The independent minded theatre director Wolfgang Engel has died at 81.
He made his name internationally with a Dresden production of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, refusing the East German state prize as a mark of his autonomy.
In later years he directed several operas in Leipzig and Braunschweig.
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