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Wolfgang Langhoff

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22: 237: 53: 149:. After it was translated by Lilo Linke into English it became one of the first internationally known eyewitness accounts of brutality in the Nazi concentration camps. Langhoff was a founding member of the 394: 486: 481: 436: 471: 466: 426: 431: 88:. In 1926 he married the actress Renata Edwina Malacrida, who bore him two children, Thomas (1938-2012) and Matthias (1942). From 1928 to 1932 he played at the 491: 476: 461: 456: 130:, Langhoff was released as part of the so-called Easter amnesty in 1934. Overall, Langhoff spent 13 months in prisons and concentration camps. 248:
in Berlin, a theatre which he led from 1946 to 1963, that Langhoff's fame as a director rests. His notable productions there include:
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and was the artistic director of the agitprop troupe "ran northwest," founded in 1930, which performed at union events. The dancer
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Grave of Renate and Wolfgang Langhoff in the cemetery of the congregations of Dorotheenstadt und Friedrichswerder in Berlin
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in February 1933 and initially detained in the Düsseldorf jail, where he was subjected to severe torture by the
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and then from 1932 to 1933 at the Grand Theatre in Düsseldorf. Langhoff was involved at this time with the
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Rubber truncheon. Being an account of thirteen months spent in a concentration camp
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Langhoff and his wife are buried in the 'Zentralfriedhof', made famous by
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de:Friedhof der Dorotheenstädtischen und Friedrichswerderschen Gemeinden
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This article's description of Langhoff's directing career is taken from
44:) was a German theatre, film and television actor and theatre director. 345: 194: 177:, which also opened at the Schauspielhaus Zürich, on 9 September 1943. 116: 108: 81: 314:, who arranged the music of 'Moorsoldaten', and is also buried there. 142: 33: 383:
a section of the equivalent German-language Knowledge (XXG) article
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It is on the strength of his productions of classical texts at the
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The German-language Knowledge (XXG) Article on Wolfgang Langhoff
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German theatre, film and television actor and theatre director
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The Theatre of Bertolt Brecht: A Study from Eight Aspects.
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Three months later – in June of that year – he fled to
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Recipients of the Patriotic Order of Merit in silver
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Index


Berlin
German Empire
German Democratic Republic

Gisela May
Ernst Busch
Wolfgang Heinz
Stockholm
Thalia Theater
Hamburg
Wiesbaden
Schauspielhaus
Düsseldorf
German Communist Party
Hilarius Gilges
Gestapo
SA
Emsland
protest song
Peat Bog Soldiers
Lichtenburg concentration camp
Switzerland
Schauspielhaus
Zurich
Free-Germany Movement
Bertolt Brecht
Mother Courage and Her Children
Life of Galileo
Konrad Wolf

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