Giorgio Pressburger

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Giorgio Pressburger (2001)

Giorgio Pressburger (born April 21, 1937 in Budapest , Hungary as György Pressburger ; died October 5, 2017 in Trieste , Italy ) was an Italian theater director and author of Hungarian origin.

life and career

As a child, Pressburger survived the Holocaust in the German-occupied Hungary. In 1956, after the Hungarian uprising and the Soviet invasion, he and his brother fled from his home country to Italy, where he took courses at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome and finally graduated in directing. From 1962 he made a name for himself as a stage director of plays by historical and contemporary dramatists, from Goldoni to Pasolini , from Aeschylus to Bohumil Hrabal . He also presented his own pieces to the audience. In addition to the musical theater, Pressburger was also active as a radio play and television director. He wrote novels and worked as a lecturer in directing at the “Accademia” and as director of the “Istituto Italiano di Cultura” in Budapest. In 1981 he brought the Pasolini piece Calderón to the screen in a cinema version and in 2011 he directed Dietro il buio .

Pressburger ran in the European elections in 2009 as a candidate for Italia dei Valori . In addition to Hungarian and Italian, he also spoke German, French, English, Russian and Slovenian.

He has been awarded several prizes for his literary work.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1981: Calderón
  • 2011: Dietro il buio

Books (selection)

  • with Nicola Pressburger: Storie dell 'ottavo distretto
    • The tablets of the law of Selma Grün. Stories from the eighth district . Translation Michaela Wunderle. Frankfurt am Main: Verl. New Critique, 1989
  • with Nicola Pressburger: L 'elefante verde
    • The green elephant . Translation Michaela Wunderle. Frankfurt am Main: Verl. New Critique, 1990
  • La legge degli spazi bianchi
    • The law of the white spaces . Translation Michaela Wunderle. Frankfurt am Main: Verl. New Critique, 1994
  • Denti e spie .
    • Teeth and spies . Translation by Ulrich Hartmann. Freiburg: Beck and Glückler, 1995
  • I due gemelli
    • The two twins: Roman . Translation by Christiane von Bechtolsheim. Bergisch Gladbach: Ed. Lübbe, 1998

literature

  • Article Giorgio Pressburger in: Gaetana Marrone (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Volume 2, pp. 1499f., Routledge, New York 2007, ISBN 1579583903 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paolo di Stefano: Morto Giorgio Pressburger sguardo dolce e inquieto . Corriere della Sera , October 5, 2017, accessed October 9, 2017 (Italian).
  2. ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Gremese Editore, Rome 2002, p. 346
personal data
SURNAME Pressburger, Giorgio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pressburger, György (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theater director and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest , Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2017
Place of death Trieste , Italy