Benno Besson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Benno Besson

Swiss theatre director and actor

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1922

Place of Birth: Yverdon-les-Bains, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland

Date of Death: 23-Feb-2006

Profession: actor, theater director

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Benno Besson (born René-Benjamin Besson; 4 November 1922 in Yverdon-les-Bains; died 16 February 2006 in Berlin, Germany) was a Swiss actor and director.
He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949. Some of his acquainted stagings were "The Dragon" by Evgeny Schwartz, so that he travelled with Deutsches Theater all-around Europe and Asia (also in Japan), and "Der Frieden" (Aristophanes edited by Peter Hacks).
He became the Intendant at Volksbühne in the 1960s and worked often with Heiner Müller.
In his plays, he worked amongst others with the popular actors Fred Düren, Eberhard Esche and Ursula Karusseit.
He had six children, including actress Katharina Thalbach.



Description	Danish photographer
Date of birth/death	18 November 1935	14 January 2018
Location of birth	Copenhagen
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