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. She has performed all over the world for the past forty years. May was one of the leading artists in the former DDR from the early fifties onward.

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  • 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. She has performed all over the world for the past forty years. 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. 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].
  • Gisela May ist eine deutsche Schauspielerin und Diseuse, die sich vor allem als Brechtinterpretin einen Namen machte.
  • Gisela May nacida el 31 de mayo de 1924 en Wetzlar, Alemania es una de las mas destacadas actrices del teatro alemán contemporáneo, desarrolló el núcleo de su carrera en la RDA y se especializó en la obra de Bertolt Brecht y la canciones de su época. Considerada junto a Lotte Lenya, una de las intérpretes definitivas de Kurt Weill, Hanns Eisler y contemporáneos recibió, entre otras distinciones, el Grand-Prix du Disque International en 1968, el Deutscher Kleinkunstpreis en 1987 y la "Estrella de la Sátira" del archivo del cabaret alemán de Mainz en 2005 En 2004 fue condecorada con la máxima distinción civil otorgada por Alemania, la Bundesverdienstkreuz (Gran Orden al Mérito de Alemania).
  • Gisela May (s. 1924) oli etenkin silloisessa Itä-Saksassa Bertolt Brechtin tekstien tunnustetuimpia tulkkeja. Hän esiintyi myös useissa elokuvissa vuosien 1951 ja 1991 välillä.
  • Gisela May, född 31 maj 1924, tysk sångerska och skådespelerska. Främst känd som uttolkare av tyska kabarésånger av bl.a. Bertholt Brecht.
  • Gisela May, Alman, oyuncu ve müzisyen.
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  • 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. She has performed all over the world for the past forty years. May was one of the leading artists in the former DDR from the early fifties onward.
  • Gisela May ist eine deutsche Schauspielerin und Diseuse, die sich vor allem als Brechtinterpretin einen Namen machte.
  • Gisela May nacida el 31 de mayo de 1924 en Wetzlar, Alemania es una de las mas destacadas actrices del teatro alemán contemporáneo, desarrolló el núcleo de su carrera en la RDA y se especializó en la obra de Bertolt Brecht y la canciones de su época.
  • Gisela May (s. 1924) oli etenkin silloisessa Itä-Saksassa Bertolt Brechtin tekstien tunnustetuimpia tulkkeja. Hän esiintyi myös useissa elokuvissa vuosien 1951 ja 1991 välillä.
  • Gisela May, född 31 maj 1924, tysk sångerska och skådespelerska. Främst känd som uttolkare av tyska kabarésånger av bl.a. Bertholt Brecht.
  • Gisela May, Alman, oyuncu ve müzisyen.
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