Biography

Hans Lietzau was born on September 2, 1913 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Die chinesische Mauer (1965), Herbert Engelmann (1959) and Kolportage (1957). He was married to Carla Hagen and Alice Engel. He died on November 30, 1991 in Berlin, Germany.

In 1953 he directed Friedrich Schiller's The Robbers, with Ernst Schröder as Karl Moor.

He directed the German première of the French dramatist Jean Genet's play The Balcony in 1959 and the world première of his play The Screens in 1961, both of which played at the Schlosspark-Theater in Berlin.

From 1969 to 1970 he was the theatre manager of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg.

Hans Lietzau was a German theatre director, actor, and producer.

Lietzau was married to actress Carla Hagen. With the aim of making her husband's artistic legacy permanently accessible to the public, she left the legacy to the Berlin Academy of Arts. The legacy included several thousand photographs and documents relating to his directing work in Vienna, Hamburg, Bochum, and Berlin.