1997 - ACTRESS HIOB DIES

ACTRESS HIOB DIES

German actress HANNE HIOB has died, aged 86.
Hiob - daughter of director/playwright Bertolt Brecht and opera singer Marianne Zoff - died on Tuesday (23Jun09) in Munich. No cause of death was given.
After studying dance at the Vienna opera house in Austria, Hiob began working as a dancer and actress, and went on to perform at theatres in West and East Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
She played title roles in her father's plays Saint Joan of the Stockyards and Senora Carrar's Rifles, among other parts. After retiring from the theatre in 1976, Hiob went on to star in a handful of films, including 1981 movie Regentropfen (Rain Drop), 1983's Die Letzte Runde (The Last Round), and 1997's Hundert Jahre Brecht (A Hundred Years of Brecht).
No further information on Hiob's death was available as WENN went to press.