Thomas Langhoff

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Thomas Langhoff (* 8. April 1938 in Zurich ; † 18 February 2012 in Berlin ) was a German theater director , actor and - director , who until reunification in the GDR lived.

Life

Thomas Langhoff was born as the son of the German director Wolfgang Langhoff and his wife Renate during their time in exile in Switzerland . After the Second World War, the Langhoff family returned to Germany. Thomas Langhoff lived in Berlin from 1948. After graduating from Paul-Oestreich-Schule in Berlin-Weißensee (today Primo-Levi-Gymnasium ) Langhoff first became an actor. He studied at the Leipzig Theater Academy . As an actor he was engaged at the Hans Otto Theater in Potsdam between 1963 and 1971 and then went to GDR television. In 1977 he staged " Einsame Menschen " at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin, where he became one of the most important directors in German-language theater. Thomas Langhoff is the father of the director Lukas Langhoff and the actor Tobias Langhoff , as well as the brother of the director Matthias Langhoff , whose daughter, the author Anna Langhoff , is thus his niece.

Since 1980 Langhoff has worked on all major German-speaking theaters, including in the West. After the fall of the Wall in the GDR and reunification, he took over the Deutsches Theater in Berlin as artistic director in 1991, which was voted Theater of the Year by German critics after its first season under his leadership. Langhoff remained artistic director until his contract expired in 2001. When in 1999 he ultimately asked the Berlin Senator for Culture Peter Radunski to make a statement as to whether his contract would be extended, Radunski rejected him. During the ten years of his directorship, Langhoff gave the young German theater a place in the so-called barracks . Thomas Ostermeier was allowed to try himself out here and switched from the barracks directly to the management of the Berlin Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz .

Langhoff then worked as a freelance director. At the end of 2007 Langhoff staged in place of Andrea Breth , who was originally commissioned with the project, at the Vienna Burgtheater Wallenstein . His last production, The Cherry Orchard by Chekhov , saw its premiere in October 2011 at the Berliner Ensemble .

tomb

He is buried in the cemetery of the Dorotheenstadt and Friedrichswerder communities in Berlin-Mitte.

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Important productions

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Filmography (selection)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The large artistic carousel. focus.de, June 7, 1999, accessed on May 16, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Theater director Thomas Langhoff has died. focus.de, February 18, 2012, accessed on May 16, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Langhoff, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater director and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH February 18, 2012
Place of death Berlin , Germany