Gabriele Gysi

Gabriele Gysi is a German actress and director.

Life

Gysi was born in Berlin as the daughter of the politicians Irene and Klaus Gysi and is the older sister of Linkspartei politician and lawyer Gregor Gysi.
On her father's side, she comes from a Berlin family whose progenitor, the silk dyer Samuel Gysin, in the early 18th century from Läufelfingen at the Volksbühne Berlin, but also at other theaters. She directed at the Theater Karl-Marx-Stadt, the Volkstheater Rostock and the Compagnie de Comédie Rostock.
From 1973 to 1981, she also took part in several radio plays on GDR radio as a narrator.
In 1984, she left the GDR. From 2007 to 2008 she was chief dramaturge of the Volksbühne Berlin.
Gysi lives in Berlin-Johannisthal.

Director

1999: "Wars of the Roses 1-8" : "2. Henry IV, 1 - The Wage Laborers" at the Volksbühne Berlin in the Prater, Berlin
2011: "The Fever" at the Euro Theater Central Bonn

Actress

1969: Aeschylus: Seven against Thebes - Director: Manfred Karge/Matthias Langhoff
1971: Heiner Müller: Weiberkomödie - Director: Fritz Marquardt
1974: Christoph Hein: Schlötel oder Was solls - Director: Manfred Karge/Matthias Langhoff
1980: Euripides: Die Frauen von Troja - Director: Berndt Renne
1981: Carl Sternheim: Die Schule von Uznach - Director: Gertrud-Elisabeth Zillmer
1984: Paul Gratzik: Die Axt im Haus - Director: Harald Warmbrunn

as editor: Der Fall Ulrike Guérot. Attempts at a public execution. Westend Verlag, Frankfurt a. M. 2024, ISBN 978-3-864894503.
with Gregor Gysi: Unser Vater. A Conversation Aufbau, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03842-7.