Dietrich H. Litt

Dietrich H. Litt (* 1927 in Berlin ) is a German opera director .

As a child, Litt grew up with his grandparents, Anna and Hermann Litt , in Magdeburg and Berlin. In his youth he attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin-Wedding, where he studied in the same class as the later film director Egon Monk .

From 1950 Litt worked on a total of 101 opera productions in theaters and opera houses in the GDR , the last time in the 1976/77 season at what was then the Cottbus City Theater . Earlier places of professional activity were Magdeburg , Stendal , Neustrelitz , Schwerin and Radebeul . Litt has long been considered a specialist in the interpretation of Georg Philipp Telemann's operas . After finishing his theater career, Litt worked at the directorate for theater and orchestra at the Ministry of Culture of the GDR until the institution was dissolved in 1990 .

From 1946 to 1990 Litt was a member of the CDU (East) and since 1972 a member of the party's main executive committee.

Fonts

• Dietrich Litt: Theater for the youth - together with the youth . In: Secretariat of the main board of the CDU (ed.): Order and responsibility of the artist in the developed socialist society . Report on the meeting of the presidium of the main board of the CDU with artists on November 23, 1973 in Burgscheidungen. [Berlin] 1974, p. 76 f .

literature

• Birgit Do it. In the spotlight. 100 years of theater at Schillerplatz in Cottbus. Cottbus 2008, pp. 67-77.
• Christa Johannsen. From choirboy to senior director. Conversation with Union friend Dietrich Litt. Neue Zeit May 29, 1960, vol. 16, issue 119, p. 6.

Individual evidence

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