Gheorghe Ciprian
Gheorghe Ciprian , actually George Constantinescu , also: George Ciprian , (born June 5, 1883 in Buzău , † April 7, 1968 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian playwright .
Ciprian came from a Greek family of bakers and soon moved to Bucharest with his mother . At the Gheorghe Lazar School there , he met the future futurist Vasile Voiculescu and the writer of absurd prose, Urmuz , who later became the pioneer of the Romanian avant-garde. He then studied at the Bucharest Conservatory under Constantin Nottara . In 1907 he made his theatrical debut at the Craiova National Theater .
His first self-written piece Omul cu mârțoaga (in German: The man and his horse ) had a successful premiere in 1927. His probably best-known piece Capul de rățoi (premiere 1940, in German: The Drake's Head) is inspired by his friendship with Urmuz. Due to its absurd humor and its attacks on the bourgeois established, this piece can be assigned to the Romanian avant-garde and is considered an early example of absurd theater , a form of theater with which Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett later became famous. At the end of his life he published an autobiography, Măscărici și Mâzgălici , in which, according to his own statements, he used, among other things, different text versions of Urmuz.
The theater in his hometown of Buzau bears his name in his honor.
literature
- Gheorghe Ciprian: The Drake's Head . In: Irina Weigl (ed.): Romanian pieces . Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1977, (pp. 5–122).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ciprian, Gheorghe |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Constantinescu, George; Ciprian, George |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian playwright |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 5, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buzau |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1968 |
| Place of death | Bucharest |