Jürgen Flimm was a German theater and opera director, as well as a theater manager. Flimm was born in Gießen. Flimm began his career as an assistant director at the Munich Kammerspiele in 1968, after studying drama theory, literature, and sociology at the University of Cologne.
Flimm worked as a director at the National Theatre Mannheim and as a senior director at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg (1973-74), then as a freelance director and director at the Schauspiel Cologne.
Flimm was a professor at the University of Hamburg and a member of the Hamburg, Munich, Berlin, and Frankfurt Academies of Arts. Flimm was named an honorary doctor of the University of Hildesheim.
Among his prizes and awards are the Free and Hanse Town Hamburg Medal for Art and Science, the Konrad-Wolf-Prize of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Order of the FRG), and the Austriaische Ehrenkreuz für Kunst und Wissenschaft (Austrian Cross of Honour for Arts and Sciences).
Jürgen Flimm Net Worth At Time Of Death
Jürgen Flimm had a net worth of $5 million at the time of death.