question:  Die Mutter is an East German film adopted from a play by a poet who was married to which actress ?
answer: Helene Weigel
context: Title: Heart of Stone (1950 film)
  Passage: Heart of Stone (German: "Das kalte Herz" ) is an East German fantasy film directed by Paul Verhoeven.  The first East German film made in Agfacolor, it was released in 1950.
  Title: Bertolt Brecht
  Passage: Eugen Berthold Friedrich "Bertolt" Brecht ( ; ] ; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, and theatre director of the 20th century.  He made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical production, the latter through the tours undertaken by the Berliner Ensemble – the post-war theatre company operated by Brecht and his wife, long-time collaborator and actress Helene Weigel.
  Title: The Turning Point (1983 film)
  Passage: The Turning Point (also screened with the English name "Held for Questioning"; German: "Der Aufenthalt" ) is a 1983 East German film directed by Frank Beyer and starring Sylvester Groth, Fred Düren and Klaus Piontek.  The film is based on the 1977 novel of the same name by Hermann Kant, which was based on Kant's own experience as a prisoner of war in Poland.  The film tells the story of a German prisoner of war at the end of World War II who is wrongly accused of being a war criminal.  The film was controversial upon release as Polish commentators criticized that the film showed the Polish army wrongly accusing someone of war crimes.  Nevertheless, the film was successful and won several awards and was the East German official submission to the 56th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film.
  Title: When the Mother and the Daughter
  Passage: When the Mother and the Daughter (German: Wenn die Mutter und die Tochter...) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Carl Boese and starring  Fritz Spira, Trude Hesterberg and Vera Schmiterlöw.
  Title: Coming Out (1989 film)
  Passage: Coming Out is a 1989 East German film directed by Heiner Carow and written by Wolfram Witt which deals with the lead character, a high school teacher, "coming out" and accepting himself as gay.  It was one the last films made by DEFA, the East German state film studio, and the only one it made that dealt with issues around homosexuality.
  Title: Die Mutter
  Passage: Die Mutter is an East German film.  It was released in 1958.  It is an adaptation of a play by Bertolt Brecht, which in itself is based on a novel by Maxim Gorky.
  Title: Frank Beyer
  Passage: Frank Paul Beyer (26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director.  In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany.  His film "Trace of Stones" was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED.  His 1975 film "Jacob the Liar" was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award.  After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 until his death he mostly directed television films.
  Title: Mother Courage and Her Children
  Passage: Mother Courage and Her Children (German: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ) is a play written in 1939 by the German dramatist and poet Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956), with significant contributions from Margarete Steffin.  Four theatrical productions were produced in Switzerland and Germany from 1941 to 1952, the last three supervised and/or directed by Brecht, who had returned to East Germany from the United States.  Several years after Brecht's death in 1959/1960, the play was adapted as a German film starring Helene Weigel, Brecht's widow and a leading actress.
  Title: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
  Passage: The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler is a 2009 television film directed by John Kent Harrison.  The film is a co-production between American and Polish companies.  The teleplay by Harrison and Lawrence John Spagnola, based on the 2007 biography 'Die Mutter der Holocaust-Kinder: Irena Sendler und die geretteten Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto' (DVA Dt.Verlags-Anstalt, ISBN  / English translation 2010: "The Mother of the Holocaust Children" by Anna Mieszkowska), focuses on Irena Sendler, a Polish social worker who smuggled approximately 2,500 Jewish children to safety during World War II.
  Title: Konrad Wolf Prize
  Passage: The Konrad Wolf Prize (German: "Konrad-Wolf-Preis" ) is a German performing arts, new media art and film award given since 1986 by the Academy of Arts, Berlin (formerly the East German Academy of Arts).  It is named after the East German film director and former president of the Academy, Konrad Wolf.  The prize is awarded annually, alternating between the Academy's Performing Arts Section and its Film and Media Art Section, and comes with a 5,000 Euros purse.
citations: Bertolt Brecht Die Mutter