Sebastian Hartmann

Sebastian Hartmann (1968) He was born in Leipzig and graduated from the academy of acting. He began his career as an actor at the National Theatre in Weimar and at the Carrousel Theatre in Berlin. From the mid-1990’s on, he worked in the independent theatre scene, and his company, the “Wehrtheater Hartmann” performed at the festivals “Impulse” and “Politik im freien Theater”. In 1999, he staged productions in Jena and at the Theater unterm Dach in Berlin. Then for two years, he had been directing at the Volksbühne under Frank Castorf. He worked in Hamburg, at the Burgtheater in Vienna, Deutsches Theater in Berlin, and also in Basel, Cologne, Magdeburg, Frankfurt, Tallinn and at the National Theatre in Oslo. Between 2008 and 2013, he worked as artistic director at the Centraltheater Leipzig. In 2013, his directing of War and Peace, then in 2019, Humiliated and Insulted were ranked among the ten most remarkable performances by the Theatertreffen in Berlin, the most prestigious festival of German-language theatre.