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    The Berliner Ensemble (German pronunciation: [bɛʁˈliːnɐ ʔãˈsãːbl̩]) is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband,...
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  • Berlin and has performed at the Kammerspiele, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble. In 2019, she portrayed Germania in the music video for Rammstein's...
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    is a German actress and stage director. She played theatre at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne Berlin, and was actress in the film The Tin...
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    Ibsen (as Aase, Berliner Ensemble), director: Peter Zadek 2005 The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare (as Paulina, Berliner Ensemble), director: Robert...
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    Party member from 1930. Weigel became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble on 16 February 1949.[citation needed] She is best remembered for creating...
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  • frequently organised by theatre practitioners (e.g. Bertolt Brecht's Berliner Ensemble or Tadeusz Kantor's Cricot 2). The membership can be divided into...
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    where he has been a director and a member of the ensemble since 2009. When the Berliner Ensemble performed at Berkeley in 1999, his portrayal of Hitler...
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  • play lingered in the drawer until 1953, after Brecht had founded the Berliner Ensemble, and had produced there his major works. He showed the play around...
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  • Berlin Berliner Ensemble, a German theatre company Berliner Kurier, a regional daily tabloid Berliner Messe, or Berlin Mass, a mass by Arvo Pärt Berliner Morgenpost...
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    Brecht's legacy after his death within the Berliner Ensemble, see David Barnett, A History of the Berliner Ensemble (Cambridge University Press, 2015), 146–70...
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    to East Berlin after the war, he established the theatre company Berliner Ensemble with his wife and long-time collaborator, actress Helene Weigel. Eugen...
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    opened on 19 November 1892. Since 1954, it has been home to the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, founded in 1949 by Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht...
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  • Theatre, Philadelphia, directed by Bentley. Its German premiere by the Berliner Ensemble was on October 7, 1954, at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin...
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    studied acting in Leipzig, before moving to Berlin to work at the Berliner Ensemble and at the Volksbühne. He also lived in Paris where he started to...
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    year. In 1955 Brecht prepared a third version. A production, by the Berliner Ensemble with Ernst Busch in the title role, opened in January 1957 at the...
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  • The Berlin Philharmonic (German: Berliner Philharmoniker) is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected...
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    of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner Ensemble. Schall first went on stage in 1947 in Magdeburg. After engagements...
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    Theatre Prize for Elektra, Burgtheater Wien "Michael Thalheimer". berliner-ensemble.de. Retrieved 29 October 2020. Michael Thalheimer on Operabase "Michael...
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  • post-Brechtian German theatre practitioner Heiner Müller (who ran Brecht's Berliner Ensemble for a short while) argues that "[r]eflecting the actions through the...
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  • is written in the form of a dialogue with his collaborators at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company. The play was first staged by Heinrich Koch at the...
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    Berliner Ensemble and the Stadttheater Freiburg. Her first major success in 2007, was the role of Thekla in Peter Stein's Wallenstein at the Berliner...
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    Berlin-Mitte. Starting in 1976, Troegner was part of the theatre company Berliner Ensemble where she played in Brecht plays, e.g. Mother Courage and Her Children...
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    Fano, 1998 Bertolt Brecht's The Flight Across the Ocean for the Berliner Ensemble, 1998 The Days Before – Death Destruction & Detroit III, (with Ryuichi...
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    adaptation titled Fabian oder der Gang vor die Hunde was performed by the Berliner Ensemble. An adaptation by Henrik Kuhlmann premiered on 31 March 2023 at the...
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    was a German theatre director. He worked with Bertolt Brecht in his Berliner Ensemble from the beginning in 1949, and was in demand internationally as a...
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  • Schlöndorff. On stage, he performed at Berlin's Volksbühne and with the Berliner Ensemble. Born in Bremen, Spengler began a commercial apprenticeship at age...
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    According to Manfred Wekwerth, one of Brecht's directors at the Berliner Ensemble at the time, the term refers to the "'dialecticising' of events" that...
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    as a member of Brecht's theatre, the Berliner Ensemble. In the mid-1970s, she returned to the Berliner Ensemble to perform several Brecht Evenings of...
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    Brecht adapted Shakespeare's play in 1952–55, as Coriolan for the Berliner Ensemble. He intended to make it a tragedy of the workers, not the individual...
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    company, the Berliner Ensemble, which would provide him a venue to direct many of his plays. (Brecht died directing Galileo for the Ensemble.) Brecht revised...
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