Konstantin Arkadyevich Raikin
Konstantin Arkadjewitsch Raikin ( Russian Константин Аркадьевич Райкин ; born July 8, 1950 in Leningrad ) is a Russian cinema and theater actor, director of the Satirikon Theater and son of Arkadi Isaakowitsch Raikin .
Life
Raikin was born in Leningrad in 1950, where he went to school and graduated in biology and physics. He then went to the Boris Shchukin Theater School , which he graduated in 1971. In the same year Galina Woltschek brought him to the Moscow Sovremennik Theater , where he played in 38 productions for over ten years. In 1981 he went to the Leningrad Theater of Miniatures, with which he returned to Moscow in 1982. There he played with his father; When he died in 1987, the theater was renamed "Satirikon Theater", whose direction Konstantin Raikin took over in 1988 and has held since then. In 1992 he was awarded the title of People's Actor of the Russian Federation.
In 2001 he took over the management of the acting course in the school studio of the Chekhov Art Theater in Moscow .
In a 2016 incendiary speech in front of the Congress of the Association of Theater Professionals of Russia, he vehemently took a stand against censorship and the intimidation of artists by conservative and ecclesiastical forces.
Works
- The commander of the submarine "Glücklicher Hecht" (1973)
- Mnogo shuma iz nichego (1973), film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing
- Olga Sergeevna (1975)
- Truffaldino iz Bergamo (1976), film adaptation of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters
- Puss in Boots (1995, dubbing )
- Neudacha Puaro (2002), film adaptation of Agatha Christie's crime novel Alibi
Awards
- 1985: Meritorious Artist of the Russian Federation
- 1996: Golden Mask
- 2000: Order of Merit for the Fatherland
- 2000: Golden Mask
- 2003: Golden Mask
- 2008: Gold mask for his role in King Lear
Web links
- Konstantin Rajkin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Satirikon Theater website (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Request for resistance. A Russian theater director and his fiery speech against censorship. Culture today. Deutschlandfunk, October 25, 2016, 5:35 pm.
- ↑ Konstantin Raikin: "I do not believe that those outraged people known to us are violated" , the speech of October 24, 2016
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raikin, Konstantin Arkadyevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Райкин, Константин Аркадьевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 8, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leningrad |