Marianne Zoff

Marianne Josephine Zoff (* June 30, 1893 in Grove Field, † November 22, 1984 in Vienna) was an Austrian actress and opera singer.

Life

Marianne Zoff was the daughter of the future State Railroad Inspector Andreas Otto Zoff and Zdenka born Jellinek. She was the first wife of Bertolt Brecht, with whom she was married on November 3, 1922 to November 22, 1927. On March 12, 1923, the daughter Hanne Marianne was born.

1928 married Marianne Zoff second husband, the actor Theo Lingen. The daughter from his first marriage grew up with Marianne Zoff and Theo Lingen and celebrated later under her married name Hannah Job success as a stage actress. The popularity Lingens, who played since the beginning of the Nazi regime mainly comic roles in which he liked Joseph Goebbels, protected Marianne Zoff, which was regarded as half-Jewish according to the then prevailing racial laws, and their daughters Hannah and Ursula from the persecution of the Nazis. Originally from the marriage of daughter Ursula Lingen Lingen Zoff and is also active as an actress.