Hanne Hiob (1923–2009)

Hanne Hiob was born Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich, Germany. Her parents were playwright Bertolt Brecht and noted Viennese actress Marianne Zoff. Her parents divorced when she was a small child, and she grew up with her mother and step-fatherTheo Lingen and half-sister Ursula Lingen. Theo Lingen, a popular actor himself, was able to protect his family from persecution during the Nazi regime. In 1941, Hanne began to study dance at the Vienna State Opera and worked as a dancer and actress at the Landestheater Salzburg. At the Volkstheater in Vienna, she worked as an actress from 1945 to 1947. In 1948, she married Joachim Hiob, a physician, and took his surname. Over the years, she worked in theaters in Berlin, Hamburg, and Munich, and played the leading role in Brecht's Señora Carrar's Rifles and in Saint Joan of the Stockyards under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens. She was best known, however, for roles in television series such as Der Komissar (1970) and films including Regentropfen (1981), Dei Letzte Runde (1983), and Hundert Jahre Brecht (1998).