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	Berliner Ensemble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Berliner Ensemble was a German theatre company established by playwright, Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Helene Weigel in January 1949.
		After Brecht's death, Weigel continued managing the Berliner Ensemble until her death in 1971.
		The company expanded it selection to that of other European playwrights, although its fame has decreased after the passing of the founders.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berliner_Ensemble (107 words)

	ensemble - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 1967 Boulez became a guest conductor of the Cleveland (Ohio) Orchestra; he remained associated with the orchestra until 1972.
		Berliner Ensemble, German theater company established in January 1949 by German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht and his wife, Austrian actor...
		Marriner, Sir Neville, born in 1924, British conductor and violinist, founder of the Saint Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /ensemble.html (155 words)

	IBS: Berliner Ensemble
		In 1992, under the new artistic management of Matthias Langhoff, Fritz Marquardt, Heiner Müller, Peter Palitzsch, and Peter Zadek, the Berliner Ensemble changed from a state-owned theater into a private, limited company subsidized by the city government.
		After reunification in 1990, the Ensemble was transformed into a public corporation with an enormous city subsidy and a collective management team of well-known directors.
		Claus Peymann, the provocative and successful manager of the Burgtheater in Vienna was finally appointed to the position and opened the theater in January 2000, after extensive renovations were completed during the next months.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /german/brecht/ensemble.html (636 words)

	Theatre Berlin \| Footprint Guides
		Berlin remains a major cultural centre with dramatic arts playing a dominant role.
		Bertolt Brecht, after leaving Hollywood in the 1940s due to the rise of McCarthyism, settled in East Berlin and founded the famous Berliner Ensemble with his wife Helene Weigel.
		Berliner Ensemble, Bertolt-Brecht-Platz 1, T 282 31 60, http://www.berliner-ensemble.de S-Bahn and U-Bahn Friedrichstr.
	www.footprintguides.com /Berlin/Theatre-Arts-and-Entertainment.php (352 words)

	Obituaries in the news - Boston.com
		BERLIN (AP) -- Benno Besson, a Swiss-born director who worked with influential playwright Bertolt Brecht and later enjoyed success at theaters across Europe, has died, according to a death notice published Saturday.
		The notice placed in the Berliner Zeitung newspaper by the Deutsches Theater, where Besson worked in the 1960s, did not specify the date or cause of death.
		Two years later, he joined the Berliner Ensemble, the East Berlin theater founded by Brecht, as an actor and assistant director.
	www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2006/02/25/obituaries_in_the_news (1005 words)

	Ekkehard Schall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ekkehard Schall (May 29, 1930 in Magdeburg – September 3, 2005 in Berlin) was a German stage and screen actor/director.
		He was one of the best profiled actors of Brecht's works and together with Helene Weigel a member of the Berliner Ensemble.
		After engagements in Frankfurt (Oder) (Stadttheater Frankfurt (Oder)) and on the Neuen Bühne in Berlin, Bertolt Brecht engaged him 1952 for the Berliner Ensemble.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ekkehard_Schall (192 words)

	Bringing Brecht to Berkeley / Berlin troupe's Wuttke to play Hitler as a dog in `Arturo Ui'
		Warhorse news anchors teeter on the verge of extinction.
		The Berliner ensemble of East Berlin invades Berkeley.
		The Berliner Ensemble was formed in 1949 by Brecht, his wife, Helene Weigel, and designer Caspar Neher.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/06/29/DD78048.DTL&type=performance (1034 words)

	Guardian \| Ekkehard Schall
		The German actor Ekkehard Schall, who has died aged 75, was a pillar of the Berliner Ensemble from its beginnings until 1989, when the German Democratic Republic (GDR), with which the theatre was symbiotically linked, ceased to exist.
		After her death, he and his wife, controlling the performance rights to Brecht's plays, were determined to maintain the texts' integrity and Brecht's style of performance.
		By the end of the 1960s the ossified ensemble had become a Brecht museum in the eyes of many critics and Ruth Berghaus was appointed director.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5280391-103532,00.html (825 words)

