Tom Witkowski (born Günter Klaus Witkowski, November 29, 1937) is a German theatre actor, theatre director, and lecturer.
''Aachener Zeitung'', December 6, 2022 In 1958 he co-founded

Zimmertheater Tübingen Zimmertheater Tübingen is a very small theatre in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany in close neighbourhood to the Hölderlinturm, where Friedrich Hölderlin spent his last years in life and near the Neckar The Neckar () is a river in ...

. From 1979 to 1985, he worked as an actor and director at

Theater Aachen Theater Aachen is a theatre in Aachen, Germany. It is the principal venue in that city for operas, musical theatre and plays. It is the home of the Sinfonieorchester Aachen. The original project was by Johann Peter Cremer, later altered by Ka ...

. He also worked in other theaters in Germany, in Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Mannheim, Oldenburg, and Essen. In 1996 he founded the Aachen Theater School. After a fall from a ladder he injured his spinal cord, resulted in a 15 year long hiatus in his career until 2002.

Awards

* 2017: Grand Gold Decoration of Honour from the

Guild of the German Stage The Guild of the German Stage (''Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger'', or GDBA) is the guild for people who work on the legitimate stage. Its members come from both the areas of stagecraft and artistic workers in theaters from all over Ge ...

(GDBA) ''Fachblatt der GDBA Genossenschaft Deutscher Bühnen-Angehöriger'', 2017, Vol. 69, issue 12/17, p. 28

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Witkowski, Tom 1937 births Living people German actors German theatre directors

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