Helene WEIGEL was born in Vienna in 1900, an Austrian actress who moved to Berlin to play with the Deutsches Theater and the Berlin Staatstheater, where she married Bertolt BRECHT in 1928. She was the leading actress in "Mother Courage" in 1932 and followed Brecht in exile to Paris in 1938. She later returned to East Berlin in 1949 and joined the Berliner Ensemble and following the death of Brecht in 1956 continued his repertoire.