René Pollesch was one of the great playwrights and directors of the German theater scene. Less than three years ago he took over as director of the Berlin Volksbühne.
His death on Monday was completely sudden and unexpected, the theater announced in the evening. He worked on many stages, staged his own plays in an experimental way and even turned a drive-in cinema into a theater. He was most recently awarded the Arthur Schnitzler Prize in Vienna in 2019.