The celebrated German director Walter Asmus was appointed Honorary Trustee of the Samuel Beckett Society at a presentation at the Beckett International Foundation seminar at the University of Reading on Saturday 1 November. Walter Asmus first met Samuel Beckett at the Schiller Theater in West Berlin in 1974, where he assisted Beckett to direct Waiting For…
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The Beckett International Foundation has just announced that the 35th annual BIF Seminar will take place at the Minghella Studios, the University of Reading, on 1 November 2025. Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Beckett’s production of Warten auf Godot at the Schiller-Theater in Berlin in 1975, Walter Asmus, who assisted Beckett on this production, will join the conference for a…
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Titled ‘Beckett in Babylon’ and billed as ‘an unprecedented three-day programme that shines a light on Samuel Beckett’s work in Germany’, a fascinating short festival will take place at the historic Babylon Kino in Berlin, presented by The Embassy of Ireland. A major highlight will include big-screen presentations of Beckett’s pioneering television plays created between…
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In a 2016 interview for BOMB Magazine, Lisa Dwan and Walter Asmus talk to Michael Coffey about their collaboration on Beckett’s late plays
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The British Library: “This edition of Waiting for Godot is annotated by Beckett for the San Quentin Drama Workshop’s 1984 production, which Beckett supervised for ten days. The production was rehearsed at London’s Riverside Studios before opening at the Adelaide Arts Festival in Australia and later touring Europe. Directed by Walter Asmus, it starred Cluchey as Pozzo, Lawrence Held as Estragon, Bud Thorpe as Vladimir, J Pat Miller as Lucky and Louis Beckett Cluchey as A Boy.”
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The Samuel Beckett Society 