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German theater director Peter Zadek was considered an expert on the plays of Shakespeare.
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Peter Zadek

German theater director

Peter Zadek, 83, a German theater director considered an expert on the plays of Shakespeare, died Wednesday in Hamburg after a long illness, according to the city’s St. Pauli Theater.

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“We are mourning a friend and one of the greatest directors of the German theater,” Ulrich Waller, director of the St. Pauli Theater, said in a statement.

Among Zadek’s most famous productions were “Othello” in 1976 at Hamburg’s Schauspielhaus and a 1984 staging of “Ghetto” by Joshua Sobol in Hamburg and Berlin.

He recently staged an acclaimed production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara” in Zurich.

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Born to Jewish parents in Berlin on May 19, 1926, Zadek immigrated with his family to Britain in 1933.

He returned to work in Germany in 1958.

-- times wire reports

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