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          Anna "Asja" Lācis was a Latvian actress and theatre director....

          Lacis, Asja (1891–1979)

          Latvian stage director, actress and author who played a crucial role in introducing the work of Bertolt Brecht to the Soviet stage, wrote the first history of the theater of the Weimar Republic, and was a major influence on the intellectual evolution of the literary critic Walter Benjamin. Name variations: Anna Lacis; Asja Lazis.

          Latvian actor and theatre director (–).

        1. Lācis spent the years between Riga, Berlin and Moscow.
        2. Anna "Asja" Lācis was a Latvian actress and theatre director.
        3. Summary.
        4. Lācis; Asja Liepiņa; Anna Lācis; Asja Lacis.

          5. Born Anna Ernestovna Lacis in Ligatne, Riga District, Russia, on October 19, 1891; died in Riga, Latvia, on November 21, 1979; married Julij Lacis; married Bernhard Reich; children: (second marriage) daughter, Daga Reich.

          Unlike many Communist intellectuals and artists who grew up in comfortable circumstances, Latvian theater personality Asja Lacis came from a proletarian background.

          She was born in 1891 into a working-class family, with a father who made a precarious living as a harness maker and tailor. He was, however, an unusually progressive man for his background and level of education, and with his encouragement Asja