The Voice from the 10Th
The Voice from the 10th Row Carl Weber and the Berliner Ensemble an interview by Branislav Jakovljević, Keara Harman, Michael Hunter, Jamie Lyons, Lindsey Mantoan, Ljubiša Matić, Ciara Murphy, Jens Pohlmann, Ryan Tacata, and Giulia Vittori Carl Weber’s career spanned over six decades and two continents; he was an actor and director in post-WWII East Germany, an assistant director and actor (among other things) in Bertolt Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble, a director in Western Europe and the United States, one of the premier translators of Heiner Müller’s dramas, and an accomplished theatre pedagogue. During the 2011/2012 academic year, a group of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students at Stanford University organized a series of interviews with Professor Weber, which received support from the Stanford Humanities Center’s Theodore and Frances Geballe Research Workshops. In these interviews we focused on Weber’s work in the Berliner Ensemble during Brecht’s final years. The participants in the workshop were: Branislav Jakovljevic´ — convener, faculty at Stanford’s department of Theater and Performance Studies (TAPS); Leslie Hill — video documentation, faculty at TAPS; Lindsey Mantoan — graduate student, TAPS; Michael Figure 1. From left: Wolfgang Pintzka, Helene Weigel, and Carl Weber, Berliner Ensemble, 12 May 1960. (Courtesy of Bertolt Brecht Archive) TDR: The Drama Review 62:3 (T239) Fall 2018. ©2018 New York University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 55 Downloaded from http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/dram_a_00773
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