The Long Road to Reunification

On Thursday, 21 October 2010, 20.00 hrs, Professor Heinz-Uwe Haus will hold a lecture entitled "The Long Road to Reunification - Report of an Eye Witness and Activist". Professor Haus is known to the majority of Cypriots for his legendary staging of Brecht's "Mother Courage" in cooperation with THOK in 1975 when a great number of Cypriots lived in tents after the invasion.

Professor Haus, originally from East Berlin, was a founding member of the East German movement "Demokratischer Aufbruch" which contributed to bring about the fall of the communist regime of the former German Democratic Republic and will talk from first-hand experience as somebody who lived the change in Eastern Europe and who actively took part in bringing it about.

Heinz-Uwe Haus is an internationally renowned theatre director and is considered one of the world's leading authorities on Bertolt Brecht. Educated and trained in Germany at the Film Academy Potsdam-Babelsberg (Acting), as well as at the Humboldt University in Berlin (Cultural Studies, German Literature and Theatre Science), Dr. Haus began his long artistic and academic career as director at the Deutsches Theater Berlin, and founding member of the East German Directing Institute and head of its Directing Department. In addition to his work in Germany, he has directed the National Theatres of Greece, Cyprus and Turkey, and worked with companies from Chile, Finland, Italy, South Korea, Canada and the USA. His productions have appeared in festivals throughout Europe. Dr. Haus has been a guest professor at numerous North American universities.