Manfred Karge

Biography

Manfred Karge is a German dramatist born on March 1, 1938, in Brandenburg an der Havel. A student at the Berlin State Drama School from 1958 to 1961, he navigated East Germany's turbulent landscape during the building of the Berlin Wall. He gained international recognition for staging Brecht's "Mann ist Mann" and adapting his own play "The Conquest of the South Pole," which premiered in Britain with Alan Cumming.