Carl Weber (theatre director)

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Carl Weber (7 August 1925 – 25 December 2016) was a theatre director and a professor of drama at Stanford University. He was Bertolt Brecht's directing assistant and a dramaturg and actor at the Berliner Ensemble theatre company in 1952. After Brecht's death in 1956, Weber remained as a director of the company. He directed in major theatres in Germany, America, Canada and elsewhere since 1957. He produced English translations of German dramatist Heiner Müller. He was born in Dortmund, Germany, and died in Los Altos, California.

Plays directed

Here the NY Times Mel Gussow's review: https://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/03/theater/stage-snodgrass-s-fuehrer-bunker.html

Major Tours

Toured as assistant director of Berliner Ensemble in Poland, 1952, Paris,France, 1954 and 1958, London, England, 1956, Moscow and Leningrad, U.S.S.R.(now Russia), 1957, Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), 1958, Stockholm, Sweden, 1959, and Helsinki, Finland, 1959; toured as director with Buehnen der Hansestadt Luebeck in Denmark, 1960, 1961, and 1963.

Stage appearances

Television work

Director

Television appearances

Episodic

Written works

Stage Plays Teleplays Episodic

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