Angelika Hurwicz

Angelika Hurwicz (22 April 1922, Berlin – 26 November 1999, Bergen) was a German actress and theatre director.

[1] Hurwicz acted in a number of Brecht's plays, including the career-transforming Mother Courage and Her Children, in which she had the role of Kattrin.

At the time, Hurwicz's casting in lead role was remarked on by theatre critics such as Kenneth Tynan because of her physical appearance that, on the London stage, would have relegated her to comedic relief.

In his review of The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Tynan wrote that, "Angelika Hurwicz is a lumpy girl with a face as round as an apple: our theatre would cast her, if at all, as a fat comic maid.

"[3] Hurwicz was a lesbian and lived with her long-term partner, the photographer Gerda Goedhart; at one point, she commented on Brecht's inability to deal openly with homosexuality.