Jorge Silva Melo
Jorge Silva Melo (born August 7, 1948 in Lisbon ) is a Portuguese theater director , actor , critic , translator and author as well as a director, critic and actor of Portuguese films .
Life
During his philology studies at the University of Lisbon (degree in Romance languages ) he began to be interested in film and theater. He became a film critic between 1966 and 1969 a. a. for the daily newspaper A Capital and the literary and art magazine Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias . In 1968 he was assistant to João César Monteiro in his film about Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen . He had his first acting role in António José da Silvas O Anfitrião for the theater company Grupe Cénico de Letras .
From 1969 to 1970 he went to the London Film School in England with a grant from the Gulbenkian Foundation . He then worked as an assistant director for various films, including some Novo Cinema films such as Perdido por Cem by António-Pedro Vasconcelos and Brandos Costumes by Alberto Seixas Santos . Then he turned increasingly to the theater. In 1973 he founded the Teatro Cornucópia with Luís Miguel Cintra , which quickly rose to become one of the most influential theaters in the country. His first acting role there was Molières O Misantropo ( The Misanthrope ), directed by Luis Miguel Cintra. In 1974 he played there in two plays by Marivaux , which were his first own productions. He then staged other plays there, such as Terror e Miséria no III.Reich ( Fear and Misery of the Third Reich ) by Bertolt Brecht , Pequenos Burgueses ( The Petty Bourgeois ) by Gorki , Büchner's Woyzeck , Ah Kiu by Jean Jourdheuil and B. Chartreux and several pieces by Franz Xaver Kroetz , such as Alta Áustria (Upper Austria) in 1977 and Música Para Si (request concert) in 1978. His E haben se pode exterminá-lo? The titled staging of a play based on " Karl Valentin " sketches made a broad audience in Portugal familiar with the work of the Munich native in 1979 and was televised as a multi-part series in a directorial work by him and Solveig Nordlund .
Melo left the Teatro Cornucópia in 1979. He went to Berlin, to the Schaubühne , where he worked from 1980 to 1981 a. a. worked with Peter Stein at Orestie and with Michael König at Woyzeck . He then went to Milan, where he worked with Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in his production of Brecht's The Good Man of Sezuan and then assisted in the production of the opera The Marriage of Figaro at La Scala . After he had made a film in between, for which he was nominated for a Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1985 , he went to France, where he worked with Jean Jourdheuil and Jean-François Peyret , including directing Pietro Aretino in 1986 and in 1988 the staging of Heiner Müller works ( La route des chars ). In 1988, he played for a long time again even in his production of Heiner Müller's Quartet and Medea material , at the theater festival acarte 88 .
From 1989 he worked a. a. as a translator and screenwriter for young directors, also made a film and directed at the theater (including Greensleeves by Joyce Carol Oates , 1994 at the Teatro Malaposta ). In 1993, based on Jules Verne's novel The Carpathian Castle , he wrote the libretto for an opera that premiered at the Montpellier Opera in the same year , with music by Philippe Hersant . In 1995 he chaired a seminar at the ACARTE theater festival, from which the text António, um Rapaz de Lisboa (Eng .: Antonio, a boy from Lisbon) was created. Its production was a great success and was considered groundbreaking for the Portuguese theater of the time. The play was re-performed several times and this work gave rise to the Artistas Unidos (German: United Artists) initiative , an agency in which Melo developed enormous energy and brought a series of pieces to the stage that opened up new opportunities for young actors. At first rather loosely organized, the association moved into its own rooms in 2000 (the former rooms of the newspaper A Capital ) and resided in the Teatro Taborda since August 2002 . Based on plays by Shakespeare, Kleist, Goethe and by himself, he staged a large number of performances in Portugal at various theaters and theater festivals (Cacilhas 1997, Almada 1998), and he took part in 1998 with a staged reading of Brecht's texts at Convento do Carmo took part in the international Brecht Colloquium in Évora . A large number of other productions and other own productions followed (including Sarah Kane , Harold Pinter , Hermann Melville , Arne Sierens , Heiner Müller, Spiro Scimone ). He was very rarely on stage himself.
He has translated numerous books and plays into Portuguese (including Harold Pinter, Cervantes , Maxim Gorki, Willy Russel , Brecht, Spiro Scimone, Carlo Goldoni , Luigi Pirandello , Oscar Wilde , Georg Büchner, Lovecraft , Michelangelo Antonioni , Pier Paolo Pasolini , and Heiner Müller ). As a film director he seldom emerged, with a few documentaries about visual artists and occasionally also feature films, and his appearances as an actor were generally very rare. Since then, his main activity has been that of the director of the Artistas Unidos and their stagings and productions.
Filmography (selection)
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bibliography
- António, To Rapaz de Lisboa. Cotovia, Lisbon 1996, ISBN 972-8028-48-2 .
- Paulo Rocha -o Rio do Ouro. Cinemateca Portuguesa , Lisbon 1996, ISBN 972-619-102-5 .
- O Fim ou Tende Misericórdia de Nós. Cotovia, Lisbon 1997, ISBN 972-8423-02-0 .
- Prometeu - Rascunhos. & Etc., Lisbon 1997, OCLC 55883084 .
- José Maria Vieira Mendes, Manuel Wiborg, Jorge Silva Melo: Três Peças Breves. Cotovia, Lisbon 1999, ISBN 972-8423-71-3 .
- O Navio dos Negros. Cotovia, Lisbon 2001, ISBN 972-795-032-9 .
- Deixar a Vida. Cotovia, Lisbon 2002, ISBN 972-795-038-8 .
- Século Passado. Cotovia, Lisbon 2007, ISBN 978-972-795-185-7 .
- Fala da criada dos Noailles que no fim de contas vamos descobrir chamar-se também Séverine numa noite do inverno de 1975, em Hyères. Cotovia, Lisbon 2007, ISBN 978-972-795-218-2 .
- Rei Édipo. Bico do Mato, Belo Horizonte, 2010, ISBN 978-989-8349-03-3 .
- Da República e das Gentes. Bicho do Mato, Belo Horizonte, 2011, ISBN 978-989-8349-17-0 .
Web links
- Jorge Silva Melo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about Jorge Silva Melo in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jorge Silva Melo at the Artistas Unidos
literature
- Jorge Leitão Ramos : Dicionário do Cinema Português 1989-2003 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-1763-7 .
- Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do Cinema Português 1962–1988 Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, ISBN 972-21-0446-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.imdb.com , accessed July 29, 2012
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1962–1988. 1st edition. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 1989, pp. 254ff.
- ↑ Jorge Leitão Ramos: Dicionário do cinema português 1989 - 2003., 1st edition. Editorial Caminho, Lisbon 2005, p. 378ff.
- ↑ www.artistasunidos.pt , accessed on July 29, 2012
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| SURNAME | Melo, Jorge Silva |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mello, Jorge Freitas e Silva (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese director, actor, screenwriter and critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lisbon , Portugal |