Thorsten Weckherlin
Thorsten Weckherlin (* 1962 in Hamburg ) is a German theater director and artistic director at the State Theater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen .
He studied literature and history in Hamburg. At the age of twenty he started working for the theater - as a "theater critic" . In 1993 he was Regiehospitant of Peter Zadek at the Berliner Ensemble . A year later he built the Berliner Ensemble touring theater .
First productions and free theater work in the new federal states followed, from 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the management team at the Schauspiel Leipzig . In 2002 Weckherlin produced Mozart's opera " Die Entführung aus dem Serail " in Berlin, directed by old master George Tabori , which was shown in a church, a synagogue and a Muslim prayer house. Weckherlin also worked here as an assistant director.
From September 2002 he was a member of the management team at the Freiburg Theater and was responsible for marketing . In January 2004 Weckherlin became the artistic director at the Landestheater Burghofbühne in Dinslaken . Since the beginning of the 2014–2015 season, he has taken over the management of the State Theater in Tübingen (LTT) .
Thorsten Weckherlin is married and has two children.
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| SURNAME | Weckherlin, Thorsten |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg |