Sanda Weigl
Sanda Weigl (* 1948 in Bucharest ) is a German - Romanian theater director and singer .
Life
Her father Egon Weigl fled the Nazis from Berlin to Bucharest and married Irina Weigl born there after the war. Herscovici (* 1922 in Bacau , Romania). As a young girl she gained first notoriety through appearances on Romanian television, where she sang songs by Maria Tanase.
In 1961, on the advice of his cousin Helene Weigel , Bertolt Brecht's widow , Egon Weigl returned to the GDR with his family to Germany . As a teenager, Sanda became a member of the beat band Team 4 around Thomas Natschinski and took part in their 1968 album Die Straße . The song she sang, The evening has come , took first place in the GDR hit parade. After she had distributed leaflets against the invasion of the Warsaw Pact states in the Czechoslovakia together with her boyfriend at the time Thomas Brasch and other young people , she was sentenced to two and a half years imprisonment for " subversive agitation ". Her early release was followed by a ban on appearing for several years , working on the assembly line in a drug factory for a year and finally expatriation to West Berlin after submitting an application for expatriation and resettlement.
Here Sanda Weigl began to work as a dramaturge, assistant director and later as a director. She worked with Luc Bondy , Jürgen Flimm , Robert Wilson and Peter Zadek at theaters such as the Berlin Schiller Theater , the Münchner Kammerspiele , the Schauspielhaus Zurich and the Thalia Theater in Hamburg.
With her husband, the writer, playwright and actor Klaus Pohl and their little daughters Marie and Lucie, Weigl finally moved to New York in 1992 , where she turned to music again (in collaboration with Anthony Coleman, among others ). In addition to her CDs Gypsy Killer (2002) and Gypsy In A Tree (2011), her appearances at the RuhrTriennale in 2005 and 2007, at the Pina Bausch Festival in Wuppertal, at the celebrations in honor of the Nobel Prize award to Herta Müller in Stockholm, at the Museum of Modern Art New York, Baryshnikov Ringling International Festival in Sarasota, Florida, and Joe's Pub and Cafe Sabarsky, New York received public attention.
Sanda Weigl has a brother, the actor Vladimir Weigl . She and her husband Klaus Pohl have two daughters, the writer Marie Pohl and the actress and comedian Lucie Pohl .
Discography (selection)
- 1968: The road , with team 4
- 2002: Gypsy Killer
- 2011: Gypsy In A Tree
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigl, Sanda |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Romanian singer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bucharest |