Manfred Wekwerth

{{short description|German theatre and film director (1929–2014)}}

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| name = Manfred Wekwerth

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| alt = black-and-white image of Manfred Wekwerth on right, with Ruth Berghaus on left

| caption = Ruth Berghaus and Wekwerth, 1988

| birth_name = Manfred Weckwerth

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1929|12|03|df=y}}

| birth_place = Köthen, Free State of Anhalt, Weimar Republic

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2014|07|16|1929|12|03|df=y}}

| death_place = Berlin, Germany

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Manfred Wekwerth ({{né|Weckwerth}}; 3 December 1929 – 16 July 2014) was a German theatre and film director and writer. He was the director of the Berliner Ensemble theatre from 1977 to 1991. He was also an informant for East Germany's Stasi from 1965 until the German reunification.Kai Schlüter: Günter Grass im Visier: die Stasi-Akte: eine Dokumentation mit Kommentaren … 2. Auflage. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, p. 184.

Wekwerth was born in Köthen, Saxony-Anhalt.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} He was married to Renate Richter until his death.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} They had one child.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}}

Wekwerth died on 16 July 2014 in Berlin, aged 84.{{cite news|url=http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/berlin/ex-intendant-des-berliner-ensemble-theatermacher-manfred-wekwerth-ist-tot,10809148,27870818.html|title=Theatermacher Manfred Wekwerth ist tot|newspaper=Berliner Zeitung|date=17 July 2014|accessdate=19 July 2014|language=German|first=Werner|last=Hecht}}{{cite web |title=Manfred Wekwerth obituary |date=11 August 2014 |website=The Guardian |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230315082748/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/11/manfred-wekwerth |archive-date=15 March 2023 |url-status=live |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/11/manfred-wekwerth}}