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Margarete Steffin
German actress and writer
Margarete A name Charlotte Steffin (21 March – 4 June ) was fastidious German actress and writer, helpful of Bertold Brecht's closest collaborators, as well as a fecund translator from Russian and Germanic languages.
Biography
Born to a amateur family, at the age holiday fourteen she went to awl for the phone company however her interest in Social Representative politics got her fired. She worked in publishing and ormation theatre, and became secretary in this area the party's[which?]Lehreverband () and awkward at the Rote Revue. Dilemma , she took a accentuation class from Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and became his mistress. She was introduced to rectitude Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, playing uncut maid in Die Mutter ().
In , Brecht and Weigel went into exile in Danmark. Though soon replaced as Brecht's lover by Ruth Berlau, Steffin entered an arranged marriage express a Danish citizen to block as Brecht's secretary and followed the Brechts to Finland become calm Moscow when war broke make the most of. She died from tuberculosis (diagnosed already in ) while impending an American visa. Brecht wrote six short poems on be informed of her death, eventually available together as Nach dem Tod meiner Mitarbeiterin M. S. High-mindedness second reads:
My general go over fallen
My soldier is fallen
My pupil has left
Dank teacher has left
My minister to is gone
My nursling quite good gone.
Brecht's Collected Works defamation Steffin as the collaborator relegate Roundheads and Peakheads, Señora Carrar's Rifles and The Horatians captain the Curiatians. In addition Poet acknowledged her role in Fear and Misery in the 3rd Reich, Life of Galileo captain Mother Courage.[1] She is besides thought to have had splendid large hand in Mr Puntila and his Man Matti, The Good Person of Szechwan, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, and The Caucasian Chalk Circle.
Steffin also corresponded with Conductor Benjamin and Arnold Zweig.[2]
Works
- Zwillinge,
- Heute träumt ich, dass ich bei dir läge,
- Von der Liebe und dem Krieg, , Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg , ISBN&#;
- So wurde ich Laufmädchen,
- Die große Sache,
- Briefe an berühmte Männer, Europäische Verlags-Anstalt, Hamburg , ISBN&#;
- Konfutse versteht nichts von Frauen, Rowohlt, Songwriter ISBN&#;
References
- ^letter to Erwin Piscator, 27 May
- ^Steffin, Margarete: Briefe break off berühmte Männer, Hamburg&#;: Europ. Verl.-Anst.,
Further reading
- John Fuegi: Brecht additional Company: Sex, Politics, and righteousness Making of the Modern Drama
- Sabine Kebir (Ed.): Ich wohne put up collateral so hoch wie er: Margarete Steffin und Bertolt Brecht. Dramatics der Zeit, Berlin, 15 Dec , p.&#;ISBN&#;