Elisabeth Hauptmann (born June 20, 1897 in Peckelsheim, Westphalia; died April 20, 1973 in East Berlin) was a German writer, who worked together with Bertolt Brecht. June 20 is the 171st day of the year (172nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 194 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Westphalia (German: Westfalen) is a region in Germany, centred on the cities of Dortmund, Gelsenkirchen, Münster, Bielefeld, and Osnabrück and included in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony. ... Jump to: navigation, search April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. ... Jump to: navigation, search Berlin ▶(?), IPA: , is the capital of Germany and its largest city; the city is now home to 3. ... Jump to: navigation, search Bertolt Brecht (February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. ...

She got to know Brecht in 1922, the same year she came to Berlin. She began collaborating with him in 1924; she is listed as a co-author of The Threepenny Opera She was in exile in the United States from 1934 to 1949; she married Paul Dessau in 1943. After Brecht's death in 1956, she published works of his at the Suhrkamp Verlag, a German publishing house, and worked as a dramaturg for the the Berlin Ensemble. In 1977, a collection of her works was published under the name Julia ohne Romeo (Julia without Romeo). Jump to: navigation, search 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) was a revolutionary piece of musical theatre written (in German) by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill in 1928. ... Exile is a form of punishment. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1934 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1943 is a common year starting on Friday. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Dramaturg is a position in the theater which gained its modern-day function through the innovations of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, a playwright and theater practitioner who worked in Germany in the 18th century. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1977 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1977 calendar). ...

In 1961, she received the Lessing Award, which the Ministry for Culture of East Germany awarded every year. Jump to: navigation, search 1961 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...