Holger Berg

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Holger Berg (born March 21, 1950 in Aumühle ) is a German theater director .

Life

Holger Berg completed an apprenticeship as an actor and then worked from 1974 to 1978 as an assistant director at the Hamburg Thalia Theater in Hamburg. The first productions followed in Göttingen and Karlsruhe in the early 1980s .

His path continued via the Schauspielhaus Zurich to the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg , where he wrote The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht and Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? directed by Edward Albee , and at the Frankfurter Schauspielhaus, where he brought Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller , The Broken Jug by Heinrich von Kleist , The Park by Botho Strauss , Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller on stage. At the end of the 1980s, Berg went to the State Theater in Hanover and the Berlin Schiller Theater .

Berg was acting director at the Nuremberg State Theater from 1993 to 1999 . He also directed The Play about the Baby by Edward Albee at the Burgtheater in Vienna , The Prince of Homburg by Heinrich von Kleist at the Bad Hersfeld Festival Das Fest based on the film of the same name by Thomas Vinterberg , and The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare at the Braunschweig State Theater .

In the current season, Berg is among other things at the Altona Theater , where Alan Ayckbourn's comedy Double Doors premiered in January 2007 under his direction .

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