Julio Tahier

Julio Tahier (born October 12, 1906 , † August 27, 2004 ) was an Argentine doctor, theater director and author.

Tahier was a respected pediatrician with own practices at the Instituto Jenner , the Fernández Hospital and the Ramos Mejía Hospital . He was also active in the Argentina contra la tuberculosis league and worked at Hospital Británico until 1976 . In 1939 he received the Premio Centeno for his work in the field of tuberculosis in children .

In 1962 he took acting lessons at the Teatro Nuevo under the direction of Alejandra Boero , Pedro Asquini and Conrado Ramonet and performed plays by Eugène Ionesco , Fernando Arrabal , Michel de Ghelderode and Eduardo Pavlovski as a member of the Yenesi group .

With Patricio Esteve he brought La gran histeria nacional on stage in 1972 , one of the most successful musical comedies of the 1970s in Argentina. In 1979 he wrote his most important work, Gotán , a work for music theater with a libretto based on tango poems, which was shown for several years at the Teatro de la Fábula . This genre was named ópera rantifus , and Tahier was awarded the Premio Molière .

In the same style he wrote Tangos y mangos (1985), Cantame un tango, Romeo (1984) and Garibaldi Pum (1987), the latter together with Esteve. As a director, he has directed contemporary Argentinian plays such as La espera trágica , Color de ciruela , Circus loquio , El camello sin anteojos , Tercero incluido , Faburlando en Buenos Aires and ¿Probamos otra vez? on. For this he received the Premio Talía in 1970 . In 1981 he was awarded the Premio Estrella de Mar for Gotán .

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SURNAME	Tahier, Julio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine writer, director and doctor
DATE OF BIRTH	October 12, 1906
DATE OF DEATH	August 27, 2004