Albert Hetterle (31 October 1918 – 17 December 2006) was a German actor who also became intendant at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.

Examples included Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova (1970), The Lower Depths (1977), The Philistines (1982) and Barbarians (1987).

[2] His productions of the German classics included Lessing's Minna von Barnhelm and, from the western socialist repertoire various works by Juan Gelman.

During the 1980s the theatre under his direction increasingly staged plays by Soviet authors critical of the political "status quo" in Moscow and, by implicit extrapolation, in East Berlin.

A decisive production, in 1988, was the play Die Übergangsgesellschaft [de] (The Transition Society) by Volker Braun, in which the dramatist anticipated the demise of the East German dictatorship.