Davide Carnevali

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Davide Carnevali (* 1981 in Milan ) is an Italian, internationally active playwright , theater scholar, journalist and translator .

Life

After postgraduate studies in theater studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and a series of productions of his texts in alternative theaters in Milan at the beginning of the 2000s, Carnevali had his international breakthrough with Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin ( variations on the Kraepelin model ). In 2009 the text received the “Theatertext als Hörspiel” award from the Stückemarkt at the Berlin Theatertreffen , to which Carnevali was the first Italian author to be invited. In the same year the play also received the prestigious Italian theater award “Marisa Fabbri at the Premio Riccione” and in 2012 the French award “Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre”. In 2011 it was played in off-theaters and in the Teatro Nacional Cervantes in Buenos Aires ; in France 2012 at the Théâtre National Populaire de Lyon; in the same year in Spain in the Sala Beckett in Barcelona. In 2013 it was produced by the Estonian State Theater Eesti Dramateater and in 2015 by the Romanian National Theater Iasi.

In 2011 Carnevali's text Sweet Home Europa premiered at the Schauspielhaus Bochum and - like variations on the Kraepelin model - was produced as a radio play by Deutschlandfunk Kultur ; there were four other productions in Germany . The first performance of the piece in Italy took place in 2015 at the Teatro Stabile di Roma. During these years the text was also shown in the off-theaters of Buenos Aires and in Lisbon in 2018 in a production of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria. In France, the text was presented in a working version at the Théâtre de la Ville and at the Comédie-Française in Paris .

In the anniversary year 2013 Carnevali was invited again to the Theatertreffen Stückemarkt; in the same year he won the “Premio Riccione per il Teatro”, the most important Italian playwright's prize, with his piece Ritratto di donna araba che guarda il mare ( Arab woman looking at the sea ).

In 2018 Carnevali staged his music theater piece A portrait of the artist al Toter , about the memory and story of two musicians, victims of the Argentine military dictatorship and Nazi barbarism, at the Unter den Linden State Opera and the Schwere Reiter Theater in Munich .

Carnevali's works have been presented at numerous international festivals and translated into German, Catalan, Estonian, French, Greek, English, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Hungarian. His pieces were u. a. Performed in the following theaters: Center Dramatique de Nancy, Eesti Dramateater, ERT Emilia Romagna Teatri, Piccolo Teatro di Milano , Schauspielhaus Bochum, Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, Teatro Nacional de Portugal, Teatro di Roma, Teatro Franco Parenti, Teatro Stabile di Torino, Teatrul Nationali Iasi, Théâtre National Populaire de Lyon.

In 2018, Davide Carnevali was awarded the very important “Hystrio alla Drammaturgia” prize in Italy for his work as an author. In Italy his pieces were published by Einaudi , in France by Actes Sud .

In Germany, his texts are translated by Sabine Heymann and distributed by Rowohlt Verlag .

German productions

  • 2012: Sweet Home Europe , WP: Bochum, Schauspielhaus. Director: Jasna Miletić
  • 2015: Sweet Home Europe , WP: Erlangen , Das Theater Erlangen . Director: Paul Georg Dittrich
  • 2015: Sweet Home Europe , WP: Kaiserslautern , Pfalztheater . Directed by Alexander Ratter
  • 2016: Sweet Home Europe , WP: Berlin , Vaganten stage . Director: Stefan Lochau
  • 2018: A portrait of the artist al Toter , WP: Munich, Schwere Reiter. Director: Davide Carnevali

Radio plays

  • 2011: Variations on the Kraepelin model . Director: Ulrike Brinkmann (Deutschlandradio Kultur). With: Jürgen Holtz
  • 2012: Sweet Home Europe . Director: Giuseppe Maio (Deutschlandradio Kultur)

honors and awards

  • 2007: Finalist Premio Tondelli, with Saccarina
  • 2009: Marisa Fabbri Prize at the Premio Riccione per il Teatro, for Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin
  • 2009: Prize Theatertext as a radio play at the Stückemarkt of the Berlin Theatertreffen, for Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin
  • 2009: Premio Sassetti Cultura Teatro, for Calciobalilla
  • 2011: Finalist Premio Riccione per il Teatro, with Sweet Home Europe
  • 2011: Prize Borrello alla nuova drammaturgia, for Come fu che in Italia scoppiò la rivoluzione ma nessuno se ne accorse
  • 2012: Prize of the Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre, for Variazioni sul modello di Kraepelin
  • 2013: Prize Riccione per il Teatro, for Ritratto di donna araba che guarda il mare
  • 2016: Special mention by the jury of the Premio Platea, for Menelao
  • 2018: Hystrio alla Drammaturgia Prize.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: Berliner Festspiele - Theatertreffen: Theatertreffen-Chronik 1964-2018. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Palmarès . In: Journées de Lyon des Auteurs de Théâtre . January 20, 2013 ( auteursdetheatre.org [accessed August 17, 2018]).
  3. ^ Davide Carnevali vince il 52 ° Premio Riccione per il Teatro. Retrieved August 17, 2018 (Italian).
  4. ↑ A portrait of the artist as dead | State Opera Berlin. Retrieved August 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Premio Hystrio. Retrieved August 17, 2018 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Carnevali, Davide
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian playwright, theater scholar, journalist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan