Herbert Fritsch
Herbert Fritsch was born in Augsburg in 1951. He trained as an actor at Munich’s Otto-Falckenberg-Schule and worked at various renowned theatres in Germany and abroad. He is one of Frank Castorf’s regular actors and was a member of the Volksbühne’s acting company from the early 1990s to 2007. Since the year 2000, all of his work has been leading to the intermedia art project hamlet_X, which manifests in nearly all media and forms of artistic expression. Within the project, Herbert Fritsch is involved as actor, film and theatre director, author, performer, photographer and illustrator.
Since leaving the Volksbühne, Herbert Fritsch has been directing at numerous German-language theatres: Neues Theater Halle, Theater Oberhausen, Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Schauspiel Leipzig, Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Berlin), Bremer Theater, Thalia Theater (Hamburg), Schauspiel Köln, Residenztheater München, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Opernhaus Zürich.
In 2017, Herbert Fritsch’s “Pfusch (Botch)” at Berlin’s Volksbühne is his seventh production to be presented at the Theatertreffen.
As of April 2017

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Past Events
The 10 Selected Productions
Pfusch (Botch)
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
Theatre Prize Berlin by Preußische Seehandlung Foundation
Awarding to Herbert Fritsch
Focus Sculpture / Performance / Acting
Introductory presentation I / Wovon wir sprechen, wenn wir vom Schauspielen sprechen
The 10 Selected Production
der die mann
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
The 10 Selected Productions
Ohne Titel Nr. 1 // Eine Oper von Herbert Fritsch (Untitled No. 1 // An Opera by Herbert Fritsch)
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
The 10 Selected Productions
Murmel Murmel
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
The 10 Selected Productions
Spanish Fly
Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Berlin
The 10 Selected Productions
Nora oder Ein Puppenhaus [A Doll’s House]
Theater Oberhausen
The 10 Selected Productions