Manfred Karge
Manfred Karge (born March 1, 1938, in Brandenburg an der Havel) is a German dramatist. He is best known among English-speaking audiences for the staging of Brecht's "Mann ist Mann" (1926) as Man to Man. From 1958 to 1961 he studied at the Berlin State Drama School in what was then East Germany.
Manfred Karge
- Born
- 1938 · Brandenburg an der Havel.
- Nationality
- Germany · German Democratic Republic
- Occupation
- actor · writer · director · playwright · musician
- Fields
- theatre · drama · directing · performing arts
- Education
- Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts
- Languages
- German
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He was in Berlin at the time of the building of the Berlin Wall. His 1986 play "The Conquest of the South Pole" was first shown in Britain in 1988 with Alan Cumming in the lead role at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh. This was then made into a film set in Leith (the harbour area of Edinburgh) in 1989 starring Ewen Bremner and John Michie.
Manfred Karge studied at Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts. The recorded working language is German. The field of work recorded is theatre, drama and directing. Employment is recorded with Burgtheater.
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Manfred Karge appears in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as an actor, playwright and director (born 1 March 1938). Manfred Karge was born on 1 March 1938 in Brandenburg.
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