sentences:  From 1952 to 1959, he was chief dramaturg and director at the Mannheim National Theatre.He was a theatre director in Heidelberg from 1959 to 1962.From 1962 to 1968, he was director of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden and gained prominence by inviting several theatre companies from Eastern Europe to the Internationale Maifestspiele Wiesbaden.