	Berliners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Worked for two years with the Berliner Ensemble, before forming his own Berliner Arbeiter- und Studententheater, which was officially disapproved of.
		He continued to live in East Berlin until, in 1976, after touring West Germany, he was refused re-entry to East Germany.
		During the 60s, abuse was directed at him from Adenauer and other right-wingers because he had left the country because of the Nazis, and because of his illegitimate birth.
	bdaugherty.tripod.com /berlin/peopleB.html (191 words)

	Trapdoor Theatre Shows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Bertolt Brecht was born in Augsburg, a provincial Bavarian city in Germany, on February 10, 1898, and died in Berlin on August 14, 1956.
		Baal is his first published and performed play, completed by 1918, and reflects much of the physical surrounding and atmosphere of provincial Bavaria as well as confronting the artistically cosmopolitan Munich, to which the medical orderly, Brecht, went to study medicine after W.W.I..
		He studied at Columbia and later at the Berliner Ensemble in Berlin and with Peter Stein and Robert Wilson at the Berliner Schaubuhne.
	www.trapdoortheatre.com /trapdoor/show.cfm?id=5 (315 words)

	Wolf Biermann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until 1955 he lived at a boarding school near Schwerin; he then began studying political economics at the Humboldt University of Berlin.
		From 1957 to 1959 he was an assistant director at the Berliner Ensemble; at university he changed courses to study philosophy and mathematics.
		It produced a show called Berliner Brautgang documenting the building of the Berlin wall and was shut down by the authorities in 1963.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wolf_Biermann (584 words)

	Marat/Sade at the Berliner Ensemble
		The current production at the Berliner Ensemble in the east of Berlin, a theatre associated above all with the name Bertolt Brecht, is nevertheless a historical first.
		Before addressing the play and the adaptation presented at the Berliner Ensemble it is worth briefly recalling the career and work of Peter Weiss, one of the most thoughtful and challenging literary and artistic figures to emerge in post-war Europe.
		Peter Weiss' schooling in Berlin was interrupted by the Nazi take-over and in 1934 the family emigrated first to England and then in 1939 to Sweden.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2000/may2000/weis-m25.shtml (2413 words)

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		Despite the additional material published in the new Berlin and Frankfurt edition, much less is known about Brecht's later interest in the radio and his engagement with the East German broadcast medium after his return there.
		The five programs were, according to Pietrzynski, distinctive in the landscape of the GDR broadcast medium for the balanced political approach and the natural speaking style, which contrasted with the habitual optimism and diction of normal radio fare.
		Already prior to his arrival in 1949, the Berliner Rundfunk in the Soviet Occupied Zone had produced five radio adaptations of scenes or play excerpts (and Brecht did not hesitate to demand the royalties owed him for these and other unauthorized broadcasts of his texts).
	www.trafoberlin.de /Rezensionen/260-2-r.htm (1310 words)

	Admiralspalast, that made Brecht famous, to reopen
		Berlin, July 19 (DPA) Fifty years after Bertolt Brecht's death, the Admiralspalast, a noted 1920s revue theatre here, will be given a new lease of life in early August when a new production of the Dreigroschenoper ("The Threepenny Opera") will be premiered.
		It was largely due to Brecht that some of the most innovative, exciting theatre was produced in both east and west Germany during the Cold War years of the 1950s and '60s after communist authorities gave the Augsburg-born playwright the opportunity to create the Berliner Ensemble out of the Schiffbauerdamm theatre in 1949.
		At a press conference at the Admiralspalast theatre, the actor said he had recently had a lengthy talk with Brecht's daughter Barbara in Berlin, but they had very different opinions on the playwright who, was regarded as a "Commie sympathizer", in the 1940s and '50s.
	nowrunning.com /news/news.asp?it=7221 (720 words)

