Gerd Heinz

Gerd Heinz (born September 21, 1940 in Aachen ) is a German actor and director .

education

Born in Aachen, he attended the Kaiser-Karls-Gymnasium and founded the theater company The Stage there . He then studied German , philosophy and art history at the University of Cologne . Parallel to his studies, he began training as an actor and director at the Theater der Keller at the Cologne Drama School .

After several engagements , he became acting director and deputy artistic director at the Darmstadt State Theater in 1970 . In 1973 he moved to the Hamburg Thalia Theater under the direction of Boy Gobert . After various other directorial work, he was appointed director of the Schauspielhaus Zürich in 1982 , where he worked for seven years. In 1997 he was appointed professor at the Freiburg University of Music , after having worked frequently as an opera director in previous years. After giving up this position in 2008, he returned to working as a freelance director in the following years. As such, Heinz took on the staging of the drama The Ignorant and the Insane with Sven-Eric Bechtolf in the lead role for the Salzburg Festival in 2016 and the opera Die Walküre for the Minden City Theater as part of the Mindener Ring .

In the meantime he works regularly as an actor for film and television.

In 2008 he was awarded the ETA Hoffmann Kreisler Prize .

Ute Kröger: Gerd Heinz . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz . Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 817 f.
Gerd Heinz , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/2010 of February 9, 2010, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

personal data
SURNAME	Heinz, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German theater director and actor
DATE OF BIRTH	September 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH	Aachen