Andrea Breth (born 31 October 1952 in Rieden am Forggensee, Germany) is a stage director. Breth studied German and English language and literature in the University of Heidelberg from 1970 to 1972. In 1999, she became a resident director at the Burgtheater in Vienna. Andrea Breth grew up in Darmstadt. From 1971 to 1973 she studied literature at the University of Heidelberg. Her first directorial engagements took her to Bremen, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Berlin (including 1981 Lessing's Emilia Galotti at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin), the Zurich Schauspielakademie and the Theater Neumarkt in Zurich. From 1983 to 1985, she was director at Theater Freiburg. Her production of Lorca's The House of Bernarda Alba won her the first of a number of invitations to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 1985. In the same year, Theater heute voted her Director of the Year. From 1986 to 1989 Breth worked at the Schauspielhaus Bochum. Green's Southand Gorki's The Last Ones saw Andrea Breth win her second invitation to the Berlin Theatertreffen. In 1990 and 1992 she directed Kleist's Der zerbrochne Krug at the Burgtheater and O'Caseys The End of the Beginning at the Akademietheater.
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31 October 1952 (age 72) Rieden am Forggensee, Germany
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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