He caused a stir in 2004 with his production of Die Weber (The Weavers), based on Gerhart Hauptmann's play, at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, which was initially banned by Berlin Regional Court due to controversial passages of text spoken by a chorus of local Dresden residents. The new version put together by Lösch in response to this under the title Die Dresdner Weber (The Dresden Weavers) was chosen by Die deutsche Bühne magazine in 2005 as its "production of the year". Since the 2005/06 season, Lösch has been a director in residence and member of the management team at the Schauspiel Stuttgart under its artistic director Hasko Weber. He has further pursued and perfected his choral theatre in Stuttgart, while continuing to work as a guest director in Dresden, as well as at the Schauspiel Leipzig and the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus.
Volker Lösch
Volker Lösch was born in Worms in 1963 and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. From 1986 to 1989, he studied drama in Kiel and Hamburg, going on to work as an actor from 1989 to 1995 at the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen, the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar and the Theater am Neumarkt in Zurich. Since 1995, he has been employed exclusively as a director. His first production, Saved by Edward Bond, was created on the fringe scene in Zurich (1995, Theater Rote Fabrik). He has worked at numerous municipal and state theatres: in Bern, Bonn, St. Gallen, Berlin, Tübingen, Saarbrücken, Essen, Wuppertal, Graz, Freiburg, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Oberhausen and Stuttgart.
