Fritz Bennewitz (20 January 1926 – 13 September 1995) was a German theatre director.
From as far back as 1957 Bennewitz showed his determination to promote the work of Bertolt Brecht beyond Berlin.
He brought his Meiningen production of The Threepenny Opera to Berlin for the 1958 Festival, where it was a great success.
[2] After 1970 he also became successful overseas, with more than twenty touring productions of works by Goethe, Brecht and Shakespeare in Latin America, Southeast Asia and in India where, in 1991, he received the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award.
[4] Starting in 1977, he also took to conducting "Brecht seminars" in the United States, India and the Philippines.