Gerhard Klingenberg
Former Burgtheater director (95) dies
Director and Burgtheater director Gerhard Klingenberg has died at the age of 95.
Gerhard Klingenberg, born Gerhard Schwabenitzky in Vienna, completed his acting training at the Conservatory of the City of Vienna. He first appeared as a guest on the stage of the Vienna Burgtheater in 1947. He made his directorial debut in 1948 at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.
Klingenberg's engagements took him to St. Pölten and Innsbruck before he became known as a director at the Deutsches Theater in East Berlin, the Schauspielhaus Hamburg and in Düsseldorf and Cologne. From 1968 to 1985, he worked at the Burgtheater in Vienna, where he also served as director from 1971 to 1976. After his time in Vienna, he managed the Zurich Schauspielhaus from 1977 to 1982.
In 1998, he published his memoirs "Kein Blatt vor dem Mund" and in 2003 "Das gefesselte Burgtheater. 1776 to the present day". Klingenberg directed 23 television plays and two feature films, worked as a screenwriter, actor and Shakespeare translator and taught as an external lecturer at the Institute for Theater Studies at the University of Vienna.
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