Wolfgang Langhoff

Langhoff was involved at this time with the German Communist Party and was the artistic director of the agitprop troupe "ran northwest," founded in 1930, which performed at union events.

Langhoff was arrested by the Gestapo in February 1933 and initially detained in the Düsseldorf jail, where he was subjected to severe torture by the SA.

Langhoff played Eilif in the first production of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children, which opened at the Schauspielhaus Zürich on 19 April 1941.

[2] He played Ernst Mehlin in Konrad Wolf's film Genesung (1956), von Geir in Nikola Korabov's Tyutyun (1962), and Professor Holt in Joachim Kunert's Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt (1965); he also appeared in Kurt Maetzig and Günter Reisch's Das Lied der Matrosen (1958).

[1] It is on the strength of his productions of classical texts at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin, a theatre which he led from 1946 to 1963, that Langhoff's fame as a director rests.

Wolfgang Langhoff, in 1962.
From left: Wolfgang Langhoff, Gisela May , Ernst Busch and Wolfgang Heinz of the Deutsches Theater in Stockholm in 1960.
Grave of Renate and Wolfgang Langhoff in the cemetery of the congregations of Dorotheenstadt und Friedrichswerder in Berlin