Gisela May

Gisela May (born 1924) is a leading East German performer of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht. She also appeared as an actress in anumber of films between 1951 and 1991.

May has been internationally acclaimed as "First Lady of the Political Song and Best Brecht Interpreter". Who|date=August 2008 She has performed all over the world where for the past forty years when. May was one of the leading artists in the former DDR from the early fifties onward. She enjoyed an intensive collaboration with composer Hanns Eisler and was attached as an actress to the Berliner Ensemble for thirty years, until she was fired in 1990, after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Fact|date=August 2008

Now she sings every two months at the Berliner Ensemble the songs of Brecht, Weill, Eisler and Dessau.

Gisela May is the subject of a recent film, "Every Song Tells a Story" (1998). The film won the "Prix Meilleure Vie d'Artiste Festival International du Film d'Art' 1998, [Paris] .

Awards

* 1991 "Deutscher Filmpreis" (German Film Award) Film Award in Gold for "outstanding individual achievement": Category actress for: Die Hallo-Sisters (1990) [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561957/awards imdb awards] Accessed August 6 2008]
* 2002 Bundesverdienstkreuz

References

External links

* [http://www.giselamay.de/ May personal webpage]
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0561957/ imdb]