Theaterhochschule Leipzig
The Theaterhochschule Leipzig was a theatre school in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1953 to 1992. The official name was Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig.
History
The Theaterhochschule Leipzig was founded on 1 November 1953 as a merger of two institutions, the in Weimar and the Theaterschule Leipzig. From the late 1960s, Bertolt Brecht was a teacher. In 1967 it was named after the actor whom the Nazis had murdered in 1933. The Hochschule was located at the Villa Sieskind in the Musikviertel and buildings in the neighbourhood.The institution was dissolved per the Sächsisches Hochschulstrukturgesetz on 10 April 1992. The acting department became a faculty of the Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy", while theatre studies formed a new institute of the Leipzig University.
Alumni
- Eberhard Esche, actor
- Jürgen Holtz, actor on stage and in film, artist and author
- Julia Jäger, actress
- Sonja Kehler, actress and chanson singer
- Volkmar Kleinert, actor, recitator
- Harry Kupfer, opera director, recipient of the National Prize of the GDR
- Ute Lubosch, actress, stage director
- Hans-Peter Minetti, actor
- Ulrich Mühe, actor in film and theatre, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
- Günther Rücker, writer, playwright, film director, recipient of the National Prize of the GDR
- Jörg Schüttauf, actor, recipient of the Grimme-Preis
- Peter Sodann, actor, stage director, intendant
- Carina Wiese, actress
- Monika Woytowicz, actress
Literature
- Gerhard Neubauer : Hochschule für Musik und Theater „Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy“, Leipzig 2003.