At the age of 88, German theater director Claus Peyman died on Wednesday. He worked mainly with German -speaking authors, such as Thomas Bernhard and Thomas Brasch, Bothho Strauß, Peter Turrini, Peter Handke, George Tabori or Elfriede Jelinek, said DPA on Thursday night, TASR writes.
He was born in 1937 in Bremen and, and 1997 – 2017, he was the artistic director of the German Theater Society Berliner Ensamble. He contributed significantly to the theater in the country as the director or executive director of the leading scenes.
After working in the theaters in Stuttgart, Bochum and Vienna, he went to Berlin in 1999. With his activist tendencies, Peymann considered himself a “thorn in the power of the powerful”.
On the front pages of the newspaper, Peymann also got outside the theater scene thanks to political statements and various controversial acts, writes DPA. He was sharply criticized when he offered a former terrorist of the Red Army Fraction (RAF) in 2008 to Christian Klara in his theater.
He had previously caused controversy by expressing solidarity with the Austrian playwright Handke, whom he criticized at the end of the 1990s for the support of the then Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic and Serbian nationalists.
