Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder (film)
Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder is a DEFA film which documents the staging of Bertold Brecht's play of the same name from 1959 to 1961, which Manfred Wekwerth and Peter Palitzsch directed with the Berliner Ensemble, modelled after the original production by Bertolt Brecht and Erich Engel from 1949, with Helene Weigel in the title role. The film, made in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), received a prize at the Locarno Film Festival.
Entrance of the theatre on the opening night, 10 February 1961
Mother Courage and Her Children
Mother Courage and Her Children is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin. Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952, the last three supervised and/or directed by Brecht, who had returned to East Germany from the United States.
Manfred Wekwerth and Gisela May during rehearsals of Mother Courage and Her Children (1978)
Therese Giehse as Mother Courage by Günter Rittner
Angelique Rockas as Yvette and Renu Setna as The Chaplain (1982)