Important theater productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1973 - 10 Pfennig

Significant theatrical productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes three special postage stamps with illustrations from major theatrical productions by Bertolt Brecht, Walter Felsenstein and Wolfgang Langhoff. Important theatrical productions in the German Democratic Republic Brecht, Felsenstein and Langhoff are among the personalities who have in many ways revolutionized German theater. They are three of the "first hour" and have dedicated their artistic work to the political and cultural renewal of life in Germany since 1945. At various sites they have in their work as a theater director, playwright, director and actor the socialist theater in the German Democratic Republic Last but not least, they have helped the theater of the GDR to gain international recognition with numerous guest appearances by their ensembles around the world. "10-pfennig value: Wolfgang Langhoff (1901-1966) Wolfgang Langhoff took over the German Theater after 1945 It was a matter of preserving traditions as they were associated with the names of Otto Brahm and Max Reinhardt, and at the same time tracing what began to emerge as a new, socialist theatrical tradition, which Langhoff succeeded above all during his seventeen-year-old age Acting as intenda nt, to make the German theater a place of exemplary hereditary reception. With his classic productions, he set standards in the appropriation of the classical heritage, which were based not on actualization but on fidelity to the work. Contrary to the most common interpretations of the bourgeois theater, Langhoff did not stage Shakespeare's "King Lear" as a tragedy of old age. Instead, he put the accent on the disintegration of the empire, which had once been held together by the strong personality of Lear. In Willy A. Kleinau and (after his death) in Wolfgang Heinz Langhoff were outstanding performers available to show the required conception - the relationship between the individual fate of King Lear and the political power struggles - impressive with great acting skills to design.