Isot Kilian

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Isot Kilian (born April 11, 1924 in Berlin-Köpenick ; † March 14, 1986 ) was a German actress , dramaturgy and assistant director .

Life

Isot Kilian was the daughter of Götz Kilian and his wife Liddy (1895-1992). The name Isot probably goes back to a figure from a work by Maxim Gorki , where however it denotes a male person. It is also possible that it is derived from the Isolde from Tristan and Isolde - Isot is a z. B. Name variant handed down to Gottfried von Straßburg . Isot Kilian's childhood in Berlin-Köpenick was overshadowed by the rise of the Nazis to power. In the Köpenick Blood Week in 1933, her father was so beaten that he, very ill, died of the consequences in 1940. In 1934 the family persecuted by the Nazis (the parents Liddy and Götz Kilian, both active members of the KPD ) moved to Hamburg to escape the Berlin Gestapo . In 1939 Isot met the still unknown writer Wolfgang Borchert there. She took acting lessons and worked with Borchert on his first plays. She had another childhood friendship with Günther Mackenthun . She did not marry either of them, but had their first daughter in 1941, who is also called Isot. She played in several theaters.

In 1946 Isot Kilian moved back to Berlin with her mother , worked for radio and a. a. with Egon Monk at the cabaret Frischer Wind , which performed his poems and songs before Bertolt Brecht's return from Switzerland. In 1949 she was hired by Helene Weigel for the newly founded Berliner Ensemble as an actress, dramaturgy and assistant director.

In 1952 Isot Kilian married the philosopher and journalist Wolfgang Harich , with whom she had their second daughter, Katharina. The marriage was divorced after only two years. Since 1953, the closeness and familiarity with Bert Brecht grew, whose last lover and closest collaborator she was now for the remaining short time. Almost ten years after Brecht's death in 1965, Isot Kilian married the actor Bruno Carstens . She stayed with the theater all her life, at the Berliner Ensemble and later at the Institute for Drama Directing , also in Berlin.

Tomb of the couple

She rests next to her husband in the Dorotheenstadt cemetery in Berlin.

Works

  • 1943/44: Supporting role in the UFA film Träumerei about the life and love of Clara Wieck and Robert Schumann
  • 1953: Frau Carrar's rifles , director: Egon Monk , radio play production for the GDR radio - assistant director
  • 1958: The Mother (theater recording) - screenplay
  • 1959/60: Assistant director of the DEFA feature film Mother Courage and Her Children
  • 1971: Screenplay for the DEFA television film Optimistic Tragedy with her second husband Bruno Carstens in the leading role
  • 1973: Cement (TV film, 2 parts) - collaboration on the script

Filmography

Theater (direction)

literature

  • Arnim, Ditte von: Brecht's last love. The life of the Isot Kilian . Transit Buchverlag, Berlin 2006, 180 pages, approx. 50 illustrations, ISBN 3-88747-215-2

See also

Brecht (film biography)

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Kilian, isot
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kilian, Isoth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1986