Andrea Breth

Andrea Breth (born 31 October 1952) is a stage director. From 1999 to 2019 she was in-house director at the Burgtheater in Vienna and also directed for the Salzburg Festival.

Biography

Born in Rieden am Forggensee, Germany, Andrea Breth grew up in Darmstadt. Her first directorial engagements took her to Bremen, Wiesbaden, Hamburg and Berlin (including 1981 Lessing's Emilia Galotti at the Freie Volksbühne Berlin), staging Horváth's Der jüngste Tag, Kleist's Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, Friedrich Schiller's Maria Stuart and Don Carlos, Albert Ostermaier's Letzter Aufruf and Nach den Klippen, Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm. and Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm at the festival of Aix.

She was Professor of Directing at the University of Performing Arts Ernst Busch in Berlin. She won then again the Nestroy Theatre Prize for Zwischenfälle in 2011 and 2016 for John Hopkin's This Story of Yours. and the Order Pour le Mérite.