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Heinz-Uwe Haus (born 6 November 1942) is a German actor, theatre director, author and university professor.

Live life
Heinz-Uwe Haus first studied acting, German studies and cultural and theatre studies at the University of Film and Television in Babelsberg, which he graduated with stage maturity. At the Berlin Academy of Arts he trained as a director, his teachers were Wolfgang Heinz and Manfred Wekwerth. From 1970 to 1975 Haus worked as a director at the Deutsches Theater. Until 1982 he was a founding member of the Berlin Institute for Acting Directory, in 1986 he received his doctorate in Cultural Studies and Philosophy with the work “The significance and application of Brecht’s theatre work in the development of cultural and national identity, explained by the example of the Republic of Cyprus”. From 1992 to 1993 he was head of the educational center Schloss Wendgräben of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation.

As a director, Haus has worked guest at many theaters in Germany and abroad, such as the National Theater Weimar and the Deutsches Theater Göttingen, in Greece at the Athens National Theater, at the Ergastiri Theater in Thessaloniki and at the Regional Theater Kalamata, at the National Theater Ankara and the Cypriot State Theatre, and also at stages in Finland, Italy, Canada and the USA. With his productions he was also represented at festivals such as the International Schillertage in Mannheim or the cultural summer Rhineland-Palatinate.

Since 1997, House has been Professor of Directing Methodology, Dramaturgy and Theater Theory at the University of Delaware in Newark. Guest professorships led him to numerous other US and European universities. Haus holds lectures worldwide, leads workshops and has published numerous articles in journals and similar publications.

Filmography
1968: Captain Florian of the Mill
1972: Police call 110: A little alibi
1973: Police call 110: The ring with the blue sapphire
1976: The Lindstedts – The Farmer Wedding

Theatre (director)
1994: Bertolt Brecht: The Caucasian Cretaceous Circle (German Theater Göttingen)

Publications (selection)
2005: The Brave Tailor, Books on Demand, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-8334-3150-0
2005: Start on the Ashes, Books on Demand, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-8334-3549-2
2008: Performing and Performance (with Utz-Uwe Haus), Books on Demand, Norderstedt, ISBN 978-3-8370-1729-8
2014: The Power and Loss of the Soul (with Klaus M. Schmidt), Publisher Mackinger, Bergheim b. Salzburg, ISBN 978-3-902964-00-7

Awards
Honorary Citizen of Katohi (Greece)
Honorary member of the Centre Cyprus of the International Theatre Institute
Honorary member of the Brecht Society of the USA

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Film actors
Theatre director
Author
University teacher (Newark, Delaware)
Honorary Citizens in Greece
GDR citizens
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