Michael Lang

Michael Lang has been the director of the Ohnsorg Theater, one of Germany's best-known theatres, since August 1, 2017. With the aim of creating authentic, touching, multi-layered folk theater at the pulse of the times, in which the Low German language plays a leading role, the theater carefully and persistently builds bridges between tradition and further development on its two stages, but also on numerous external playing fields, also with regard to the younger generations, who generally no longer grow up with the Low German language. In recent years, the theater has been repeatedly awarded prizes for this, for example the "Monica Bleibtreu Prize" and the "Hamburg Theater Prize Rolf Mares".

Previously, Michael Lang was director of the Winterhuder Fährhaus comedy theater in Hamburg for 19 years. He created an important addition there with the independent theater KONTRASTE in the small hall with contemporary drama. The theater received the Pegasus Prize for Private Theater for this in 2004 and again in 2016.

After graduating from high school in Hamburg, Michael Lang initially trained as an orchestral musician and music teacher, and was a clarinettist in the Hamburg Philharmonic State Orchestra (State Opera) for six years before deciding to study cultural and media management. Michael Lang is still active at the Hamburg University of Music and Drama today, as Chairman of the University Council.