Director of La finta giardiniera. Since 1970 he has also helped to make German dramatists such as Brecht, Heiner Müller, and Karl Valentin well-known in France. Together with the painters Gilles Aillaud, Titina Maselli, and Lucio Fanti, whom he was able to engage as set designers, he has developed plays on Rousseau, Montaigne, and Spinoza. He has translated and directed works by Kleist, including Die Hermannschlacht (Hermann’s Battle), and Heiner Müller’s most important theatrical works, including Hamletmaschine (Hamlet Machine), Verkommenes Ufer (Despoiled Shore), Medeamaterial (Medea Material), Landschaft mit Argonauten (Landscape with Argonauts), and Germania 3, which premiered in London. His translation of Georg Büchner’s Dantons Tod (Danton’s Death) was produced in Paris. Also a successful playwright and screenwriter, he regularly teaches at the University of Paris at Nanterre and has led workshops at the Universities of Giessen and Frankfurt.
In 2003, Im Spiegel wohnen by Andreas Breitscheid at Forum Neues Musiktheater.