	ArtScope.net: Mother Courage and Her Children
		The acting style of the ensemble is, arguably, the most important device of the epic theatre.
		All of the ensemble is clad in James Schuette costumes that are excellent indicators of social class and individuality--stylized, not realistic.
		Yet, there are several members of the ensemble who do achieve the epic theatre's "gest" of showing the meaning of the play.
	www.artscope.net /PAREVIEWS/mothercourage101801.shtml (1532 words)

	TIME: Sturm Und Brecht
		This year marks the centenary of Brecht's birth, and Germany has had to figure out how, in a reunified, post-communist era, to deal with an unrepentant Marxist whose Berliner Ensemble was an artistic showcase for the East German state.
		The centenary celebrations--and the controversy--began in earnest at the Berliner Ensemble on Jan. 28 with the premiere of experimental American director Robert Wilson's production of Brecht's The Ocean Flight, a radio-parable ode to Charles Lindbergh.
		As a result of the bad publicity the Berlin Senate coughed up the money, but the Ensemble is pursuing corporate and private sponsorship just in case.
	time.com /time/magazine/1998/int/980302/the_arts.theater.sturm_u18.html (738 words)

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		The original production, written for the Berliner Ensemble, was condemned by Stalinist critics as “formalist” and “politically harmful,” although it was hugely popular.
		Wekwerth left the Berliner Ensemble from 1969 to 1977 over disagreements with Brecht’s widow, Helene Weigel, but then returned to manage the theater until 1991.
		He was also the president of the East German Academy of Arts for almost a decade and the director of the Institute for Directing in Berlin.
	www.umass.edu /defa/films/mutter.shtml (286 words)

	Dynastic Reflections
		In Germany, as I was poignantly reminded during a recent trip to Berlin, the situation is exactly the same with one interesting twist: show-biz dynasties flourish there in an environment where theater is taken much more seriously than in America.
		Schall is the granddaughter of Brecht and the daughter of Barbara Brecht-Schall, who tightly controls the rights to her father's plays in Germany and who wielded extraordinary control over the Berliner Ensemble during the last two decades of the GDR.
		In the mid 1950s, Benno Besson had another child with the Berliner Ensemble actress Sabine Thalbach (the original Katrin in Mother Courage), Katharina Thalbach, who after her mother's death at age 34 (from a thrombosis) became a sort of house orphan at the BE under Helene Weigel's tutelage.
	www.hotreview.org /articles/dynastic.htm (2256 words)

	IBS: Announcements
		He will be remembered as one of the great actors trained by Brecht at the Berliner Ensemble who starred in virtually all the male lead roles at that theater from the 1950s til the 1990s.
		Kowalchuk's background is in devised and ensemble theatre (longtime teacher was an Odin Teatret actor from Denmark), and Walker’s background is improvisation.
		The documentary images of scenes filmed at the Berliner Ensemble are silent and often blurred, but they are valuable as the only available cinematic documentation of Brecht rehearsing scenes at this own theater.
	german.lss.wisc.edu /brecht/announce.html (1904 words)

	Jestrovic
		Robert Wilson’s triptych The Oceanflight, which premiered in 1998 in Berliner Ensemble, is a new reading of Brecht’s didactic play, in the light of succeeding texts, performance styles and experience of history that filled the transition from modernism to postmodernism.
		Wilson’s theater is the one of transition and transgression as based on the strategy of taking materials, images, sounds, movements, dramatic texts out of their habitual context in order to rejuvenate their presence.
		It is not accidental that Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, as a theatre who cherishes Brechtian tradition, puts on its repertoire a production of Brecht’s play that, even though makes use of his devices, diverges so much from the notion of Brechtian understood as a formulaic model.
	www.athe.org /FG/tc/jestrovic.html (3096 words)

