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Born on the 26th of April in 1943 in Parvomay, Bulgaria. In 1962, he went to live with his father in the GDR and took up veterinary science and theatre studies at Humboldt University Berlin. In 1968 worked with Benno Besson and was assistant to the director Fritz Marquardt at Volksbühne. First contacts with dramatist Heiner Müller, whose plays he has produced time and again ever since.
First productions as director in Bulgaria and the GDR from 1972; protesting against the deprivation of Wolf Biermann’s GDR-citizenship, Gotscheff leaves East Germany in 1979. Until 1985 he lives and works as director in Bulgaria, and gains tremendous fame for his “Philoctet” production in Sofia 1983.
In 1985 invitation by Cologne Schauspiel’s artistic director Klaus Pierwoß for a guest production of Heiner Müller’s play Quartet. Gotscheff moves to Cologne and consequently focuses on working in German(-language) theatres: 1993 until 1996 he is employed as director for Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus, 1995 until 2000 member of the management board of Schauspielhaus Bochum under Leander Haußmann’s artistic direction; regular guest productions in Vienna, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt/Main and Hamburg.
The following awards have recognised his achievements:
1991 prize of the Critic’s Association of the Berlin Academy of the Arts; in the same year, he is voted “Director of the Year” by the prestigious magazine Theaterheute. 2004 invitation to the festival Theatertreffen Berlin with the play „Kampf des Negers und der Hunde“, produced at Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz; 2006 invitation to 43th Theatertreffen Berlin with „Iwanow“, also produced at Volksbühne.
Dimiter Gotscheff died October 20, 2013 in Berlin.
Großes Haus
KAMPF DES NEGERS UND DER HUNDE
by Bernard-Marie Koltès
P: 19 November 2003
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S: Katrin Brack
M: Bert Wrede
A: Wolfram Koch, Samuel Finzi, Almut Zilcher, Milan Peschel
Großes Haus
PHILOKTET / Heiner Müller
P: 9 January 2005
D: Keine
S: Ellen Hofmann.
A: Dimiter Gotscheff, Samuel Finzi und Sepp Bierbichler
Großes Haus
IWANOW
by Anton Chekhov
P: 19. March 2005
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S: Katrin Brack
C: Katrin Lea Tag
M: Sir Henry
L: Henning Streck
A: Samuel Finzi, Michael Klobe, Wolfram Koch, Thorsten Merten, Birgit Minichmayr, Milan Peschel, Silvia Rieger, Marie-Lou Sellem, Alexander Simon, Sir Henry, Winfried Wagner und Almut Zilcher
Großes Haus
DAS GROSSE FRESSEN
BLOW-OUT - Dimiter Gotscheff stages the film that caused the biggest scandal in the 70’s.
P: 26 April 2006
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S: Katrin Brack
C: Katrin Lea Tag
M: Sir Henry
L: Henning Streck
A: Samuel Finzi, Almut Zilcher, Hendrik Arnst, Wolfram Koch, Silvia Rieger, Birgit Minichmayr, Alexander Simon, Marie-Lou Sellem, Winfried Wagner, Milan Peschel, Michael Klobe
Großes Haus
DER SELBSTMÖRDER
THE SUICIDE - Dimiter Gotscheff stages Nikolaj Erdman’s satirical comedy.
P: 7 March 2007
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S / C: Katrin Brack
M: Sir Henry
L: Henning Streck
A: Kathrin Angerer, Samuel Finzi, Max Hopp, Irina Kastrinidis, Michael Klobe, Wolfram Koch, Sergej Lubic, Kurt Naumann, Katharina Rivilis, Marie-Lou Sellem und Axel Wandtke
Großes Haus
UBUKOENIG
P: 22 May 2008
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S: Katrin Brack
C: Ellen Hofmann
M: Sir Henry
L: Torsten König
A: Stephan Baumecker, Frank Büttner, Samuel Finzi, Michael Klobe, Wolfram Koch, Sebastian König, Nele Rosetz und Axel Wandtke.
AGORA, Großes Haus
Prometheus
By Aeschylus. German text by Heiner Müller based on the interlinear version by Peter Witzmann
P: 20 May 2009
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
S / C: Mark Lammert
Musical arrangement: Sir Henry
L: Torsten König
A: Max Hopp, Sebastian König, Frank Büttner, Thorsten Merten, Maia Alban-Zapata und Trystan Pütter
Großes Haus
Die Chinesin
A repainting by Dimiter Gotscheff and Mark Lammert, with texts from other films by Jean-Luc Godard
World premiere: 23 September 2010
D: Dimiter Gotscheff
Room / C: Mark Lammert
L: Torsten König.
A: Sebastian Blomberg, Frank Büttner, Bernd Grawert, Max Hopp, Barbara Prpic, Anne Ratte-Polle und Marie-Lou Sellem
