Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov

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Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov ( Russian Юрий Петрович Любимов ; often listed as Yu. Lyubimov , born September 30, 1917 in Yaroslavl ; † October 5, 2014 in Moscow ) was a Russian actor and director. He founded the Taganka Theater .

Life

Yuri Petrovich Lyubimow was born in Yaroslavl, a provincial town northeast of Moscow, as the son of a trader and a teacher. Lyubimov studied in the studio of the Vakhtangov Theater until 1940 , where he already appeared in various roles as a student. After the end of the Second World War he worked again at the Vakhtangov Theater. In 1946 he played Friday in the Russian film version of Robinson Crusoe . In the fifties he started working as a director too. In the early 1960s he worked at the Pushkin Theater (now the Alexandrinsky Theater ). In 1964 he became chief director at the Moscow Drama and Comedy Theater. In 1965 Lyubimov founded the Theater an der Taganka, which achieved world fame under his leadership. Lyubimow was based on the aesthetics of Bertolt Brecht and was in the tradition of the theater of Vsevolod Emiljewitsch Meyerhold . His theater work was characterized by poetry, visual power, joy in playing and imagination. In particular, in the collaboration with the actor and songwriter Vladimir Semjonowitsch Vysotsky , productions were created that became known far beyond the Soviet Union. Lyubimov discovered Vysotsky's acting talent and promoted him, whom American journalists called the " Bob Dylan of the Soviet Union". Vysotsky played the title role in Lyubimov's 1971 production of Hamlet, which has become legendary .

In 1975 Lyubimov staged the world premiere of Al gran sole carico d'amore by Luigi Nono at the Scala in Milan , a music theater work on the libretto of which he had worked. Claudio Abbado conducted it . In 1977 he brought Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita to the stage of the Taganka Theater in his own adaptation.

After Vysotsky's death in 1980, Lyubimov fought with the Soviet authorities and arranged for an appropriate memorial service for his protagonist. In 1982 his production of Boris Godunov (Mussorgsky) was banned because of its current conceptual allusions. In March 1984 he was dismissed as head of the Taganka Theater; the expatriation took place in July. Lyubimov went abroad and directed a. a. at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden and at the Opéra Garnier in Paris. Ingmar Bergman brought him to the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm. In 1988 Lyubimov accepted Israeli citizenship. In 1989, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Lyubimov returned to the Taganka Theater. The charisma that his theater had in the times of the Soviet Union, however, could not be regained. Disputes between Lyubimov and part of the ensemble even called the existence of the theater into question in the early 1990s. Lyubimov increasingly staged operas, including Prince Igor at the Moscow Bolshoi Theater and Eugene Onegin at the Zurich Opera House . From 1994 to 1998 Lyubimow was chief director of the Bonn Opera . The director died on October 5, 2014 in a Moscow hospital.

Theater works

  • Brecht: The Good Man of Sezuan (1964)
  • Reed / Lyubimow: Ten days that shook the world
  • Gorky: The mother
  • Molière: Tartuff
  • Wassiljew: It's Still Silent at Dawn (1972)
  • Bulgakow / Lyubimow: The master and Margarita
  • Borodin: Prince Igor (opera)

Movies

  • 1946: Robinson Kruso
  • 1948: Blue Paths (Golubye dorogi)
  • 1949: The world should blossom (Michurin)
  • 1953: Song of Homeland (composer Glinka )
  • 1953: WG Belinski ( Belinski )
  • 1963: Cain XVIII

Honors

Interviews

  • Andreas Lorenz, Fritz Rumler: "The crocodile weeps and eats". The exiled Russian director and theater director Yuri Lyubimov talks about his work . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1984, pp. 240-248 ( Online - Oct. 15, 1984 ).
  • A theater cannot be conquered by force . The director Jurij Lyubimow in conversation with Roman Dolschansky. In: Theater der Zeit, issue 5/1999, insert pp. 25-26. Berlin 1999
  • Dagmar Mammitzsch: Conversations with Yuri Lyubimow . Theater der Zeit 4/1991 p. 4, Berlin 1991

literature

  • Yuri Lyubimow: Algebra of Harmony . In: Joachim Fiebach: Manifestos of European theater. Grotowski to Schleef Verlag Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2003. ISBN 978-3-934344-17-4 , pp. 168–178

Web links

Commons : Yuri Lyubimov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Christoph Trilse, Klaus Hammer, Rolf Kabel: Theater Lexikon. Henschelverlag Berlin 1977, p. 338
  2. ↑ a b c Tim Neshitow: The Creator . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of October 7, 2014, p. 12
  3. ↑ Andreas Lorenz, Fritz Rumler: "The crocodile weeps and eats". The exiled Russian director and theater director Yuri Lyubimov talks about his work . In: Der Spiegel . No. 42 , 1984, pp. 240-248 ( Online - Oct. 15, 1984 ).
  4. ↑ a b C. Bernd Sucher: Theater Lexicon. Deutscher Taschenbuchverlag Munich 1996. P. 289 ISBN 3-423-03323-1
  5. ↑ http://nachtkritik.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10081:2014-10-05-15-37-22&catid=126:mektiven-k&Itemid=100089 , accessed on October 8, 2014
  6. ↑ Office of the Federal President
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Lyubimov, Yuri Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Любимов, Юрий Петрович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Yaroslavl
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 2014
Place of death Moscow