	Berliner Ensemble
		The Berliner Ensemble is a theater with a long tradition.
		It was the home of Bertolt Brecht and Heiner Mueller, and since 1999 it has been directed by Claus Peymann (formerly director of the Burgtheater, Vienna).
		Wilson is an international celebrity of the theater as architect of the unique Gesamtkunstwerk productions, which consist of space and light, costume and stage design, single actor and ensemble.
	www.ableton.com /index/artists/berlinerensemble (564 words)

	A Model of Courage
		Helene Weigel, Brecht's wife and the co-founder of the Berliner Ensemble, gave the first German performance of Mother Courage at Berlin's Deutsches Theater in 1949, and after more than fifty years, her portrayal of the resourceful peddler who makes a living from the Thirty Years War remains definitive.
		This outstanding archive, together with a 1960 film of the Berliner Ensemble's performance, has preserved Helene Weigel's Courage as a cultural icon to be imitated or subverted by all subsequent productions.
		The special style that Brecht had praised in Weigel and that he developed further at the Berliner Ensemble, was an extension of the techniques of "epic theatre" that he had been practicing for almost thirty years.
	www.amrep.org /past/courage/courage2.html (1854 words)

	FREYER ENSEMBLE: Achim Freyer
		The "Meisterschüler" of Bertolt Brecht was born in 1934 and before he turned his attention toward the theater, where he has worked as stage director, set and costume designer, he was educated as a painter.
		His dramatic productions have been shown in the Berlin Schlosspark Theater, the Schiller Theater in Berlin, the Berliner Ensemble (i.e.
		In 1999, Achim Freyer was awarded the theater prize presented annually by the ITI (International Theater Institute).
	www.freyer-ensemble.de /e/achim_freyer.htm (653 words)

	Ariadne Daskalakis - US Violinist
		She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University and two further degrees from the Hochschule der Künste Berlin – the Diplom and the Konzertexamen – all of which she received with honors.
		She has given recitals in venues such as the Kammermusiksaal of Berlin’s Philharmonie, the Max-Keilberth-Saal in Bamberg, Barnes Hall at Cornell University and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.
		She was a featured soloist at the Bachtage Ansbach in 2001, the Berliner Festwochen in 2000 and in the series „Debut in Deutschlandradio“ in 1999.
	www.musiciansgallery.com /start/strings/violins/daskalakis/ariadne.html (465 words)

	Schwules Museum - Former Exhibition
		Born in August 1941 in an East German village, Heino Hilger was a youth during the early years of the German Democratic Republic (GDR).
		After finishing his hairdressers' training, Heino Hilger was engaged by the Berliner Ensemble as a make-up artist.
		Along with the other ensemble members, he enjoyed the many advantages of this state-supported cultural institution as well as its familiar atmosphere.
	www.schwulesmuseum.de /html/au_1/au_da_1_2_bio_en.htm (549 words)

	sfweekly.com\| Arts & Entertainment\| Berliners' Rise and Fall
		For instance, the Berliner Ensemble performed in a beautiful old East Berlin theater 50 years after Bertolt Brecht founded the company in 1949, and enjoyed lavish government subsidies for long-rehearsed productions of the satirical master's plays.
		Brecht was living in Santa Monica when he wrote it, and his idea was to show American audiences how fascism could fester in their native soil.
		The Berliner Ensemble's current version, staged by the late Heiner MYller, is famous across Europe as one of the company's most successful productions.
	www.sfweekly.com /issues/1999-06-30/calendar/nightday3.html (232 words)

	Theatre
		After engagements in Frankfurt, Berlin, Manburg, Stuttgart and Salzburg, Martin Wuttke in 1996 became the artistic director of the Berliner Ensemble.
		He has been a member of the Berliner Ensemble since 1992, co-directing all the Heiner Müller productions and also directing his own.
		In 1996 he assumed administrative responsibilities at the Berliner Ensemble by becoming vice-director.
	www.lafn.org /~cymbala/arturoui.html (2476 words)

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