Yevgeny Valeryevich Grishkovets

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Yevgeny Grishkovets (2008)

Yevgeni Grishkovetz ( Russian Евгений Валерьевич Гришковец , scientific. Transliteration Evgenij Valerjevič Griškovec * 17th February 1967 in the Siberian Kemerovo ) is a Russian storytellers, theater director, writer and actor, compared with Dario Fo , who in his own country as well as to international theater festivals such as Edinburgh, Avignon and Vienna celebrated great success. The city ​​of Kaliningrad is the adopted home of Grischkowez, who is known as the “inventor of Russian performance ” .

Life

After completing his military service in the Navy, he studied Russian philology at the Technical University of Kuzbass in Kemerovo. There he founded the Loge theater ensemble in 1990 , with which he developed over 20 pieces of his own in the following years, which the group developed together from conversation and improvisation . In 1998 he created his one-person play How I ate a dog , with which he made a big splash at the NET (New European Theater) international theater festival in Moscow . The following year he presented his new piece Simultaneously at the NET festival with similar success.

Since the 2000/2001 theater season he has performed his plays as a permanent guest performer at the Moscow Theater School of Contemporary Play . At the same time there was a production of his play Notes of a Russian Traveler , directed by Jossif Reichelhaus. In the same year he was awarded the Russian Antibooker Literature Prize for Drama . The jury of the national Russian theater show Golden Mask awarded him the 2000 Innovation Prize , and the group of critics awarded him the Audience Prize for the acting season.

In September 2001 he completed his new play Die Stadt . The premiere took place at the famous Tabakerka , Oleg Tabakov's theater studio in Moscow. In 2002 the world premiere of Dreadnoughts took place in the Moscow in-club OGOROD , again a theater project that went beyond the scope of the usual theater concept in Russia.

Grischkowez has been living in Kaliningrad for a few years: (quote) “... the former Königsberg. I didn't just choose this city to live in by chance, I definitely don't want to move to Moscow. I am a provincial and I cannot cope with the Moscow rhythm. Although all of my work is related to Moscow. The city and the planet tell of life in the big city . Kaliningrad is not a 100% Russian city, pleasant to live in, in my opinion an ideal city among the smaller ones in Russia. Also because it is by the sea. From here I can see my life and work in Moscow from a distance without being an emigrant. "

Pieces (selection) and their world premieres

Dreadnoughts
  • The Planet - radio play by Yevgeny Grischkowez, translated from Russian by Stefan Schmidtke - composition: Tobias Morgenstern - arrangement / direction: Gabriele Bigott - Rundf. Berlin-Brandenburg 2004 - length: 48'46
  • The Planet , 2003
  • Dreadnoughts , 2002
  • Die Stadt (Gorod) by Jewgenij Grischkowez: translated from the Russian by Stefan Schmidtke; Premiere on May 18, 2002 , Theater im Depot / [Ed .: Schauspiel Staatstheater Stuttgart . Ed .: Florian Vogel ...]
  • The city , 2001
  • Russian Traveler's Notes , 2000
  • How I Eat a Dog , 1998

prose

  • The shirt ( Рубашка ), novel, 2004, translated from Russian by Beate Rausch
  • Rivers ( Реки ), Powest , 2005
  • The Plank ( Планка ), Stories, 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Grischkovets, Evgeny Valeryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Griškovec, Evgenij Valerjevič; Гришковец, Евгений Валерьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Kemerovo