David Mouchtar Samorai

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David Mouchtar-Samorai (* 1942 in Baghdad ) is an Israeli theater and opera director who works in Germany and Switzerland.

Life

David Mouchtar-Samorai's family belonged to the Jewish minority in Iraq that was exposed to a pogrom instigated by the Germans in 1941 during World War II . In 1950 the family emigrated to Israel .

Mouchtar-Samorai completed an acting training at the Habima Drama School and studied at the University of Tel Aviv , he initially worked as an actor and director at the Israeli National Theater Habimah . In 1965 he moved to Great Britain , where he deepened his training at the Royal Court Actors Studio . He made his directorial debut at the Citizens Theater in Glasgow , further engagements followed at the Traverse Theater in Edinburgh and the Young Vic in London .

Since 1975 Mouchtar-Samorai has been working as a guest director, mainly in German-speaking countries. With the Heidelberg Theater , where he was in-house director, he was invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen three times, in 1980, 1981 and 1982, and then again in 1987 with the Schauspiel Bonn , each time with productions of classics of theater literature. He was invited again in 1996 with the Bonn production of Arthur Miller's The Big Bang . In the 1982/1983 theater season he moved from Heidelberg to the Schauspiel Frankfurt and from 1985 worked as in-house director at the Bonn Theater. In 1989 he also joined Michael Bogdanov at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus as in-house director . With the Hamburg production of August Strindberg's Nach Damascus , he was invited to the Stockholm Strindberg Festival.

As a freelance director, he often works in Switzerland . From the 1990s he also staged operas and in 1997 was awarded the Bavarian Theater Prize for his staging of Verdi's Macbeth at the Bremen Theater . In 2004 he staged the world premiere of Purcell's dream of King Arthur by Tankred Dorst at the Hessian State Theater in Wiesbaden .

His directorial work is often taken up contradictingly.

David Mouchtar-Samorai and his wife Fiona have two children.

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  1. ↑ Norman A. Stillman, The jews of arab lands in modern times , New York 1991, pp. 117–119
  2. ↑ David Mouchtar-Samorai , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 45/2006 of November 11, 2006, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on December 6, 2013 ( beginning of article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Mouchtar Samorai, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli theater and opera director
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Baghdad