Johanna Schall
Johanna Schall ( born September 19, 1958 in Berlin ) is a German actress and theater director.
Life
The daughter of Barbara Brecht - Schall and Ekkehard Schall and granddaughter of Helene Weigel and Bertolt Brecht began her theater training in Berlin in 1980. Their first permanent engagement as an actress she had from 1982 to 1984 at the Kleist Theatre Frankfurt ( Oder). Johanna Schall was from 1984 to 1997 member of the ensemble of the Deutsches Theater in Berlin. As a theater director, she began to work in 1993 and has appeared in this role at the theaters in Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz, Karlsruhe, Berlin and Bremen. From 2002 to 2007 she was the Acting Director of the National Theatre Rostock and then one years a guest lecturer at the University of Toronto. Since then she has returned to freelancing as a director.
Filmography
Important theater productions as a director
- The Pelican by August Strindberg at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig
- In the Jungle of Cities by Bertolt Brecht at the Deutsches Theater Berlin
- The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen at the Schauspielhaus Leipzig
- The Misanthrope by Molière at the State Theater in Karlsruhe
- The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller at the State Theater in Karlsruhe
- Puntila and his Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht at the People's Theatre in Rostock
- The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin
- Hamlet by William Shakespeare at the People's Theatre in Rostock
- Cathy of Heilbronn by Heinrich von Kleist at the Bad Hersfeld Festival 2009
- The Lying Baron Munchausen by Erich Kästner at the People's Theatre in Rostock ( Big House ) September 2010
- The Master and Margarita drama based on the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov at the Theater Ingolstadt ( Big House ) in March 2011