Hanne Hiob (12 March 1923 – 23 June 2009) was a German actress.

Life and career

Hiob was born as Hanne Marianne Brecht in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and ...

, the daughter of the writer

Bertolt Brecht Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a p ...

by his wife,

opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a libr ...

singer and actress

Marianne Zoff Marianne Josephine Zoff (30 June 1893 – 22 November 1984) was an Austrian actress and opera singer (mezzo-soprano). Zoff was born in Hainfeld, Lower Austria. Starting in 1919 at the Staatstheater Augsburg, she sang at several German opera ho ...

(1893-1984). In February 1928, Zoff had a daughter, Ursula Lingen, by German actor

Theo Lingen Theo Lingen (; 10 June 1903 – 10 November 1978), born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in more than 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960. Life and c ...

. In September 1928, Brecht and Zoff divorced; Zoff married Lingen later that year. Hanne Brecht later married Joachim Hiob. Hanne grew up with her mother and Theo Lingen, and Lingen was able to protect his wife, who was classified as a half-Jew under the

Nazi Nazism ( ; german: Nazismus), the common name in English for National Socialism (german: Nationalsozialismus, ), is the far-right totalitarian political ideology and practices associated with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party (NSDAP) in ...

-regime, and his daughter from persecution. Hanne Brecht studied dance at the

Vienna State Opera The Vienna State Opera (, ) is an opera house and opera company based in Vienna, Austria. The 1,709-seat Renaissance Revival venue was the first major building on the Vienna Ring Road. It was built from 1861 to 1869 following plans by August ...

and worked as a dancer and an actress in

Salzburg Salzburg (, ; literally "Salt-Castle"; bar, Soizbuag, label=Austro-Bavarian) is the fourth-largest city in Austria. In 2020, it had a population of 156,872. The town is on the site of the Roman settlement of ''Iuvavum''. Salzburg was founded ...

, Austria. Among other parts, she played the leading role in Brecht's ''

Señora Carrar's Rifles ''Señora Carrar's Rifles'' (german: Die Gewehre der Frau Carrar) is a one-act play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in collaboration with Margarete Steffin. It is a modern version of the Irish dramatist John Mil ...

'' and in 1959 in ''

Saint Joan of the Stockyards ''Saint Joan of the Stockyards'' (german: Die heilige Johanna der Schlachthöfe, links=no) is a play written by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht between 1929 and 1931, after the success of his musical ''The Threepenny Opera'' and dur ...

'' under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens. She performed in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin. She retired from the stage in 1976 but remained active reading Brecht works and participating in street theater projects such as the ''Anachronistic Train''. Hiob received the Aachen Peace Prize in 2005.

Death

Hanne Hiob died in Munich, aged 86, from undisclosed causes.

Filmography

Actress

* ''Hundert Jahre Brecht'' (A hundred years of Brecht) (1997) * ''Die letzte Runde'' (The last round) (1983) * '' Raindrops'' (1980/1981) * '' Die Ermittlung'' (The investigation) (by

Peter Weiss Peter Ulrich Weiss (8 November 1916 – 10 May 1982) was a German writer, painter, graphic artist, and experimental filmmaker of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays ''Marat/Sade'' and ''The Investigation'' and hi ...

) (1966) * ''Es fing so harmlos an'' (It began so innocently) (1943/1944) * ' (Mrs. Luna) (1941)

Director

* ''Flüchtlingsgespräche'' (2003)

Literature

*Hanne Hiob, Gerd Koller (ed.) ''Wir verreisen...in die Vernichtung; Briefe 1937–1944'', Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag Berlin (1998),

References

External links

Genealogy
*

Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. new ...

/ ''

The New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', 25 June 2009 * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hiob, Hanne 1923 births 2009 deaths German film actresses 20th-century German Jews German stage actresses Actresses from Munich 20th-century German actresses Family of Bertolt Brecht