Gad Kaynar

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Gad Kaynar on January 29, 2010 in Bad Kissingen as a speaker at the "Jewish Culture Days"

Gad Kaynar , originally Kissinger (born June 26, 1947 in Tel Aviv , Israel ) is an Israeli actor, dramaturge , university professor , translator, author and editor .

Life

He is the son of Oda Scheuer and Ernst Kissinger (1910–1994), co-owner of his parents' clothing store in his native Bad Kissingen . After the seizure of power of the Nazis emigrated Ernst Kissinger on July 4, 1937, Trieste ( Italy ) to Israel and built in Tel Aviv a new life as a textile merchant on. Kaynar's paternal grandparents only left Bad Kissingen after the November pogroms of 1938 . The Kissinger family is related to the former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger .

Kaynar is Professor of Theater Studies at Tel Aviv University and Head of the Directing , Dramaturgy and Writing Section . He is also head of the university theater. He is also visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the "Institute for Theater Studies Munich" (TWM) at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .

He has translated over 50 plays from German, Swedish and Norwegian into the Hebrew language . He is considered an expert on the works of August Strindberg and Henrik Ibsen , of which he has so far translated nine or three plays from the original. He has also translated three Ibsen works from German into Hebrew, as well as works by Ingmar Bergman , Jon Fosse , Gotthold Ephraim Lessing , Patrick Süskind and Igor Bauersima .

Kaynar is the author and editor of numerous books on theater and dramaturgy. For the past three decades, Kaynar has been the dramaturge at the Israeli Habimah National Theater , the Cameri Theater in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Khan Theater . He also works as an actor and director himself and has so far published three volumes of his own poems.

He is general secretary of the Israeli section of the " International Theater Institute " (ITI).

Kaynar is married to Ahuva Jablonka and has three children Or , Noam and Matan .

Awards

On June 10, 2008, Kaynar was awarded the Norwegian Order of Merit by King Harald V of Norway for the translation of Henrik Ibsen's works into Hebrew , which was presented to him on January 16, 2009 in the Norwegian Embassy in Israel by Ambassador Jakken Biørn Lian .

literature

  • Who's who in Israel and Jewish personalities from all over the world , Volume 2001–2002, Verlag Bronfman, 1985, page 178 ( excerpt )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Beck, Rudolf Walter: Jüdisches Leben in Bad Kissingen , page 142, Stadt Bad Kissingen (ed.), Rötter Druck und Verlag, Bad Neustadt 1990.
  2. ↑ Kaynar's list of ancestors ( memento of the original from January 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / members.fortunecity.co.uk
  3. ↑ http://www.norway.org.il/News_and_events/culture/gad_kaynar_appointed_officer_of_the_royal_norwegian_order_of_merit/ ( Memento of May 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Kaynar, Gad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kissinger, Gad
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Israeli dramaturge, director, author, translator and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Tel Aviv , Israel