Consciousness, Literature and the Arts
Volume 19 Number 2/3 August/December 2018
(Final Issue)
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Heinz-Uwe Haus is an internationally renowned director and is considered one of the world’s leading authorities on Bertolt Brecht XE "Brecht, Bertolt" . Educated and trained in Germany at the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg, as well as at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin, Dr Haus began his long artistic and academic career as director at the Deutsches Theatre Berlin, and as founding member of the East German Directing Institute and Head of its Directing Department. In addition to his work in Germany, he has directed for the National Theatres of Greece, Cyprus, and Turkey, and worked with companies from Chile, Finland, Italy, South Korea, Canada, and the United States. His productions have appeared at various festivals throughout Europe.
Dr Haus has been a guest professor at more than a dozen North American universities and has given more than 500 lectures and workshops worldwide. Since 1997, he has served as Professor at the Professional Theatre Training Program (PTTP) and the Theatre Department of the University of Delaware, Newark (USA). In addition to publishing in his field, he writes about intercultural and political topics in German, English and Greek media. His literary texts and poetry as well as his work as painter (partly under his pseudonym Jean Bodin) are only recently made known to a wider international audience.
Dr Haus was in 1989/90, a board member of the East German “Democratic Awakening” party (Demokratischer Aufbruch) and founder and representative of the “Praxis Group” in the US. 1992-1993 he worked as director of the Educational Centre Schloss Wendgraeben of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation.