Biography
Frank Hoffmann was born in Luxemburg in 1954 and studied Romance studies, German and philosophy in his hometown and Heidelberg. He earned his doctorate in 1983 and worked as a freelance theater director in the following years. In 1988, he was appointed to a professorship for directing at the Conservatoire de la Ville de Luxembourg.
Two years later, he was awarded the title "Best New Director" by the journal "Theater heute". Hoffmann put various award-winning plays on European stages, for example at the Ibsen Festival in Oslo, the Strindberg-Festival in Stockholm or at the Festival Internacional de Teatro Classico in Almagro, Spain.
In 1997, Frank Hoffmann founded the Théâtre National de Luxembourg and became its manager. Three years later, he established the first Luxembourgian theater festival under the title "Comédiens – Schauspieler". In 2004, he served as the director of the Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen.
He debuted as a movie director in 1987 with the drama "Die Reise das Land" (LU, co-director: Paul Kieffer). His second film "Schacko Klack" (LU 1989, co-director: Paul Kieffer), about the experience of a Luxembourgian boy during the war in the summer of 1942, was awarded Best Film and Best Directing at the Isfahan International Film Festival of Children and Young Adults in Iran. Despite this success it took Hoffmann 25 years to return to directing films: In 2012 he started shooting the modernized Schiller adaptation "Die Räuber" (LU/D/BE). The film premiered at the Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2015 and was released in German movie theaters two months later.