- Wolfgang Langhoff
.] was a German theatre, film and television actor and theatre director.
As an actor
Langhoff played Eilif in the first production of
Bertolt Brecht 's "Mother Courage and Her Children ", which opened at theSchauspielhaus Zürich on the 19th April, 1941. He also performed in the first production of Brecht's "Life of Galileo ", which also opened at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, on the 9th September, 1943.Willett, John. 1959. "The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects." London: Methuen. ISBN 0413 34360 X. p.47, 48.]He played Ernst Mehlin in
Konrad Wolf 's film "Genesung" (1956), von Geir inNikola Korabov 's "Tyutyun" (1962), and Professor Holt inJoachim Kunert 's "Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt" (1965); he also appeared inKurt Maetzig andGünter Reisch 's "Das Lied der Matrosen" (1958). On television, he appeared inHans-Joachim Kasprzik 's mini-series "Wolf unter Wölfen" (1964).As a director
It is on the strength of his productions of classical texts at the
Deutsches Theater in Berlin, a theatre which he led from 1946 to 1963, that Langhoff's fame as a director rests. His notable productions there include: Goethe's "Faust" (1949 and 1954, productions in which he also played Mephisto) and "Egmont" (1951), Schiller's "Don Carlos" (1952), Shakespeare's "King Lear " (1957) and Lessing's "Minna of Barnhelm" (1960).This article's description of Langhoff's directing career is taken from [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Langhoff#Langhoff_als_Regisseur a section of the equivalent German-language Wikipedia article] (retrieved 17 August 2007).]ee also
* [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Langhoff The German-language Wikipedia Article on Wolfgang Langhoff]
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