Hiob was born on 12 March 1920 as Hanne Marianne Brecht in Munich, the daughter of the writer Bertolt Brecht and his then wife, the opera singer and actress Marianne Zoff.
[5] Hanne Brecht studied dance at the Vienna State Opera.
[5] Among other parts, she played the leading role in Brecht's Señora Carrar's Rifles and in 1959 in Saint Joan of the Stockyards under the direction of Gustaf Gründgens.
[1] She retired from the stage in 1976 but remained active reading Brecht works and participating in street theater projects such as the Anachronistic Train.
[1][5] Hiob got involved in pacifism,[1] and received the Aachen Peace Prize in 2005.