Mathias Dieskau

German creator of stage productions for opera, musicals, dance & theatre, born in Berlin in 1951 as the eldest son of the song and opera singer Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Worked as an assistant at the Basel Theater and at the Salzburg Festival in the first half of the 1970s. Later founded the Jungen Ensemble Für Musiktheater in Berlin, one of the first independent opera groups. With the premiere of Eine Linke Geschichte in 1980, an intensive collaboration with the Berliner Grips Theater began. His greatest successes included the 1986 production Linie 1 (which was adapted as a movie and is still being played today) and Ab Heute Heißt Du Sara (1988). Fischer-Dieskau later worked at the Theater Des Westens in Berlin, in Hannover, Kassel, Liepzig and Vienna, ... He has successfully developed over 100 productions for opera, plays, musicals and shows to date. (Source: Burghard Rausch, Aus Grauer Städte Mauern - Die Neue Deutsche Welle (NDW))