Ida Jarcsek-Gaza

Ida Jarcsek-Gaza (* 1947 in Timișoara ( German  Timişoara ), Kingdom of Romania ) is an actress and former director (2003-2007) of the German State Theater Timişoara (DSTT). From 1992 until her appointment as director of the DSTT in 2003, she held the chair in the department of drama in German at the music faculty of the Western University of Timişoara .

Life

German State Theater Timisoara

actress

Ida Jarcsek was born in Timișoara, Banat in 1947 . She studied acting at the National University of Theater and Film Arts "Ion Luca Caragiale" in Bucharest . Since graduating from the German department of the Bucharest Theater and Film Academy, she has been playing at the German State Theater Timişoara, where she made her debut on November 11, 1970 as Clarisse in Goldoni's Servant of Two Gentlemen .

She celebrated her first success as Gretchen in Goethe's Urfaust (1973). Other leading roles she embodied were: Iphigenie in Goethe's stage play Iphigenie auf Tauris (1982), Yvette in Brecht's mother Courage and her children (1988), Klytämnestra, Katharina Luther and Laura in Brückner's play "Unholde Redener Unsehaltener Frauen" (1990) , Bernarda Alba in Lorca's Bernarda Alba's house (1996), Winnie in Beckett's Happy Days (1997) Irina Arkadina in Chekhov's drama The Seagull (1998), Daja in Lessing's Nathan the Wise (2000), Mary Tyrone in O'Neill's play A Long Day's Journey into the Night (2001).

After Ida Gaza had already shone as Ammerich in the dramatization of Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn's novel "Meister Jakob und seine Kinder" (1978), she received two sisters for Hans Kehrer's dialect . A Swabian Passion at the State Festival in Sfântu Gheorghe the award for the best artistic achievement (1980). With this piece, which deals with the deportation of Romanian Germans to the Soviet Union in January 1945, she and her sister Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu toured Germany in 1991. It was undoubtedly a high point in her acting career.

As Theresia Steingasser, a paradigmatic figure in the Banat story, she was a guarantor of considerable representational expressiveness in monodramas, for which she received numerous prizes.

After the political change in Romania, Ida Gaza and her sister Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu performed for the first time in front of a German audience. In April 1991 the DSTT was represented at the European Culture Days in Karlsruhe . Peter Patzak's literary film adaptation "Im Kreis der Iris" was broadcast on April 6, 1993 on ZDF . The performance of the play "Two Sisters" by Hans Kehrer was filmed by Adrian Drăguşin in 1998 for Romanian television.

Director and professor

Ida Gaza directed the poetry evening of her sister Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu, which combined German Romanian and Hungarian verses, for the first time in 1981. In Christine Brückner's “Love Has a New Name” (1988), Ida Gaza was both an actress and a game director and the fairy tale games Hans im Glück (1989) and Max and Moritz (1990) were also created under her direction.

In 1992 Ida Jarcsek-Gaza founded the German Department of Dramatic Arts at the Music Academy of the West University of Timişoara, with the aim of training young people for the German state theater. The institution struggled with the increase in artistic staff as early as the 1980s. The main reason was the massive emigration of the Banat Swabians , as a result of which the DSTT not only lost its actors, but also its audience. Today the ensemble consists mainly of former graduates of the German drama department.

From 1992 directing became one of the most important activities of the professor, Ida Gaza, who taught in the newly founded German drama class of the Faculty of Music and Drama of the Western University of Timisoara. The productions of these classes have received many awards. Horváth's “Don Juan Comes from the War” was the first student work in 1996 to be included in the DSTT's program.

Until her appointment as director of the DSTT on September 1, 2003, Ida Gaza was the head of the Department of Acting in German at the Music Faculty of the Western University of Timişoara.

Intendant

After 1977, as a result of the agreement between Chancellor Helmut Schmidt and President Nicolae Ceaușescu , the Banat Swabians began to emigrate to the Federal Republic of Germany . Ida Jarcsek-Gaza, like her sister Ildikó Jarcsek-Zamfirescu in the 1980s and early 1990s, had to struggle with the ensuing decline in audience and actors as director of the 2000s.

From September 2003 to October 2007 she was artistic director of the German State Theater Timişoara. In the four seasons of its tenure, the DSTT produced nationally recognized productions such as “King Cymbelin”, “Fire Face”, The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco , The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht , The Judgment by Franz Kafka , and also highly valued studio works.

Particular attention was paid to the new drama, the expansion of contacts to artists and institutions from the German-speaking area as well as the stronger supra-regional broad impact of the DSTT. The house made regular guest appearances in the capital Bucharest and in almost all areas with a German-speaking population as well as in Germany, Hungary, Austria and Croatia . The increasing visibility of the German State Theater Timişoara has also been confirmed by repeated invitations to renowned festivals such as the National Theater Festival in Bucharest, the International Theater Festival in Sibiu , the International Shakespeare Festival in Craiova .

The support from the Stuttgart Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations enabled the guest directors from Germany and Austria to prepare sophisticated productions, such as Schiller's Bride of Messina or Greig's “The Last Message of the Cosmonaut”. A partnership with the Badische Landesbühne Bruchsal , for which the Baden-Württemberg Interior Minister Heribert Rech advocated, came into being from 2005.

Prices

During her acting career, Ida Gaza received several awards:

• 1980 Main Prize at the Festival of Minority Theater in Sfântu Gheorghe
• 1981 Actor Award at the Kurztheaterfestival Großwardein , for her role in "The Man as Dog" by Osvaldo Dragún
• 1991 Actor Award at the Kurztheaterfestival Großwardein, for her roles from "Unholde speeches of angry women" by Christine Brückner
• 1992 Actor Award at the Bacau Festival for her role in “And always Medea” (Hungarian Medea) by Göncz Arpád
• 1999 Actor Award at the International Festival for Studio Theater for her role in "Happy Days" by Samuel Beckett
• 2000 Stefan Jäger honorary diploma and medal for special merits in promoting Romanian-German theater
• 2002 Honorary Diploma of the County Council for Merit in Cultural Activities of the Timiș County

literature

• Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3643114136

Web links

• nauy.de , Ida Jarcsek-Gaza

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Horst Fassel : The German State Theater Timisoara (1953-2003). From national identity bearer to experimental theater. Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3643114136
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} deutschestheater.ro , Ida Gaza
3. ↑ funkforum.net ( Memento of the original dated December 6, 2014 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. , Robert Tari : 20 years of German acting studies in Timisoara , in Funk Forum, Timișoara, October 12, 2012