Yevgeny Bagrationovich Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Vakhtangov

Yevgeny Bagrationowitsch Wachtangow ( Russian Евгений Багратионович Вахтангов ; * February 1 ^July / February 13, 1883 ^greg. In Vladikavkas ; † May 29, 1922 in Moscow ) was a Russian actor and theater director . The Moscow Vakhtangov Theater and the Russian Theater in his hometown of Vladikavkaz were named after him after his death.

Life

Yevgeny Vakhtangov came from a wealthy Armenian- Russian family; his father Bagration Wachtangow was a tobacco manufacturer. In 1903, Vakhtangov began studying science at Moscow University , and later switched to law school.

As early as 1901 he had participated in amateur theater circles as an actor and director in his hometown of Vladikavkaz, where he was under the strong influence of the Moscow Art Theater (MChT, later MChAT). At the same time he wrote his first stories and articles about the theater, which appeared in the Terek newspaper. In 1909 he began training at A. Adaschew's Theater School in Moscow . After graduation, he was accepted into the MChT ensemble in 1911. There he appeared as a staunch advocate of the ideas and the system of Stanislawski and celebrated great success, for example as a performer, sometimes also as a director, in Hauptmann's Friedensfest (1913), Dickens' Das Heimchen am Herd (1914) and Shakespeare's Was ihr wollt (1919) ).

In the years after the October Revolution of 1917, Vakhtangov intensified his directorial work at various theater studios of the MChT / MChAT and ran his own, from which the Moscow theater named after him emerged; he staged plays by Chekhov , Maeterlinck , Strindberg and Gozzi , among others . From 1919 he was also head of the theater department of the People's Commissariat for Education. His work was highly valued by leading figures in the theater scene, such as Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko .

Yevgeny Vakhtangov died of stomach cancer . He is buried in Moscow's Novodevichy Cemetery.

Vakhtangov as a force in Andreev's The Thought (1914)
Memorial plaque at the theater in Vladikavkaz (above; below for Bulgakov )

Works

Writings: records, letters, minutes, notes, edited by Dieter Wardetzky, Henschelverlag Kunst u. Society, 1982

literature

Nikolai Gorchakov: The Vakhtangov Method. The rediscovery of improvisation for the theater , Alexander Verlag 2009, ISBN 3895811920

Web links

Commons : Yevgeny Vakhtangov - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Vakhtangov, Yevgeny Bagrationovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Вахтангов, Евгений Багратионович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	February 13, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vladikavkaz
DATE OF DEATH	May 29, 1922
Place of death	Moscow