Hanne Hiob

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Hanne Hiob, born Hanne Marianne Brecht (born March 12 1923 in Munich) is a German actress. Hanne Hiob is the daughter of writer Bertolt Brecht and actress Marianne Zoff. She grew up with her mother and the German actor Theo Lingen. She studied dance at the Vienna opera house in Austria. She worked as a dancer and an actress in Salzburg, Austria. At the premiere of Brecht's Saint Joan of the Stockyards in 1959 she played the leading role under Gustav Gründgens. Since then she has performeded in many theaters in Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Vienna and Berlin.

Hiob retired from the stage in 1976 but is still active reading Brecht works and participating in street theater projects such as the "Anachronistic Train". She has been awarded a number of prizes for her work as an actress and for her work against fascism, racism and war.

Filmography

Actress

Hundert Jahre Brecht (1997)
Die letzte Runde (1983)
Regentropfen (1980/1981)
Die Ermittlung (1966)
Es fing so harmlos an (1943/1944)
Frau Luna (1941)

Director

Flüchtlingsgespräche (2003)

Literature

Hanne Hiob, Gerd Koller (ed.) Wir verreisen...in die Vernichtung; Briefe 1937-1944 Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag Berlin 1998 ISBN 3746613957

External links

[Genealogy]

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