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1962-1964 Studied at the State Drama School in East Berlin. First job as an actor at Parchim Theatre/Mecklenburg. 1967-1970 hired at Potsdam Theatre, where he debuted as a director. Fritz Marquardt brought him to the Volksbühne in East Berlin, where he created a production of Georg Büchner’s “Leonce and Lena” in 1978 that was critical of the system; it was taken off the programme.
In the same year he moved to West Germany. After his first productions at the Staatstheater Hanover and Bremen Theatre, his breakthrough came in 1984 at Cologne Schauspiel with Sophocles’s “Oedipus Rex”. The production with Ulrich Wildgruber in the lead role was awarded the European Theatre Prize in 1985 at the Theatre Biennale in Venice.
1984-1988 director at Thalia Theatre Hamburg under the management of Jürgen Flimm. 1987 debut as opera director. 1988/1989 member of the artistic management of the Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Then he once again worked as a freelance director, including productions at Schauspielhaus Bochum and Schauspiel Frankfurt/Main.
1993-1999 director at Deutsches Theater Berlin under the management of Thomas Langhoff. Since then, Gosch has worked regularly at Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf and at the Deutsches Theater Hamburg.
In 1988/1989, he succeeded Peter Stein as a member of the artistic management at the Berlin Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz. Subsequently – following the failure of his “Macbeth” – he worked again as a freelance director at various theatres, including the Schauspielhaus Bochum and the Schauspiel Frankfurt/Main. From 1993 to 1999, he was an associate director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under its artistic director Thomas Langhoff. There followed many works at the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf (under artistic director Anna Badora) and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg (under artistic director Tom Stromberg).
In 2004, he enjoyed great success at a national level with Gorky’s “Summer Folk” in Düsseldorf and Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” at the Deutsches Theater Berlin. Since then, Gosch has celebrated a triumphant comeback in German-language theatre. He received the Theatre Prize of the Association of German Critics in 2006 and was chosen as director of the year in the Theater heute critics survey both in 2004 (for “Summer Folk”) and in 2006 (for his Düsseldorf “Macbeth”). Since the 2006/2007 season, Gosch has again had a permanent position at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, but he remained much in demand as a guest director, staying loyal to the Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf while working at the Schauspielhaus Zurich and other theatres.
