- 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.
- Hans-Thies Lehmann was closely connected with Greece, due to his classical education and his love for Greek culture. In the last years of his life, he chose to live with his wife, dramatist and critic Eleni Varopoulou, in Athens. He repeatedly taught young Greek artists and theater scholars at the Argos Festival and the Summer Academy of the National Theatre.
- Lehmann's range of literary and theatrical studies spans from Sophocles, Kleist and Buchner, to Brecht and Heiner Müller, decisively influencing the reception of these authors and contributing to new approaches to their work.
- His extremely important work 'The Metadramatic Theatre', published in 1999 and translated into at least 30 languages, influenced the searches of the modern stage as little as possible.
- He continued his academic career by founding the Institute for Theatre, Film and Media Science at the Johan Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Main.
- He was honored with many distinctions: he was President of the International Brecht Society for a number of years, while he was a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, which celebrated his 75th anniversary with a large international meeting at its Berlin headquarters.
- He studied at the Institute of Comparative Literature of the Free University of Berlin alongside Peter Szondi, with whom he was also a collaborator.
- In 2018 he was awarded the big Thalia prize of the International Union of Theater Critics.
- Lehmann's teaching offer was not limited to the European area, but also extends to the American continent (North, Central and South), to many Asian countries and to Australia.
- He was one of the leading and most influential European theater theorists.
- He worked as a dramatist alongside important directors such as Yossi Wieler, Thodoros Terzopoulos and Falk Richter.
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