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Walter D. Asmus (born 1941 in Lübeck) is a German theatre director. ==Career== Asmus studied German and English Literature, Philosophy and Theatre Sciences in Hamburg, Vienna and Freiburg and spent a year in London in the late sixties where he lived in the vibrant Camden Town with the North Villas set. Experience as an actor and director at University drama groups. First publications (Theater heute, Shakespeare yearbook) After two years as co-director of Theatre in der Tonne (Reutlingen), he worked at the Schiller Theatre in Berlin as assistant director/dramaturgical collaborator and director. There he met Samuel Beckett in 1974 and was assistant for the author's renowned production of "Waiting for Godot", 1975. Asmus worked with Samuel Beckett (theatre and television) until the authors death in 1989 (That Time/ Footfalls/ Play/Come and Go/ Waiting for Godot/ ...but the clouds.../ Ghost Trio/ Eh Joe/ What Where). He directed all of Samuel Beckett's plays internationally. Since 1976 he was freelance director at the Schiller Theater, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Staatstheater Kassel, Thalia Theater, Theater Freiburg and internationally. From 1977 he was teaching in the acting department at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover. 1983-1986 he was director at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. His 1991 Gate Theatre (Dublin) production of "Waiting for Godot" was revived several times with the same cast until 2008 and had en suite runs at the Gate Theatre. It went on tour to Chicago, Sevilla, Toronto, Melbourne, London, New York (Lincoln Center Festival), Beijing and Shanghai. US-tours in 1998 and 2006. It finished after an all-Ireland tour (32 counties, one night only) on October 3, 2008. This production of "Waiting for Godot" (starring Barry McGovern, Johnny Murphy, Alan Stanford and Stephen Brennan) was regarded by reviewers and academics alike as "definitive". In 2000 Asmus was Co-director of the international Beckett-Festival "Beckett in Berlin 2000", Berlin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Walter D. Asmus」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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