He was one of the best-known interpreters of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner ...

, with whom she had two daughters, Johanna Schall and Jenny Schall-Dizdari. Barbara Brecht-Schall died in Berlin on 31 August 2015, aged 84.

Selected filmography

*'' Ein Polterabend'' (1955) *''

Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner ''Berlin, Schoenhauser Corner'' (german: Berlin – Ecke Schönhauser…) is an East German crime film directed by Gerhard Klein. It was released in 1957. Plot summary Dieter, Angela, Kohle and Karl-Heinz are part of a group of delinquent youth ...

'' (1957) *''

Castles and Cottages ''Schlösser und Katen'' (''Castles And Cottages'') is an East German black-and-white film, directed by Kurt Maetzig. It was released in 1957. Plot Part 1: ''Hunchback Anton'' In a feudal estate in Mecklenburg, the hunchback coachman Anton Zuckma ...

'' (1957) *''

Katzgraben ''Katzgraben'' is an East German film A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, pe ...

'' (1957) *'' Lotte In Weimar'' (1975)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brecht-Schall, Barbara 1930 births 2015 deaths Actresses from Berlin 20th-century German actresses German film actresses Jewish German actresses Family of Bertolt Brecht