Gerhardt Haag

Gerhardt Haag

Biography

Gerhardt Haag was born in 1949 in the Northern Black Forest, and attended the Max-Reinhardt-Schauspielschule in West Berlin from 1970-1973. Thereafter he worked as an actor and directorial assistant in the city theatres of Gießen and Mainz, before founding the Freie Werkstatt-Theater in Cologne in 1981. In 1995, he took over the direction of the Theater im Bauturm - Freies Schauspiel Köln.

For many years he has cultivated close contacts with the theatre scene in Burkina Faso. In 2011, he organised the first africologne theatre festival there. 

Filmography

Workshop (Atelier): Kultur ohne Grenzen : Guest