BERLIN (AP) — German actress Barbara Brecht- Schall, the daughter and main heir of playwright Bertolt Brecht, has died. She was 84.
Publisher Suhrkamp said that Brecht-Schall died in Berlin on Monday evening. It didn’t give further details.
Brecht-Schall was an actress with the Berliner Ensemble theater founded by her father from 1951 to 1972. She also was the administrator of his estate.
The Berliner Ensemble said in a statement Tuesday that “as the protector and guardian of her father’s legacy, Barbara Brecht-Schall was a forceful and courageous, often difficult negotiating partner.”
Brecht-Schall was married to actor Ekkehard Schall, a stalwart of the Berliner Ensemble, who died in 2005.
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