Hasko Weber (born 10 December 1963) is a German actor and

theatre director A theatre director or stage director is a professional in the theatre field who oversees and orchestrates the mounting of a theatre production such as a play, opera, dance, drama, musical theatre performance, etc. by unifying various endeavors a ...

Life

Weber was born in

Dresden Dresden (, ; Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; wen, label=Upper Sorbian, Drježdźany) is the capital city of the German state of Saxony and its second most populous city, after Leipzig. It is the 12th most populous city of Germany, the fourth larg ...

. After his

Abitur ''Abitur'' (), often shortened colloquially to ''Abi'', is a qualification granted at the end of secondary education in Germany. It is conferred on students who pass their final exams at the end of ISCED 3, usually after twelve or thirteen year ...

, he first did an apprenticeship as a machine and plant fitter and then trained as an actor from 1985 to 1989 at the

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 ...

and at the studio of the

Chemnitz Chemnitz (; from 1953 to 1990: Karl-Marx-Stadt , ) is the third-largest city in the German state of Saxony after Leipzig and Dresden. It is the 28th largest city of Germany as well as the fourth largest city in the area of former East Germany a ...

municipal theatre. In 1989 he received his first engagement there as an actor and director under

artistic director An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre or dance company, who handles the organization's artistic direction. They are generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the ...

Gerhard Meyer. In the same year, he founded the theatre group "Dramatische Brigade", an independently working group with links to the Schauspielhaus, where Weber gained his first experience as a director. In 1989, Weber was one of the organisers of the resistance against the

Council of Ministers of East Germany The Council of Ministers (German: ''Ministerrat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik'') was the cabinet and executive branch of the German Democratic Republic from November 1950 until the country was reunified on 3 October 1990.Starcevi, Nesha ( ...

at the Schauspiel Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz. After completing his studies, Weber first received a guest engagement as an actor at the

Staatsschauspiel Dresden The Staatsschauspiel Dresden (State Playhouse Dresden) is a theatre in Dresden. It is maintained by the Free State of Saxony, hence its name. It consists of a main auditorium, the ' (play house), and a studio theatre, the '. It was created in 19 ...

in 1990 and from the 1991/92 season was permanently engaged by artistic director Dieter Görne for the following two years at the same theatre as an actor with a directorship. From 1993 to 2001, he acted as theatre director at the Dresden Theatre. Since 1998, Weber has also made guest appearances at various theatres and continued his work as a freelance director after his time in Dresden. He has directed productions in

Karlsruhe Karlsruhe ( , , ; South Franconian: ''Kallsruh'') is the third-largest city of the German state (''Land'') of Baden-Württemberg after its capital of Stuttgart and Mannheim, and the 22nd-largest city in the nation, with 308,436 inhabitants. ...

Saarbrücken Saarbrücken (; french: link=no, Sarrebruck ; Rhine Franconian: ''Saarbrigge'' ; lb, Saarbrécken ; lat, Saravipons, lit=The Bridge(s) across the Saar river) is the capital and largest city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken is S ...

Mannheim Mannheim (; Palatine German: or ), officially the University City of Mannheim (german: Universitätsstadt Mannheim), is the second-largest city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg after the state capital of Stuttgart, and Germany's 2 ...

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

, the

Landestheater Tübingen Landestheater Tübingen is a theatre in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is known as 'LTT' for short , officially also 'Landestheater Württemberg-Hohenzollern Tübingen Reutlingen', is a cultural enterprise financed in Tübingen by public funds, ...

and at the

Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langhoff ...

. In 2002, Weber was appointed by artistic director Friedrich Schirmer to the

Staatstheater Stuttgart The Staatstheater Stuttgart (Stuttgart State Theatre) is a theatre with three locations, Oper Stuttgart (Opera Stuttgart), Stuttgarter Ballett (Stuttgart Ballet), and Schauspiel Stuttgart (Stuttgart Drama Theatre), in Stuttgart, Germany. The s ...

, where he became house director the following year. In the 2005/06 season, he succeeded Schirmer and took over as acting director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart. There, he directed the world premiere of ''Missions of Beauty'' by

Sibylle Berg Sibylle Berg (born 2 June 1962) is a Swiss contemporary author and playwright. They write novels, essays, short fiction, plays, radio plays, and columns. Their 15 books have been translated into 30 languages. They have won numerous awards, inclu ...

on 30 September 2010. He opened the renovated Schauspiel Stuttgart on 17 February 2012 with Schiller's ''

Don Karlos ''Don Carlos'' (german: Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien,Schiller replaced the Portuguese spelling "Dom" with the Spanish "Don" in 1801, after Christoph Martin Wieland had made him aware of the difference. ) is a (historical) tragedy in five acts ...

''. Since August 2013, Weber has been general director at the

Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar The (DNT) is a German theatre and musical organisation based in Weimar. It is a twin institution, consisting of the theatrical (German National Theatre, now solely based in Weimar) and the symphony orchestra known as the . It has a total of s ...

. He has also been chairman of the Intendantengruppe des Deutschen Bühnenvereins since 2016. In 2019, he commemorated the fall of the Berlin Wall 30 years ago with a temporary wall construction at the National Theatre in Weimar. In the art project Horizons, the Wall changes its appearance in 10 days through projections and thus becomes a sign of commonality between different people.Hasko Weber
on Berlinerfestspiele

Filmography

* 1990: ' * 1992: ''Wunderjahre'' * 2011: '' Wer wenn nicht wir'' * 2012: '' Tatort: Todesschütze'' (TV series)

Awards

Weber's production of

Henrik Ibsen Henrik Johan Ibsen (; ; 20 March 1828 – 23 May 1906) was a Norwegian playwright and theatre director. As one of the founders of modernism in theatre, Ibsen is often referred to as "the father of realism" and one of the most influential playw ...

's ''Brand'' won the in 2002, the

was named in 2006 under his directorship.

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Kurzbiographie beim Goethe-Institut

Kurzbiographie beim Staatstheater Stuttgart

Uraufführung ''Missionen der Schönheit''
Uraufführung ''Missionen der Schönheit'' *
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