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SummaryFirst theatre impressions in his childhood, politically motivated emigration to Poland, then to Prague, lived here together with John Heartfield, because of theatre foundation to Moscow, lived with Gustav von Wangenheim, 1934 first impression of Stalin, theatre work at the German regional theatre Dnepropetrowsk, about his expulsion from the Soviet Union, 1938 return to Prague, 1939 betrayal and arrest at the Polish border, attempt of the National Socialists, to advertise him as an informer, as a political prisoner and block elder in various concentration camps, after the war via the committee of former political prisoners to Hamburg, there theatre actor, change to Berlin to BE, about the plays "Herr Puntila und sein Knecht Matti" (Brecht) and "Katzgraben" (Strittmatter), about staging and premiere, role of Don Juan, relationship to Bertolt Brecht, change to film, the 17th century, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry, the German film industry. June 1953, Brecht's attitude to it and reactions of the actors, work as a film and television actor, e.g. in the films "People with Wings" and "Jakob the Liar" (after Jurek Becker) about the GDR and socialism, especially about art and cultural politics, the 11th plenum of the Central Committee of the SED.
