László Marton (director)

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László Marton (2003)
Uncle Wanja , Soulpepper Theater Company, 2001, Toronto
Uncle Wanja , Soulpepper Theater Company, 2001, Toronto

László Marton (born January 6, 1943 in Budapest ; † September 12, 2019 ) was a Hungarian theater director and director .

Life

Marton came from an upper-class Hungarian family. His mother Ilona Keresztes had studied at the best hotel management school in Europe at the time, the École hôtelière de Lausanne . The father László Marton was a foreign trade merchant. He counted people like Ferenc Molnár and the Hollywood film director and Golden Globe Award winner Andrew Marton to his extensive family . Another relative, the conductor János Ferencsik , introduced him to the world of opera. Marton attended the Piarist High School in Budapest and studied at the "Academy for Drama and Film Budapest". In 1967 he graduated and had his first theater production at the Vígszínház Theater in Budapest . There he became artistic director in 1987.

Career

Martons international career began in 1974 in the GDR at the German National Theater in Weimar . Since then he has worked on various international theaters, such as the Finnish National Theater , the Actors Theater of Louisville ( Louisville (Kentucky) ), the Habimah (Israeli National Theater), the Barbican Center in London, the Santa Fe Stages in Santa Fe (New Mexico) , in the "Court Theater" in Chicago , in the Abbey Theater in Dublin .

He had his most important international productions with Chekhov's Platonov and Uncle Vanya at the “Soulpepper Theater Company” in Toronto , where he has been an annual guest since 1991. With this theater he also took over Frank McGuinness ' adaptation of Ibsen's Die Wildente from the "Peacock Theater" in Dublin in 2005 . His dance production Össztánc from Vígszínház was invited to Dublin in 2004 for the centenary of the “Abbey Theater”. In 2005 he produced Nora von Ibsen at the "Abbey Theater" in Dublin , also this in an adaptation by McGuinness.

Productions in the Vígszínház

Marton was a regular in-house director. He has staged various younger Hungarian playwrights, newer plays from the Anglo-American world such as Neil Simon's A Strange Couple , as well as classics from Shakespeare to Ibsen and, in September 2009, Mozart's Magic Flute in collaboration with the Hungarian State Opera .

In Germany, Marton directed at the Landestheater Detmold twice with Der Leibgardist (A Testőr) by Ferenc Molnár (1981) and Die Physiker by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1982).

Honors

Marton was an honorary member of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In Toronto he was recognized for his Chekhov productions and in Dublin by the Irish Times for directing The Wild Duck .

Marton received various degrees (2009 Komtur mit Stern) of the Hungarian Order of Merit and in 2003 the Kossuth Prize .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Magyar Színházművészeti lexicon
  2. ↑ see English Wikipedia : Santa Fe Opera
  3. ↑ soulpepper story ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soulpepper.ca
  4. ↑ archive vigszinhaz
  5. ↑ Hungarian State Opera Budapest ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.opera.hu
personal data
SURNAME Marton, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian director
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 2019