(b. 1900 - d. 1950)
A songwriter who worked with Bertolt Brecht on making musicals (like The Seven Deadly Sins and The Threepenny Opera) in Germany, but separated due to Brecht's communist views, not to mention the Nazis bearing down on him as well. Weill then moved on to the United States, towards Broadway to write songs for musicals there as well.
Yes, some of his work was interpreted by one Ute Lemper as well.
The Kurt Weill Foundation -- http://www.kwf.org