Villa Sieskind, formerly the building of the Theaterhochschule
The Theaterhochschule Leipzig was a
theatre school in
Leipzig,
Saxony, Germany, which existed from 1953 to 1992. The official name was Theaterhochschule "Hans Otto" Leipzig.
History
The Theaterhochschule Leipzig was founded on 1 November 1953 as a merger of two institutions, the
Deutsches Theater-Institut [
de] in
Weimar and the Theaterschule Leipzig. From the late 1960s,
Bertolt Brecht was a teacher. In 1967 it was named after the actor
Hans Otto whom the Nazis had murdered in 1933. The Hochschule was located at the Villa Sieskind in the
Musikviertel [
de] and buildings in the neighbourhood.