Hans-Thies Lehmann was born on 22 September 1944 in Ehringshausen, Hesse, Germany. He was an actor, known for Theatre Without Audience (2015). He died on 16 July 2022 in Athens, Greece.
Hans-Thies Lehmann, Andrzej Wirth and Peter Szondi proceeded in 1982 to found the Institute of Applied Theater Studies at the University of Giessen. From this department emerged a whole generation of important directors and groups of the new German theater, such as René Pollesch, She She Pop, Rimini Protokoll, etc.