Together they wrote theater history: Bertolt Brecht and Helene Weigel. Between 1923 and 1956, they were lovers, parents, accomplices, confidants, friends, spouses, business partners and artistic adversaries. Their correspondence from this period provides intimate insights into a special couple dynamic. For the online edition of the Brecht Festival, the artist couple Charly Hübner and Lina Beckmann trace the secret of this dynamic's success within their own four walls.
With: Lina Beckmann, Charly Hübner
© Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin / Bertolt-Brecht-Erben
A production of the Brechtfestival Augsburg 2021
Press reviews:
"Beckmann and Hübner go straight to Brecht in the film contribution entitled "HelliBert &PandeMia". Beckmann and Hübner read letters that Brecht and Weigel wrote to each other. It is about balancing their own relationship, but also about life and survival in exile. Images of Hamburg are juxtaposed with this written dialog. An early radio news fade-in of the present suggests that these were recorded during the lockdown in January or February. Sometimes there are views of port facilities on the Elbe, then a barely used passenger ship, the deserted Reeperbahn. Together, this leads to a different way of listening. Because just as everyday life has somehow been turned upside down during the pandemic, so it was for Brecht and Weigel in exile. They dealt meticulously and in minute detail with film projects that were then shattered while the war raged in Europe and the Pacific."
- Augsburger Allgemeine, 2.3.2021
With: Lina Beckmann, Charly Hübner
© Suhrkamp Verlag Berlin / Bertolt-Brecht-Erben
A production of the Brechtfestival Augsburg 2021
Press reviews:
"Beckmann and Hübner go straight to Brecht in the film contribution entitled "HelliBert &PandeMia". Beckmann and Hübner read letters that Brecht and Weigel wrote to each other. It is about balancing their own relationship, but also about life and survival in exile. Images of Hamburg are juxtaposed with this written dialog. An early radio news fade-in of the present suggests that these were recorded during the lockdown in January or February. Sometimes there are views of port facilities on the Elbe, then a barely used passenger ship, the deserted Reeperbahn. Together, this leads to a different way of listening. Because just as everyday life has somehow been turned upside down during the pandemic, so it was for Brecht and Weigel in exile. They dealt meticulously and in minute detail with film projects that were then shattered while the war raged in Europe and the Pacific."
- Augsburger Allgemeine, 2.3.2021
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