Dieter Sturm

Dieter Sturm is one of the most important dramaturges of the German speaking theatre. Together with Leni Langenscheidt, Jürgen Schitthelm and Klaus Weiffenbauch he founded the Berliner Schaubühne am Halleschen Ufer in 1962, where he worked as Dramaturge until 1968 when he withdrew from theatre for two years to dedicate himself to political work. He returned to the Schaubühne in 1970, where he remained until 1994, receiving the Kortner Prize in 1993. Botho Strauß described him as the ‘unknown secret’ behind all the productions of Peter Stein, Luc Bondy and Klaus Michael Grüber.