Albert Hetterle

Biography

Albert Hetterle was a German actor born in Petersthal, Ukraine, just after World War I. He trained in pedagogy and acting, and began his career with the Odesa Theatre Collective, a German-language traveling theatre company. During World War II, Hetterle continued to work in the theatre, but was later relocated to the Soviet occupation zone after the war. He became intendant at the Maxim Gorki Theater in Berlin.