Leftist theatre director Claus Peyman - a fixture of the postwar German stage - has died in Berlin at the age of 88, a former associate told dpa on Wednesday. Born in Bremen in 1937, Peymann was ...
His avant-garde work, short on character and plot but long on verbal high jinks, could be irreverent, even goofy, but it was always intellectually serious. By A.J. Goldmann A.J. Goldmann is an ...
On July 16, German theatre and artistic director Claus Peymann died at the age of 88. Rarely has the death of a theatre figure received so much attention in national politics, the cultural world and ...
Brunhilde Pomsel's life spanned the twentieth century. She struggled to make ends meet as a secretary in Berlin during the 1930s, her many employers including a Jewish insurance broker, the German ...
On May 15 the artistic director of Theater Aachen, Elena Tzavara, hosted a gala celebrating the theatre’s 200th anniversary. The event was well attended by theatre devotees, sponsors and personalities ...
But she has also challenged the notion of integration as it is propagated by German politics. In 2016, the theater created the Exil-Ensemble as a platform for professional actors forced to live in ...
From plays to musicals, operas to operettas, and everything in between, the genres of theater can get confusing, and the criteria of what makes each different can be unclear. Shakespeare famously ...
In ancient Greece, theater served as political discourse—and in fact, attending theatrical performances was considered a civic duty. Sophocles’ “Antigone” was a rallying cry against state authority: ...