Geirun Tino

Geirun Tino

Geirun Tino in the hall of the Pygmalion Theater Vienna

Geirun Tino (born November 19, 1950 in Brăila , Romania ) is an Austrian theater director , director , actor , dramaturge and translator .

Life

Geirun Tino studied at the Academy for Theater and Film in Bucharest , Romania, and graduated in 1974 as a theater director.

Between 1974 and 1985, Geirun Tino staged more than 30 productions in Romanian city theaters - mainly in Bucharest - mainly classical authors such as William Shakespeare , Anton Chekhov , Henrik Ibsen , but also Ion Luca Caragiale , Albert Camus , Jos Vandeloo , E. Schwarz , T. Popescu, Radu F. Alexandru , Ruzzante , Marin Sorescu , Ştefan Oprea, Michel de Ghelderode and others. Several performances have received state awards (the production of “Pourquoi dors-tu ma chère” by the Belgian author Jos Vandeloo received the award as “Best European production of this piece “1982). Six productions were politically banned.

From 1982 to 1984 he was artistic director of the Bacau City Theater.

In 1985 he was banned from working in Romania and fled to Austria.

In 1989 he founded the Pygmalion drama school in Vienna . Since then he has been teaching directing and acting.

In 1995 he founded the Pygmalion Theater Vienna on Alser Strasse in the 8th district of Josefstadt .

From 1998 to 2000 Geirun Tino took over a lectureship in directing at the Athanor Academy for the Performing Arts in Burghausen.

From 1998 to 2008 he was artistic advisor to the Vienna District Festival for the Balkans.

In 2003 he initiated and directed the festival “The Days of Austrian Drama” in Bucharest.

Since 2010 he has been a translator and representative for Romania at Thomas Sessler Verlag in Vienna .

He has staged at the Pygmalion Theater Vienna, at the “Nottara” theater in Bucharest, at the “Fani Tardini” Galați theater and at the theater ship at the Mäuseturm Hamburg .

Awards

• 1989: Medal of Honor “500 Years of Romanian Theater” for his theatrical work
• 2003: First prize at the International Theater Festival in Rosario , Argentina , for the staging of the play Das Schloss by Franz Kafka
• 2004: First prize at the International Theater Festival in Alexandria , Egypt , for the staging of the play Das Schloss by Franz Kafka
• 2005: Awarded the Viennese “Signum Pulchrarum Artium” award for exceptional achievements in the arts
• 2012: Award of the Golden Decoration of Honor for Services to the State of Vienna for Art and Culture

Productions (excerpt)

• America by Franz Kafka
• The transformation of Franz Kafka
• Down with the weapons! by Bertha von Suttner
• Notes of a Madman by Nikolai Gogol
• The misconception of Albert Camus
• The Satan Game by the Divine Marquis by Albert Drach
• The castle of Franz Kafka
• The Marilyn Monroe Trial by Roland Baumgartner
• The trial of Franz Kafka
• The Player by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• The Tiger by Murray Schisgal
• The crook of Mircea M. Ionescu
• The island of Athol Fugard
• The madwoman of Chaillot by Jean Giraudoux
• The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• The chess novella by Stefan Zweig
• The lesson of Eugène Ionesco
• The persecution and murder of Jean Paul Marat portrayed by the acting group of the Charenton hospice under the guidance of Mr. de Sade by Peter Weiss
• A report for an academy by Franz Kafka
• A conversation in the Stein house about the absent Herr von Goethe by Peter Hacks
• Miss Julie by August Strindberg
• Closed society of Jean-Paul Sartre
• Hundertwasser! The Play of Songs by Roland Baumgartner
• Lola Blau by Georg Kreisler
• Pouf by Gabriel Barylli
• Sisi. The soul of an empress by Roland Baumgartner
• Woyzeck by Georg Büchner

Dramatizations

• America by Franz Kafka
• The castle of Franz Kafka
• The trial of Franz Kafka
• The chess novella by Stefan Zweig
• The transformation of Franz Kafka
• A report for an academy by Franz Kafka

Translations

Translations into Romanian

• The power of habit (" Puterea obisnuintei ") by Thomas Bernhard
• The penal colony (" Colonia penitenciară ") of Franz Kafka
• Puff (" Bordel ") by Gabriel Barylli
• Reigen (" Hora iubirilor ") by Arthur Schnitzler
• Death and the devil (" Diavolul și moartea ") by Peter Turrini

Translations into German

• The crook (" Puşlamaua de la etajul 13 ") by Mircea M. Ionescu

literature

• The Romanian theater after 1989. Its relations to the German-speaking area . Frank & Timme. Berlin 2011. ISBN 978-3-86596-290-4

Web links

Commons : Geirun Tino  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cultural soulmates in matters of theater and direction. Wiener Zeitung, accessed on November 18, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Golden award for Angelica Schütz and Geirun Tino. City hall correspondence, accessed on November 18, 2013 .