Béla Pintér

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Béla Pintér (born September 21, 1970 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian playwright, actor and director. In 1987 he began his acting career with the independent theater group Arvisura and worked as a performer with leading Hungarian ensembles in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1998 he founded his own theater "Pintér Béla és Társulata" (Béla Pintér and Company), or PBEST for short.

Pintér received numerous awards for his plays and productions, including four times the Hungarian Critics' Prize for the best independent theater production of the year.

The farmer opera brought Pintér and his company their international breakthrough in 2002. In Germany they were u. a. at the Heidelberger Stückemarkt , at the euro-scene Leipzig , at the Berlin Festival , at Theaterformen Hannover, the Biennale New Plays from Europe in Wiesbaden, at the Wiener Festwochen and at the Hungarian festival “Leaving is not an option?” in the Berlin Hebbel invited on the shore .

Pintér is one of the younger, advanced theater makers who hold up a mirror to the society of modern Hungary and who critically examine the latest developments in the country.

Staging aesthetics

Pintér's productions oscillate aesthetically between soap opera , movement theater , between farce and tragedy , parable and folklore fairy tales. Again and again Pintér (who studied folk dance himself) falls back on Hungarian folk music and dances, which are used as an ironic means. In his staging of the Peasant Opera, for example, Pintér mixed Transylvanian folklore with Baroque opera and string quartet. In Miststück ABBA songs meet Transylvanian zither melodies. This mix of styles gives the performances an ambiguity that is difficult to grasp. Pintér describes the sources of inspiration for his work as follows: “A real theater maker must be open and be inspired by a Western European performance in front of a white stage sky as well as by traditional dance from Bali. [...] I live and work in Budapest, and the city is present in all of our performances. But rural life and folklore have just as much influence on my productions as the urban. "

Pieces (selection)

  • A soha vissza nem térő
  • Párhuzamos óra
  • Parasztopera ( Peasant Opera ), 2002
  • Roncsolt Kópia ( Scratched Celluloid ), 2004
  • Népi Rablét ( Common Captivity )
  • Szutyok ( Miststück ), 2010, published in German in Theater der Zeit, issue 3/2011, pp. 50–63. Berlin 2011
  • Titkaink ( Our Secrets ), 2013

Literature on Béla Pintér (selection)

  • Theater der Welt 2010 workbook, edited by Dorte Lena Eilers, Frie Leysen and Christine Peters. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, pp. 123–125
  • Right down to the blood . The author, director and actor Béla Pintér talks to Lena Schneider about pseudo-revolutionary politicians, the shameless reality in his new work Bitch and today's Hungary between fear, provocation and deafness. In: Theater der Zeit, issue 3/2011, pp. 16-17, Berlin 2011
  • Ian Herbert, Nicole Leclercq: World of Theater 2003 . Routledge, London and New York 2003, p. 166 (in English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.newplays.de/index.php?page=parts&id_event_cluster=1006839 ( Memento from July 3, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ http://www.vienna.at/titkaink-bela-pinter-widmet-sich-bei-den-wiener-festwochen-der-paedophilie/3966974
  3. ↑ http://www.pesterlloyd.net/html/1414pinterinterview.html
  4. ↑ Lena Schneider: Ready to jump. But where? A winter trip to Budapest in search of the new Hungary . In: Theater der Zeit issue 3/2011, p. 15
  5. ^ Theater der Welt 2010 workbook, edited by Dorte Lena Eilers, Frie Leysen and Christine Peters. Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2010, p. 123

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personal data
SURNAME Pintér, Béla
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian playwright, actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest