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Fritz Bennewitz was born on 20 January, 1926 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, is a Fritz Bennewitz was German theatre director German theatre director. Discover Fritz Bennewitz's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?
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Theatre Director |
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69 years old |
| Zodiac Sign |
Capricorn |
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20 January, 1926 |
| Birthday |
20 January |
| Birthplace |
Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany |
| Date of death |
1995 |
| Died Place |
Weimar, Thuringia, Germany |
| Nationality |
Germany
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Fritz Bennewitz Height, Weight & Measurements
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Dating & Relationship status
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Fritz Bennewitz Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Fritz Bennewitz worth at the age of 69 years old? Fritz Bennewitz’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from Germany. We have estimated Fritz Bennewitz's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Fritz Bennewitz (20 January 1926 – 13 September 1995) was a German theatre director.
Bennewitz was born in Chemnitz.
His father was a train driver: his mother worked as a seamstress.
Between 1950 and 1953 he was a student of German studies (language, literature, linguistics) at Leipzig and of Theatre at the German Theatre Institute in Weimar.
He went on to lecture on Aesthetics at the Leipzig Theatre Academy.
He became a senior theatre director at Meiningen in 1955 where he remained till 1960, which was when he took a position as director at the German National Theatre at Weimar.
From as far back as 1957 Bennewitz showed his determination to promote the work of Bertolt Brecht beyond Berlin.
He brought his Meiningen production of The Threepenny Opera to Berlin for the 1958 Festival, where it was a great success.
By 1960 his Meiningen Court Theatre had become the second most important Brecht theatre in the German Democratic Republic.
He was also known for his productions of the two parts of Goethe's Faust at Weimar in 1965-67, 1975–76 and 1981-82.
In addition, he staged Faust with the Berliner Ensemble theatre company, both at the Deutsches Theater and at the Volksbühne theatre in Berlin.
Fritz Bennewitz became a corresponding member of the Berlin-based Academy of Arts in 1969 and a full member in 1974.
After 1970 he also became successful overseas, with more than twenty touring productions of works by Goethe, Brecht and Shakespeare in Latin America, Southeast Asia and in India where, in 1991, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
Starting in 1977, he also took to conducting "Brecht seminars" in the United States, India and the Philippines.
Reflecting his heightened profile internationally, Fritz Bennewitz became a consultant and then, in 1984, a vice-president of the International Theatre Institute.
At the time of his death in September 1995 he had just started on rehearsals for a Faust production at the Meiningen theatre where he had started out as a director forty years earlier.
