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- Frank Castorf was born on July 17, 1951 in East Berlin, East Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Bajazet - Considering the Theatre and the Plague (2019), Greed (2004) and Schmutzige Hände (1999).
- In 2013, he directed a "deliberately incoherent" production of the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuth Wagner Festival, which was booed by the audience.
- He has continued to expand the boundaries of theater by mixing multimedia into the performances so that parallel actions and time shifts could be shown on video screens .
- From 1981till 1985 he led his own ensemble at the Theater Anklam where he came to the fore with the GDR regime through a series of unconventional classic productions: William Shakespeare's Othello in 1982, Bertolt Brecht's Trommeln in der Nacht (Drums in the Night) in 1984 and Nora after Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House 1985.
- His diploma dissertation, which was formally commended, was entitled "Ground Rules for the 'Development' of Ionesco's Global Ideological Perspective and Artistic-Aesthetic Position". He made numerous culturally focused visits to Poland during this period.
- After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, he freelanced in Hamburg , Munich , Berlin and Basel.
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