Hasko Weber was born on 10 December 1963 in Dresden. After taking his Abitur (higher education entrance qualification), he trained as a mechanical and plant fitter, then studied acting at the Hans Otto Drama College in Leipzig from 1985 to 1989. In 1989, he was taken on as an actor and director at the Städtische Bühnen Karl-Marx-Stadt/Chemnitz by the theatre’s executive director Gerhard Meyer. In the same year, he founded the Dramatische Brigade (Dramatic Brigade), an independent group with links to the Städtische Bühnen that drew artistic and political attention with its very first productions. In 1990, he worked for the first time at the Staatsschauspiel Dresden, where he was employed for the following two years as an actor with directorial duties and took over the position of director of drama in 1993 (under executive director Dieter Görne). For eight years, until 2001, he moulded the theatre’s company and aesthetic approach. This was followed by engagements as a freelance director at theatres in various German cities, including Karlsruhe, Saarbrücken and Mannheim. In 2002, Friedrich Schirmer attracted him to the Staatstheater Stuttgart, where he became associate director a year later. In the same year, his celebrated production of Ibsen’s “Brand” was awarded the Bavarian Theatre Prize. In the 2005/06 season, Hasko Weber assumed the post of executive director at the Staatstheater Stuttgart as the successor to Friedrich Schirmer. From the season 2013/2014 he takes over the German National Theatre in Weimar.
