BERLIN — When Shermin Langhoff took over the Maxim Gorki Theater, in 2013, she became not only the first female artistic director of a state theater here since the 1970s but the first of Turkish ...

Leftist theatre director Claus Peyman - a fixture of the postwar German stage - has died in Berlin at the age of 88, a former associate told dpa on Wednesday. Born in Bremen in 1937, Peymann was ...

On July 16, German theatre and artistic director Claus Peymann died at the age of 88. Rarely has the death of a theatre figure received so much attention in national politics, the cultural world and ...

BERLIN (AP) — A German theater company is ending a tour of China early after a theater canceled two showings of Henrik Ibsen’s “An Enemy of the People.” German authorities say they regret the ...

On May 15 the artistic director of Theater Aachen, Elena Tzavara, hosted a gala celebrating the theatre’s 200th anniversary. The event was well attended by theatre devotees, sponsors and personalities ...

After Germany was unified, we got Sturm, Drang, Weimar Classicism and Goethe. Theater had a slow start in Germany, mainly because Germany wasn't a thing until *relatively* recent times. After Germany ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - A Turkish-German actress will read out Norwegian mass-murderer Anders Behring Breivik's bizarre courtroom speech in German theatres next month in an effort to highlight the ...

Deputy Dr. Haupt, a Nazi Deputy for Hanover, speaking in the Prussian Parliament, accused the Jews of dominating the German theatre, film, radio and painting. The German stage has become a Jewish ...

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BERLIN — This year’s installment of Theatertreffen Berlin, the spring festival of the best of German-language theater that has been going strong since 1964, required some sitzfleisch — that is, the ...

Imogen Kogge to play German Chancellor Angela Merkel in 'Merkel,' a drama based on Robin Alexander's best-selling book that traces the steps that led to Merkel's decision in the summer of 2015 to open ...