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Margarete Emilie Charlotte Steffin 21 March — 4 June was a German actress and writer, one of Bertold Brecht 's closest collaborators, as well as a prolific translator from Russian and Scandinavian languages.

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Born to a proletarian family, at the age of fourteen she went to work for the phone company but her interest in Social Democratic politics got her fired. She worked in publishing and agitprop theatre , and became secretary of the party's [ which? In , she took a diction class from Brecht's wife Helene Weigel and became his lover. She was introduced to the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm , playing a maid in Die Mutter In , Brecht and Weigel went into exile in Denmark.

Though soon replaced as Brecht's lover by Ruth Berlau , Steffin entered an arranged marriage to a Danish citizen to stay as Brecht's secretary and followed the Brechts to Finland and Moscow when war broke out. She died from tuberculosis diagnosed already in while awaiting an American visa. Brecht wrote six short poems on hearing of her death, eventually published together as Nach dem Tod meiner Mitarbeiterin M.

The second reads:. My general is fallen My soldier is fallen My pupil has left My teacher has left My nurse is gone My nursling is gone. Steffin also corresponded with Walter Benjamin and Arnold Zweig. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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