Ulrich Meyer- Horsch

Actor and Director.
Artistic Director of Michail Cechov Schauspielstudio Hamburg For the last twenty years he has been acting and directing in German state and regional theatres such as Theater Kiel, Theater Lübeck, Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg, Schauspiel Frankfurt, Altonaer Theater, Komödie Düsseldorf and Maxim Gorki Theater Berlin. He has worked with Simon McBurney and Complicite, Philippe Gaulier, Augusto Boal, Lorna Marshall and Yoshi Oida. As an award winning director he is known for his playful productions of the works of Bertolt Brecht.
Ulrich holds diplomas in Acting from Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg, and in Theology, Philosophy and Theatre Pedagogy from the Universities of Heidelberg, Hamburg, London (King’s College) and Kiel.
He studied with Michael Chekhov’s former students Hurt Hatfield, Deidre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers and Joanna Merlin as well as with Chekhov teachers from Germany and Russia. In his approach to the Chekhov Technique he incorporates the exploration of children’s games and work with masks. Since 1994 he has been teaching all over Europe as well as in Brazil. He is a member of the international faculty of MICHA, New York 2012.