Benno Besson, 1983The Théâtre Benno Besson in Yverdon, named in his honour
Benno Besson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland – 23 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a theatre director.
Besson was the son of a teacher couple in french speaking Switzerland, Kanton Vaud. He was the youngest of their six children.
BennoBesson was a Swiss Theatre Director. BennoBesson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland – 23 February 2006...
Strittmatter, Peter Hacks, BennoBesson, Peter Palitzsch and Ekkehard Schall. In the 1950s, the Swiss director BennoBesson with the Deutsches Theater...
Hacks, BennoBesson, Peter Palitzsch and Ekkehard Schall are counted among Brecht's scholars and followers. In the 1950s the Swiss BennoBesson had success...
generation of young directors and dramaturgs, such as Manfred Wekwerth, BennoBesson and Carl Weber. At this time he wrote some of his most famous poems,...
appeared in many East German films. She was married to the director BennoBesson, and was the mother of the actress Katharina Thalbach. The Kaiser's Lackey...
Thalbach's father BennoBesson was a director, her mother Sabine Thalbach, was an actress. Also actors are her half-brother Pierre Besson and her stepmother...
theater and film. He has worked in the theater with directors such as BennoBesson, Dimiter Gotscheff, Frank Castorf, Jürgen Gosch, and Robert Wilson. In...
played the aviator Yang Sun in The Good Person of Szechwan in 1971, under BennoBesson. Glatzeder had already performed in minor roles in cinema and television...
in collaboration with BennoBesson and Elisabeth Hauptmann. It was first performed in 1955 in a production directed by Besson, with music by Rudolf Wagner-Régeny...
premiere of The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper). Brecht's students BennoBesson, Egon Monk, Peter Palitzsch, and Manfred Wekwerth were given the opportunity...
playing the operator of the hospital's cafeteria. Karusseit married BennoBesson in 1969 and held Swiss citizenship through her marriage. She died of...
Mary Sherman Morgan, American scientist and engineer (d. 2004) 1922 – BennoBesson, Swiss-German actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2006) 1923 – Freddy...
Murray-Smith, Théâtre Pull Off Lausanne, Théâtre de Beausobre Morges, Théâtre BennoBesson Yverdon-les-Bains, CO2 Bulle, directed by G. Dyson (Claudia) Valse à...
she took part in productions by Wolfgang Langhoff, Wolfgang Heinz, BennoBesson and Adolf Dresen [de]. In parallel with her theatre work, from 1960 she...
East Berlin, Heartfield worked closely with theatre directors such as BennoBesson and Wolfgang Langhoff at Berliner Ensemble and Deutsches Theater. He...
Jacques Rivette Jerome Savary Stephen Shank Jean Vilar Ruth Berghaus BennoBesson Bertolt Brecht Hans Bunge Frank Castorf Dieter Dorn Erich Engel August...
Chartreux & Jean-Pierre Vincent 1976 As You Like It William Shakespeare BennoBesson 1977 On ne badine pas avec l'amour Alfred de Musset Caroline Huppert...
in collaboration with BennoBesson and premiered at the Berliner Ensemble in November 1952, in a production directed by Besson (his first important production...
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