Theater director Dimiter Gochev died

On Sunday, September 20, in Berlin, at the age of 70, theatrical director Dimiter Gochev died.

This was reported by the Der Tagesspiegel newspaper with reference to the German theater in Berlin, whose full -time Gochev has been since 2005. “The European Theater has lost one of its most significant artists,” writes Theater Der Zeit .

Dimiter Gochev was born in 1943 in Bulgaria, in 1962 he moved with his family in the GDR, in the mid-1960s he became interested in the theater, studied with Benno Besson, worked as an assistant to the director in Berlin theaters.

A special role for Dimiter Gochev was played by acquaintance with playwright Heiner Müller, whose plays he staged more often than others. The premiere of Gochev’s last performance based on the play by Muller “Cement” took place in May 2013 in the Munich “residestar”.

In 1979, Gochev returned to Bulgaria. One of his most striking productions in his homeland was Fikoltet based on the play by Heiner Muller, presented in Sofia in 1983. Since 1986, the director lived and worked in Germany - in Gannover, Dusseldorf, Hamburg and Bochum, where from 1995 to 2000 he was the main director of the drama theater.

Since 2000, Gochev worked as a freelance director in the theaters of Berlin, Frankfurt-on-Main and Vienna, in 2005, for staging the play “Ivanov” in Chekhov in the Berlin Theater “Volksbun”, Theater Heute Happed his title “Director of the Year”. In addition, Gochev became the laureate of the Prize of Peter Weiss, the Berlin Theater Prize, the award of German critics and other theatrical awards.