Hans Lietzau was a German theatre director, actor

Actor

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, and producer. He was born in Berlin, Germany. In 1953 he directed Friedrich Schiller

Friedrich Schiller

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller was a German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright. During the last seventeen years of his life , Schiller struck up a productive, if complicated, friendship with already famous and influential Johann Wolfgang von Goethe...

's The Robbers, with Ernst Schröder

Ernst Schröder (actor)

Ernst Schröder was a popular German theatre, film and TV actor.-Life:Born in Herne, Schröder began his acting career at the nearby Bochum Theatre in 1934, under the legendary director Saladin Schmitt. He worked there until 1936, also working as Assistant Director and Stage Designer...

 as Karl Moor. From 1969 to 1970 he was the theatre manager of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus

Deutsches Schauspielhaus

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 in Hamburg

Hamburg

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. He directed the German première of the French dramatist Jean Genet

Jean Genet

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's play The Balcony

The Balcony

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in 1959 and the world première of his play The Screens

The Screens

The Screens is a play by the French dramatist Jean Genet. Its first few productions all used abridged versions, beginning with its world premiere under Hans Lietzau's direction in Berlin in May 1961...

in 1961, both of which played at the Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin

Berlin

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.

Sources

• Dichy, Albert. 1993. "Chronology." In White (1993, xiii-xxxv).
• Savona, Jeannette L. 1983. Jean Genet. Grove Press Modern Dramatists ser. New York: Grove P. ISBN 0394620453.
• White, Edmund
  Edmund White
  Edmund Valentine White III is an American author and literary critic. He is a member of the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.- Life and work :...
  
  . 1993. Genet. Corrected edition. London: Picador, 1994. ISBN 0330306227.