Friends and Associates of Bertolt Brecht.

Immediate Family:  Berthold Brecht 1869- Father Sophie Brecht 1871- Mother Walter Brecht 1900- Younger Brother; professor of paper production Marianne Zoff First Wife; Mother of Hanne; opera singer Helene Weigel-Brecht 1900-1971 Second Wife; Mother of Stefan and Barbara; actress Hanne Hiob 1923- Daughter; actress Frank Banholzer Son Stefan Brecht 1924- Son; philosopher Barbara Brecht-Schall 1930- Daughter [Paula (Bi) Banholzer]  Mother of Frank [Mari Hold] House maid [Rolf] Brechts' dog

School-year Friends:  Marie Rose Aman xxxx-xxxx   "The Outcasts" (Die Verworfenen")

Literary Writers:   W. H. Auden  poet Johannes R. Becher  poet Ruth Berlau    (Robert Lund) 1906-1974     Berlau's ex-husband Willi Bredel  writer Arnolt Bronnen  playwright Alfred Döblin 1878-1957 novelist Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger  novelist Marieluise Fleißer  1901-1974 playwright Elisabeth Hauptmann 1897-1970 H. R. Hays  translator Alfred Henschke [Klabund]  poet; husband of Carola Neher Christopher Isherwood  novelist Kurt Kläber  novelist; provides housing when Brecht was in Switerland in the 1930s Karl Kraus  playwight Alfred Kreymborg translator Karen Michaelis novelist Martin Andersen Nexö  novelist Vladmir Pozner  writer Naomi Replansky translator Ferdinand Reyher novelist, script doctor Anna Seghers  novelist Margarete Steffin James and Tania Stern  translator Erwin Strittmatter novelist Sergej Tretjakow plarwright, writer Desmond Vesey  translator Günther Weisenborn  writer, teacher Hella Wuolijoki  1886-1954 novelist, playwright Carl Zuckmayer playwright

Directors:   Alfred Braun  Harry Buckwitz  Emil Frantisek Burian Erich Engel  Jacob Geis  Hermann Greid  1892-1975 Gustav Gründgens  Per Knutzon/    Lulu Ziegler K: director    Z: actress Wolfgang Langhoff  Joseph Losey Erwin Piscator  Max Reinhardt  Bernhard Reich/    Asja Lacis  Hans Schweikart  Giorgio Strehler  Berthold and Salka Viertel    (Hans Viertel)

Actors:   Elisabeth Bergner  xxxx-xxxx Paul Bildt  BE Curt Bois  BE Ernst Busch BE Charlie Chaplin Blandine Ebinger /  Friedrich Holländer E: actress  H: composer Hans Gaugler Erwin Geschonneck BE Therese Giehse BE Heinrich George Lotte Goslar cabaret dancer; choreographer to Life of Galileo in 1947 Alexander Granach Wolfgang Heinz Oskar and Florence Homolka O: actor Angelika Hurwicz  BE Fritz Kortner Charles Laughton  Ernst Legal  Lotte Lenya  Theo Lingen  Peter Lorre Regine Lutz  BE Carola Neher  Elisabeth (Liesel) Neumann  Käthe Reichel BE Luise Rainer Ekkehard Schall BE Leonard Steckel BE Karl Valentin 1882-1948 clown, cabaret performer Naima Wifstrand

Scenic Designers:   Karl von Appen xxxx-xxxx BE Mordecai Gorelik Hainer Hill  BE Caspar and Erika Neher  Teo Otto

Composers:   Franz Bruinier xxxx-xxxx Paul Dessau  Gottfried von Einem  Intendant for the Salzburg Festival Hanns and Louise Eisler Paul Hindemith  Organizer for the Neue Musik Festival in Berlin Edmund Meisel Simon Parmet  1897-1969 Kurt Schwaen Rudolf Wagner-Régeny 1903-1969 Kurt Weill

Film:   Slatan Dudow  xxxx-xxxx director, theatre director Emil Hesse-Burri  script writer Carl Koch  Fritz Lang 1890-1965 director of Hangmen Also Die  Ernst Ottwalt  co-writer on Kuhle Wampe Wolfgang Staudte director for the failed film project of Mother Courage and Her Children John Wexley co-writer on Hangmen Also Die

Other:    Theodor W. Adorno xxxx-xxxx Mikhail Apletin  Union of Soviet Writers Ernst Josef Aufricht  theatre producer Walter Benjamin  philosopher Eric Bentley scholar, translator Ernst Bloch     Hans Hermann Borschardt  1881-1951 writer Bernard von Bretano  journalist Hans Curjel  dramaturg Paul Czinner film producer; husband of Elisabeth Bergner William Dieterle  film producer of Hangmen Also Die Gerhart Eisler    (Ruth Fischer)  Journalist; elder brother of Hanns Eisler    (sister of Hanns) George Grosz  illustrator T. Edward Hambleton  producer of Life of Galileo John Heartfield  graphic artist Wieland Herzfelde  artist, publisher of Aurora and Malik-Verlag Trude Hesterberg  cabaret singer Kurt Hirschfeld  dramaturg Herbert Ihering    (Alfred Kerr)  theatre critic    (opposing theatre critic) Ilse Kasprowiak  secretary at the BE Mikhail Koltsov/    Maria Osten Foreign Bureau of the Union of Soviet Writers Karl Korsch  1886-1961 philosopher Tadeusz Kulisiewicz  illustrator for a collection of sketches on The Caucasian Chalk Circle Artur Kutscher  theatre professor at the University of Munich; Brecht attended his classes. Georg Lukács  literary theorist Heinrich Mann    Thomas Mann  novelists; center of the German emigre in Los Angeles Hans Mayer  literature professor; advisor to BE's Urfaust Paul Samson-Körner  boxer Rudolf Schlichter  artist Ernst Schumacher  scholar, theatre critic Fritz Sternberg  economist, sociologist Peter Suhrkamp  publisher Hans Tombrock  1895-1966 artist Hans (john) Winge journalist; writer Morton Wurtele physicist; "scientific advisor" to Life of Galileo in 1947

Student Assistants at BE:   Benno and Iva Besson  xxxx-xxxx Benno: director at BE; later leaves East Berlin    Iva: music copyist at BE Hans Bunge Claus Hubalek dramaturg at BE Isot Kilian/    Wolfgang Harich  K: dramaturg at BE    H: philosophy professor Egon Monk  director at BE Peter Palitzsch  director at BE Hans Jürgen Syberberg  (film director; shot an 8mm documentary Syberberg fimlt bei Brecht) Carl Weber  director at BE Käthe Rülicke-Weiler  dramaturg at BE Carl Weber  director at Be Manfred Wekwerth director at BE; later Intendant of BE ...and a person who had little idea who Brecht was:   Robert E. Stripling, investigator for the HUAC.