Augusto Fernandes

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Augusto Fernandes (born March 12, 1937 or November 29, 1939 in Portugal , † December 18, 2018 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine theater director and head of a drama school in Buenos Aires.

Life

Fernandes emigrated to Buenos Aires with his parents. At the age of five he attended a theater school there and from the age of seven took on small theater and film roles. In 1955 he joined the Independent Theater movement, and since 1961 he has also worked as a director. In 1968 Fernandes founded the experimental theater group ETEBA (Equipo de Teatro Experimental des Buenos Aires) . With its 1970 production of La Leyenda de Pedro based on Peer Gynt , the ensemble was invited to Nancy and Florence in 1971 .

Fernandes has worked primarily in Germany since 1973 and devoted himself exclusively to directing and acting. In 1973 he staged Prince Sigismund's Dream and Life after Calderón at the Frankfurt Theater , in 1974 the Barbaric Comedy after Valle-Inclán , in 1975 Heinrich IV. Von Pirandello . In 1974 he directed Dona Rosita von Lorca for Peter Zadek at the Schauspielhaus Bochum , and in 1975 the great Zenobia after Calderón. This was followed by works that arose from group improvisations: Atlantis (1996) and The Admiral of the Sad Shape (1978). In 1979 he and Lew Bogdan opened the Institut Européen de l'Acteur in Nancy, which is dedicated to the training of professional actors.

At the Schauspielhaus Hamburg he returned to literary theater, which is enriched with improvisations, as in Shakespeare's Pericles (1981) and Der Groß-Cophta von Goethe (1982). He worked at the Schiller Theater in Berlin ( The great world theater of Calderón 1988, A dream play by August Strindberg 1989). In 1993 he staged Rigoletto by Verdi at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden , musical director Daniele Gatti .

Fernandes has worked with many important actors such as Peter Roggisch , Hannelore Hoger , Imogen Kogge , Uwe Bohm and Sepp Bierbichler .

Since 1981 he has been back in Argentina more often. In 1988 his production Reflejos de una vieja leyenda: Fausto premiered in Buenos Aires at the Teatro Nacional Cervantes there . After teaching at international institutes for decades, Fernandes founded his own school for actors and directors in Buenos Aires in 1996.

literature

  • Nina Grabe: Fernandes, Augusto . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 198 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ according to Theaterlexikon 2, p. 198
  2. ↑ according to IMDb
  3. ↑ https://www.lanacion.com.ar/2203861-murio-augusto-fernandes-amante-del-teatro-destacado
personal data
SURNAME Fernandes, Augusto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian theater director and director of an acting school in Buenos Aires
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1937 or November 29, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Portugal
DATE OF DEATH December 18, 2018
Place of death Buenos Aires