Hanon Reznikov

Hanon Reznikov ( born Howard Reznik in Brooklyn, New York * September 23, 1950; † New York City, May 3, 2008) was an American theater and film actor, writer, director and co-director of The Living Theatre in New York City ( with Judith Malina ) since the death of Julian Beck in 1985. since 1988 he was married to Judith Malina.

His first contact with the Living Theatre was in 1968, when he saw a performance in New York's Lower East Side. At this time he studied biophysics at Yale University. He joined the group in 1977, and wrote and directed many Living Theatre productions, including Anarchia, And Then The Heavens Closed, The Body of God, Capital Changes, Clearing The Streets, Code Orange Cantata, A Dream Of Water, Enigma, The Rules of Civility, Utopia, and The Zero Method, many of which were played by the group in Germany, most recently she was in the spring of 2008 here on tour.

On 13 April 2008 he suffered a stroke, followed by pneumonia and was in a clinical coma to assist his breathing. He died on 3 May 2008, at the age of 57 years.

The Living Theatre was referring only recently again a permanent theater in New York, after the group in all the major theaters of the peace policy and the anti-globalization movement was on the road and with great road shows such as small workshops, the voices of the silent majority brought to expression.

The effect in Germany is mainly seen at the Berlin Compagnie, but also in the impact on many theater festivals.