Asja Lacis

Asja Lācis (Latvian: Anna Lāce; 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

• Revolutionäres Theater in Deutschland, Moscow, 1935.
• 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)
• Die rote Nelke, 1981. Autobiography. (German)
• Krasnaia gvozdika. Vospominaniia [Красная гвоздика: воспоминания], Riga: Liesma, 1984. Memoirs. (Russian)

Literature

• Heinz-Uwe Haus, "In memoriam Asja Lacis (19. Oktober 1891–21. November 1979)", in Brecht, Women and Politics, eds. John Fuegi, Gisela Bahr, and John Willett, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1985, pp 138-147. (English)
• 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)
• Beata Paskevica, In der Stadt der Parolen. Asja Lacis, Walter Benjamin und Bertolt Brecht, Essen: Klartext, 2006, 336 pp. (German)
• 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://www.scheinschlag.de/archiv/2001/09_2001/texte/28.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asja_Lācis