At Chausseestraße 125 Berlin sits the Brecht-Weigel-Museum, former home to the acting-playwriting couple Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. A touring visit focuses mostly on the upper apartment that served as Brecht’s living and working quarters from 1953 until his death in 1956. Amidst the accumulation of books, useful oddities and useless trinkets the playwright’s bedroom stands out for its austerity, being little more than a monastic cell decked with only an uncomfortable looking single bed. If on your tour you begin to wonder where there was room for Weigel you are disabused of your cohabiting assumptions as you move to the downstairs apartment and its verdant, well stocked kitchen. She moved to this apartment after Brecht’s death, but she lived separately in an apartment on second floor when he was alive too. According to the tour guide it was Brecht’s responsibility to send a note requesting admittance before he was allowed into Weigel’s living space.
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At Chausseestraße 125 Berlin sits the Brecht-Weigel-Museum, former home to the acting-playwriting couple Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht. A touring visit focuses mostly on the upper apartment that served as Brecht’s living and working quarters from 1953 until his death in 1956. Amidst the accumulation of books, useful oddities and useless trinkets the playwright’s bedroom stands out for its austerity, being little more than a monastic cell decked with only an uncomfortable looking single bed. If on your tour you begin to wonder where there was room for Weigel you are disabused of your cohabiting assumptions as you move to the downstairs apartment and its verdant, well stocked kitchen. She moved to this apartment after Brecht’s death, but she lived separately in an apartment on second floor when he was alive too. According to the tour guide it was Brecht’s responsibility to send a note requesting admittance before he was allowed into Weigel’s living space.