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the Düsseldorf Playhouse and the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg. For his production of Gorky's Summerfolk he was chosen Director of the Year for 2004 by the critics' poll in the trade journal Theater Heute. Gosch received that honour again in 2006 for his staging of Macbeth at the Düsseldorf Playhouse, That production also won the German Theatre Association's Faust award. Many of Gosch's productions have been invited to Berlin's Theatertreffen - an annual theatre festival featuring the year's top Germanlanguage productions - including his Deutsches Theater staging of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in 2005, and his world premiere production ofYasmina Reza's The God of Carnage for the Zurich Playhouse in 2007. Between 2006 and 2009 Jürgen Gosch was one of the Deutsches Theater's in-house directors. Here he staged: Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream ; two Chekhov plays - Uncle Vanya and The Seagull, as well as his final production, Roland Schimmelpfennig's Idomeneus. Both Uncle Vanya and The Seagull were invited to the Theatertreffen festival - in 2008 and 2009 respectively - and Uncle Vanya was voted »Production of the Year« for 2008 by Theater Heute's jury of independent critics. In 2009 Jürgen Gosch was awarded the World Theatre Day Prize by the German Centre of the International Theatre Institute. At the 2009 Theatertreffen festival, Gosch and his longtime set- and costume designer Johannes Schütz were honoured with the Berlin Theatre Award for their »outstanding contribution to German-language theatre«. Jürgen Gosch was also made an honorary member of the Deutsches Theater on May 26,2009.