Life and career

Hiob was born as Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

, the daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director.An influential theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made equally significant contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter particularly through the seismic impact of the tours undertaken by the...

 by his wife, opera

Opera

Opera is an art form in which singers and musicians perform a dramatic work combining text and musical score, usually in a theatrical setting. Opera incorporates many of the elements of spoken theatre, such as acting, scenery, and costumes and sometimes includes dance...

 singer and actress Marianne Zoff

Marianne Zoff

Marianne Josephine Zoff was an Austrian actress and opera singer.Zoff was the first wife of Bertolt Brecht, to whom she was married from 3 November 1922 until September 1927...

 (1893–1984). In February 1928, Zoff had a daughter, Ursula Lingen

Ursula Lingen

Ursula Lingen is an Austrian television actress.Lingen is the daughter of actor Theo Lingen and actress Marianne Zoff , the first wife of Bertolt Brecht. Zoff's daughter, actress Hanne Hiob, was Ursula Lingen's half-sister...

, by German actor Theo Lingen

Theo Lingen

Theo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.-Life and career:...

. In September 1928, Brecht and Zoff divorced; Zoff married Lingen later that year. 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

Nazism, the common short form name of National Socialism was the ideology and practice of the Nazi Party and of Nazi Germany...

-regime, and his daughter from persecution.

Hanne Brecht studied dance at the Vienna State Opera

Vienna State Opera

The Vienna State Opera is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera . In 1920, with the replacement of the Habsburg Monarchy by the First Austrian...

 and worked as a dancer and an actress in Salzburg

Salzburg

-Population development:In 1935, the population significantly increased when Salzburg absorbed adjacent municipalities. After World War II, numerous refugees found a new home in the city. New residential space was created for American soldiers of the postwar Occupation, and could be used for...

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

Señora Carrar's Rifles

Señora Carrar's Rifles is a one-act play by the twentieth-century German dramatist Bertolt Brecht, written in collaboration with Margerete Steffin. It is a modern version of the Irish dramatist John Millington Synge's play Riders to the Sea . The play's setting is re-located to Spain during the...

and in 1959 in Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Saint Joan of the Stockyards

Saint Joan of the Stockyards 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 during the period of his radical experimental work with the Lehrstücke. It is based on the musical that he co-authored...

under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens

Gustaf Gründgens

Gustaf Gründgens , born Gustav Heinrich Arnold Gründgens, was one of Germany's most famous and influential actors of the 20th century, intendant and artistic director of theatres in Berlin, Düsseldorf, and Hamburg...

. 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.

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

Actress

• Hundert Jahre Brecht (A hundred years of Brecht) (1997)
• Die letzte Runde (The last round) (1983)
• Regentropfen (Rain drops) (1980/1981)
• Die Ermittlung
  The Investigation (play)
  The Investigation is a play by Peter Weiss written in 1965 which depicts the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials of 1963-1965. It premiered on October 19, 1965 on stages in fourteen West and East German cities and at the Royal Shakespeare Company in London. It carries the subtitle "Oratorio in 11 Cantos"...
  
  (The investigation) (by Peter Weiss
  Peter Weiss
  Peter Ulrich Weiss was a German writer, painter, and artist of adopted Swedish nationality. He is particularly known for his plays Marat/Sade and The Investigation and his novel The Aesthetics of Resistance....
  
  ) (1966)
• Es fing so harmlos an (It began so innocently) (1943/1944)
• Frau Luna (Mrs. Luna) (1941)

Literature

• Hanne Hiob, Gerd Koller (ed.) Wir verreisen...in die Vernichtung; Briefe 1937–1944, Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag Berlin (1998), ISBN 3-7466-1395-7

External links

• Genealogy
• "Hanne Hiob, Brecht’s Acting Kin, Dies at 86", Associated Press
  Associated Press
  The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...
  
   / The New York Times
  The New York Times
  The New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
  
  , June 25, 2009