Hellmuth Matiasek

Hellmuth Matiasek
Born(1931-05-15)15 May 1931
Vienna, Austria
Died7 April 2022(2022-04-07) (aged 90)
Rosenheim, Bavaria, Germany
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(m. 1967)​
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Hellmuth Matiasek ([ˈhɛlmuːt ˈmatjasɛk]; 15 May 1931 – 7 April 2022; also spelled Helmuth)[1][2] was an Austrian theatre and film director, theatre manager and teacher. He founded a small avant-garde theatre in Vienna at age 22. After working at the Salzburger Landestheater as stage director, he became the company's intendant (managing director) in 1962, then the youngest intendant in German-speaking theatre. From 1983 to 1996, he was intendant of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz in Munich, where he co-founded and later managed the drama school Bayerische Theaterakademie August Everding. He was close to the composer Carl Orff, and managed the Carl Orff-Festspiele Andechs.

  1. ^ Helmuth Matiasek: Die Komik der Clowns. (in German) Dissertation. Universität Wien, Vienna 1958, ONB
  2. ^ Helmuth Matiasek (et al.): Schönbrunner Schloßtheater (…) Mittwoch, den 25. Juni 1952 (…) Freitag, den 27. Juni 1952 (…) Festvorstellung zum 100jähr(igen) Bestand der Schauspielschue Glück, Missbrauch und Rückkehr oder Das Geheimnis des grauen Hauses (…). Bildliche Darstellung. Elbemühl, Wien 1952. – Image online.