Among others he worked in Darmstadt from 1924 to 1927, at the Schiller-Theater from 1938 to 1944, and after the war he was the director at the German Staatsoper from 1945 to 1952 as well as at the German Theater Berlin from 1947 to 1951 in the new founded GDR. With it he played an important role for the culture life of this young country.