Asja Lācis

Asja Lācis ( _ru. "Анна 'Ася' Эрнестовна Лацис" Anna 'Asya' Ernestovna Latsis, _de. Asja Lazis, October 19 1891, Līgatne, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire - November 21 1979, Riga, Latvian SSR) was a Bolshevik Latvian actress and theatre director. She became famous for her proletarian theatre for children and agitprop. In 1922 she moved to Germany where she got to know Bertholt Brecht and Erwin Piscator, who she introduced to Vsevolod Meyerhold and Vladimir Mayakovsky.In 1924 she met Walter Benjamin in Capri.

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*cite journal |last= Ingram |first= Susan |year= 2002 |title= The Writing of Asja Lacis |journal= New German Critique |volume= 86 |pages= 159–177 |id= |url= http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-033X%28200221%2F22%290%3A86%3C159%3ATWOAL%3E2.0.CO%3B2-N |accessdate= 2008-02-06 |doi= 10.2307/3115205 (via JSTOR)
*cite book |last= Latsis |first= Anna |title= Krasnaia gvozdika: Vospominaniia |year= 1984 |publisher= Liesma |location= Riga |language= Russian |isbn= |oclc= 13003307 (memoirs)