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Dieter Dorn was born in Leipzig in 1935. After graduating in theatre studies at the Leipzig University of theatre, he was trained as an actor at the Max Reinhardt school in West Berlin. He then worked as an actor, dramaturge and director in Hannover. From 1968 he staged in Essen and Oberhausen, at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus Hamburg and at the Vienna Burgtheater.
From 1972 to 1975 Dieter Dorn was director at Schiller Theater Berlin. In 1976 he was head of the Munich chamber games and from 1983 he was director until 2001.
He also stage operas at the Salzburg and Bayreuth festivals, the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Vienna State Opera, the Berlin State Opera Unter den Linden and the Bavarian State Opera Munich. He has worked with renowned conductors such as Karl Böhm, Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Ingo Metzmacher, Riccardo Muti, Kent Nagano, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Peter Schneider and Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Dieter Dorn has been awarded numerous prizes, including the German Critics ' Prize, the Bavarian order of Maximilian, the city's honorary Cultural Prize, the great Federal Cross of Merit with a star and the special prize of the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and art.
In 2013 Dieter Dorn wrote The Book: "keep playing! – My life for the Theater" appeared at C. H. Beck in Munich.