Piet Drescher

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Piet Drescher (* 1940 in Berlin ) is a German actor and director .

Life

Piet Drescher attended the State Drama School in Berlin from 1960 to 1962 and then worked as an actor, assistant and beginner director at the theaters in Stendal , Gera and Parchim . From 1967 to 1971, under the direction of Helene Weigel at the Berliner Ensemble , as a student of Manfred Wekwerth , he received an aspirantate to direct. At the same time he worked as a lecturer at the State Drama School in Berlin and in 1971 went to the Schauspielhaus Karl-Marx-Stadt with almost a complete group of graduates . With this legendary ensemble he celebrated great successes as a director, especially with the listed classics. From 1979 he worked freelance in Berlin at the Berliner Ensemble, Maxim-Gorki-Theater and the Deutsches Theater . In 1983 Piet Drescher became senior theater director at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam and from 1985 he was also permanently engaged at the Dresden theater.

In 1986 Piet Drescher left the GDR to take on new tasks at the Schauspiel Köln and from 1989 at the Volkstheater Vienna . In 1991 he returned to Berlin and resumed teaching at the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts, from 1995 to 2006 as a full professor.

Guest work took him to Zurich (Neumarkt). St. Gallen , Bern , Bonn , Bremen , to the Renaissance Theater Berlin and to Baden-Baden . He staged several plays for television.

Piet Drescher is an academy member of the Vienna Nestroy Theater Prize .

Filmography

theatre

Own works

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Neues Deutschland from January 19, 1965, p. 4
  2. ↑ Neue Zeit of May 27, 1967, p. 8
  3. ↑ Berliner Zeitung of July 3, 1970, p. 6
  4. ^ New Germany of October 5, 1972
personal data
SURNAME Drescher, Piet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin