Gisela May

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Gisela May was 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. Gisela May was born in 1924, and 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. 'Die 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. 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].