Les Kurbas
Les Kurbas ( Ukrainian Лесь Курбас ; full name Oleksandr-Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas [ Олександр-Зенон Степанович Курбас ], actually Janovyč [ Янович ] * 25. February 1887 in Sambir , Austria-Hungary , † 3. November 1937 in Sandarmoch at Medvezhyegorsk , Karelian ASSR ) was a Ukrainian actor and director .
Life
In addition to Vsevolod Meyerhold , Evgeni Wachtangow and a few other directors, he was part of the Soviet theater avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s. From 1907 he studied philosophy and theater studies at the University of Vienna . After completing his studies, he appeared as an actor.
After the February Revolution of 1917 , he reorganized the drama studio he founded by placing more emphasis on style and aesthetics. His idea of a philosophical theater required specially trained actors. When in 1919 the Molodyi Teatr merged with the State Drama Theater to form the Shevchenko Theater of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic , Kurbas became co-director and staged an interpretation of Taras Shevchenko's poem Haidamaky , which was a great success. During the 1920 riots in Kiev , Kurbas organized the Kyidramte touring theater , gave up acting and concentrated on direction and teaching, believing the theater was a powerful political instrument. In 1922 the Berezil Theater , which he transformed, had 400 employees and was considered the best theater in Ukraine. Kurba's plays provoked the Ukrainian government and he moved to Moscow to avoid persecution. He was arrested in 1933 and killed in a mass shooting in 1937 . In his honor, the youth theater founded in Lviv in 1988 was renamed Les Kurbas Theater in 1993.
literature
- Irene Rima Makaryk: Shakespeare in the undiscovered bourn. Les Kurbas, Ukrainian modernism, and early Soviet cultural politics. University of Toronto Press, Toronto Buffalo 2004, ISBN 0-8020-8849-X
- Неллі Миколаївна Корнієнко: Лесь Курбас. Репетиція майбутнього. (“Dress rehearsal for the future”; biography in Ukrainian), Либідь, Київ 2007, ISBN 978-966-06-0451-3
- Василь Степанович Василько: Лесь Курбас. Спогади сучасників. (“Memories of a Contemporary”), Мистецтво, Київ 1969
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Shane Flynn: Modern Times - The 20th Century ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , April 9, 2009
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| SURNAME | Kurbas, Les |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Курбас, Олександр-Зенон Степанович; Janovyč, Oleksandr Stepanovyč (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian director and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1887 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sambir , Austria-Hungary |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 3, 1937 |
| Place of death | Sandarmoch near Medvezhyegorsk , Karelian ASSR |