Karlheinz Liefers

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Karlheinz Liefers in a radio play production in the early 1990s

Karlheinz Liefers (born August 6, 1941 in Döbeln , Saxony , † January 21, 2006 in Berlin ) was a German director .

Life

Karlheinz Liefers came from a theater family. His father was the actor Heinz Liefers . He began his acting career . He was assistant director at the Berliner Volksbühne with Benno Besson , Matthias Langhoff and Manfred Karge, among others . He later worked as a director at various theaters, including in Tübingen, Dresden, Cottbus, Frankfurt (Oder) and Schleswig. From 1996 to 2000 he was acting director at the Thuringian State Theater in Rudolstadt .

Liefers was best known for his radio play productions , which were honored with awards and which he ran intensively from 1984 until his death in 2006. In addition to his radio plays, Liefers continued to work as a director for the theater. At the Uckermärkische Bühnen Schwedt he staged the witch hunt (2002), Ladies Night (2003) and for the open-air theater Ritter Runkel's big hour (2004).

Grave of Lisbeth and Karlheinz Liefers

Liefers' radio play production of the Volker Braun play Iphigenie in Freiheit was voted radio play of the month in September 1991 and awarded by the Berlin Academy of the Arts. He was twice honored with the German Children's Radio Play Prize.

He is the father of the actor and musician Jan Josef Liefers and the stepfather of the actor Martin Brambach . Karlheinz Liefers died in 2006 at the age of 64. He was buried in the Karlshorster and Neue Friedrichsfelder Friedhof in Berlin-Karlshorst .

Filmography

Radio plays

Web links

Commons : Karlheinz Liefers  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Director Karlheinz Liefers has died. Berliner Zeitung , October 27, 2006, archived from the original on March 20, 2012 ; accessed on October 3, 2016 .
  2. ^ Frank Olbert: Theater, radio play and children's play: To the death of Karlheinz Liefers . Interview with Gabriele Bigott on Deutschlandfunk , February 11, 2006, accessed on October 3, 2016.