Asja Lacis

Asja Lācis (Russian: Анна 'Ася' Эрнестовна Лацис, Anna 'Asya' Ernestovna Latsis; German: Asja Lazis; 19 October 1891 – 21 November 1979) was a Latvian actress and theatre director.

Writings

• Revolutionär im Beruf, Berichte über proletarisches Theater, über Meyerhold, Brecht, Benjamin und Piscator, ed. Hildegard Brenner, Munich: Rogner & Bernhard, 1971, 132 pp. Review: Parmalee (NGC 1975 EN). (German)
• Krasnaia gvozdika. Vospominaniia, Riga: Liesma, 1986. Memoirs. (Russian)

Literature

• Dagmāra Ķimele, Gunta Strautmane, Asja: režisores Annas Lāces dēkainā dzīve [Asja: The Stormy Life of the director Anna Lāce], Riga: Likteņstāsti, 1996. (Latvian)
• Susan Ingram, "The Writing of Asja Lacis", New German Critique 86 (2002), pp 159-177. (English)
• Susan Ingram, "Anja Lacis", ch 4 in Ingram, Zarathustra's Sisters: Women's Autobiography and the Shaping of Cultural History, University of Toronto Press, 2002, pp 77-90. [1] (English)
• Sophie Pachner, ”Aber jeder bewahrte da seinen Namen“. Die Masse im Theater der zwanziger Jahre bei Asja Lacis und Bertolt Brecht, Vienna: Universität Wien, 2008, 122 pp. Master's thesis. (German)

See also

• Walter Benjamin

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asja_Lācis