Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer, long-time director of the Dresden Children's and Youth Theater, died

The long-time director of Dresden's children's and youth theater, Gunild Lattmann-Kretschmer, is dead. She died on Saturday at the age of 87, the Theater Junge Generation announced on Sunday, citing her daughter. Lattmann-Kretschmer was director of the theater from 1976 to 1996. She was also politically active and sat in the Saxon state parliament for the PDS, among others.