Kirill Semjonowitsch Serebrennikow

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Kirill Serebrennikow (2011)

Kirill Semjonowitsch Serebrennikow ( Russian Кири́лл Семёнович Сере́бренников ; emphasis: Kiríll Semjónowitsch Serébrennikow ; born September 7, 1969 in Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union ) is a Russian theater , opera and film director .

biography

Serebrennikow received an award for the first amateur theater performance he had worked on in school while he was still at school. In 1992 he graduated from the Rostov State University with a degree in physics . For several years he was the director of amateur theater. In 1990 the stage was transformed into a professional one. Since 1998 he has also worked for film. He currently lives and works in Moscow and directs at the Moscow Art Theater .

In 2010 Serebrennikow was the director of the play The Dead Souls (by Nikolai Gogol ) at the Latvian National Theater . The performance, known as the “artist's night”, was awarded the prize for the best performance of the year. In this play all roles were played by nine male actors, Serebrennikov received positive reviews from the critics. In 2012 the director Georg Büchner directed Woyzeck .

Serebrennikow has also produced operas for the Mariinsky Theater and the Bolshoi Theater , where he was also the director and set designer of a ballet. He has also directed at the Komische Oper Berlin and the Stuttgart Opera . Since 2008 he has been a professor at the Moscow Theater School, where he has a class with actors and directors. His productions were presented at the Wiener Festwochen and the Avignon Festival . His films have been shown at the Cannes Film Festival , the Locarno Film Festival , the Rome Film Festival and the Warsaw International Film Festival , where his film Yuri's Day (original title: Yurev den ) won the Grand Prix.

In 2012, Serebrennikov was appointed artistic director of the Moscow avant-garde theater Gogol Center . His intention to film the life of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky failed in autumn 2013 because he was unable to raise sufficient funding for the filming. In addition, the Russian Minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinsky, called for the composer's private life and his "alleged homosexuality" to be left out. According to the state cinema fund, the project simply has no commercial potential. It also lost other sponsors who refused to participate in a "scandalous" film.

In 2017 he developed a ballet about the personality of Rudolf Nureyev at the Bolshoi Theater together with the choreographer Yuri Possochow . The premiere had to be postponed due to protests by the Russian Orthodox Church ; it came about in December 2017, but without Serebrennikow, who was already under house arrest at the time.

In 2018 his feature film Leto (Summer) about the beginning of the career of rock musician and poet Wiktor Zoi was released in cinemas. He was awarded for the soundtrack at the Cannes Film Festival . At the end of 2018, his revolutionary play Barokko premiered in Moscow.

Misappropriation of state funds

In May 2017, Serebrennikov's home and Gogol Center were raided by law enforcement officers in connection with alleged embezzlement at Seventh Studio, Serebrennikov's non-profit organization. Vladimir Urin and Yevgeny Mironov, among others , expressed their support for Serebrennikov in an open letter presented to Vladimir Putin . In June 2017, Serebrennikov even called on the audience to confirm that they had seen the play A Midsummer Night's Dream ; this to put an end to the madness after a state committee accused him of embezzling the 68 million ruble contribution approved for this production.

Serebrennikov was arrested in Russia on August 22, 2017 after his passport had been confiscated.

A declaration of protest initiated by Thomas Ostermeier and Marius von Mayenburg and addressed to Chancellor Angela Merkel , in which they demand the withdrawal of the measures against Serebrennikov, was signed by many cultural workers. Among the artists in solidarity with Serebrennikow are Hollywood actress Cate Blanchett , director Volker Schlöndorff and Russian-German pianist Igor Levit, as well as the Austrian Nobel Prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek and the German actress Nina Hoss . The initiators called on citizens to sign the declaration.

In October 2017, Leonid Nikitinsky interpreted Putin's statements as an indication that an example should be made in this case. At the beginning of December 2017, Marius Ivaškevičius reported on the premiere of Serebrennikov's "Nureyev" at the Bolshoi Theater, which was apparently months late because of Serebrennikov's removal for interrogation, and on the preliminary hearing in court. A few days before the appeal hearing, Serebrennikov's mother died. Serebrennikov was only allowed to see the urn with its ashes.

In 2018 the Zurich Opera House managed to bring out a performance of Mozart's opera Così fan tutte directed by Serebrennikov, even though he was in prison in Russia. Serebrennikow had already done preliminary work in 2016. His assistant director Yevgeny Kulagin acted as co-director and was the intermediary between Zurich and Serebrennikow. With video recordings, Serebrennikow was able to introduce change requests in the development of the staging.

On June 22, 2020, the public prosecutor's office in Moscow demanded six years' imprisonment and a fine of 800,000 rubles (around 10,300 euros) for Serebrennikov for embezzling state funds. On June 26, 2020, he was found guilty of the matter and given a three-year suspended sentence.

Awards

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Homophobia in Russia: Kremlin wants to censor Tchaikovsky film . In: Spiegel-Online . September 19, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Bernd Großheim: Debate about a film project on Tchaikovsky: Russia's fear of the "scandalous" . In: tagesschau.de . October 1, 2013. Archived from the original on October 4, 2013. Retrieved October 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Bolshoi chief defends the removal of the “Nureyev” ballet . In: der Standard.at . July 11, 2017. Retrieved August 22, 2017.
  4. ^ Scandal premiere "Nureyev" in the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow. In: Deutsche Welle . December 9, 2017.
  5. ↑ Brigitte Baronnet: Cannes 2018: Leto récompensé pour sa musique par le prix Cannes soundtrack. In: allocine.fr, May 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kerstin Holm : Let the police sing. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. May 6, 2019, p. 9.
  7. ↑ Director Serebrennikow asks audience for help against authorities. In: aargauerzeitung.ch . 22nd June 2017.
  8. ↑ Wolfgang Höbel: With Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss against Putin's justice. In: SPON . August 27, 2017, accessed June 26, 2020.
  9. ↑ Head of the Gogol Theater arrested In: Zeit Online . August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 23, 2017.
  10. ^ Elfriede Jelinek signed the petition for Serebrennikow. In: orf.at . August 28, 2017, accessed June 26, 2020.
  11. ↑ Online petition. Retrieved September 4, 2017.
  12. ^ Leonid Nikitinsky: On the road with Putin. In: Novaya Gazeta . October 31, 2017.
  13. ↑ Marius Ivaskevicius: Serebrennikov in court. Moscow's glory and horror. In: FAZ . April 7, 2018.
  14. ^ Christian Wildhagen: Interview. "We can't let Serebrennikov down now." In: NZZ . 2nd November 2018.
  15. ↑ Long imprisonment for Kirill Serebrennikow demanded. In: Deutsche Welle . June 22, 2020.
  16. ↑ Russia: suspended sentence for star director Serebrennikow. In: spiegel.de. Retrieved June 26, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Russian director Serebrennikow sentenced to suspended sentence for embezzlement. In: de.sputniknews.com . June 26, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 .
  18. ↑ European Theater Prize to Isabelle Huppert and Jeremy Iron. In: The Standard . October 27, 2017. Retrieved November 29, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Serebrennikow, Kirill Semjonowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Серебренников, Кирилл Семёнович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian theater, opera and film director
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostov-on-Don , Soviet Union