Liviu Ciulei

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Liviu Ciulei (born July 7, 1923 in Bucharest , † October 24, 2011 in Munich , Germany ) was a Romanian actor , film director , set designer , theater director and director .

Live and act

Ciulei graduated from the Conservatorul de Artǎ Dramaticǎ in Bucharest in 1946 . He made his debut in 1946 as Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Teatrul Odeon. At the same time he studied architecture at the University of Bucharest until 1949 .

In 1948 he was committed to the municipal theater in Bucharest, which was founded in 1947, initially as an actor and set designer, later as a director. From 1963 to 1972 he was director of the theater, which was renamed Lucia Sturdza-Bulandra in 1963, and in 1990 he became honorary director. From 1972 on he worked as a freelance director.

He staged, among other things, Nash's Der Regenmacher (1957), Shaw's The Holy Johanna (1959/60), As You Like It (1960, with himself as Jacques), Pogodin's Das Glockenspiel des Kremlin (1960, with himself as Lenin), The Threepenny Opera (1964), Danton's death (1960, with himself as Danton), Macbeth (1968), Leonce and Lena (1968), Caragiales A Lost Love Letter (1972, with himself as Dandanache), Paul Foster's Elisabeth I ( 1974), Labiches Das Sparschwein (1974), Nachtasyl (1960, 1975), Dürrenmatt's Play Strindberg (1976, with himself in the leading role), A Long Day's Journey into the Night (1976), The Storm (1978) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1990).

Since 1967 Ciulei has been touring several times. Productions abroad were Macbett by Eugène Ionesco (1973) and Gorkis Nachtasyl (1976 Münchner Kammerspiele , 1977 Sydney , 1978 Arena Stage, Washington), As You Like It (1968 Göttingen , 1982 Minneapolis ), The Threepenny Opera (1973 Mannheim ), Danton's death (1968, Schillertheater Berlin ), Leonce and Lena (1974 Washington, 1975 Vancouver ), Die Möwe (1968 at the Schillertheater), Ben Jonsons Volpone or the Fox (1970, Freie Volksbühne Berlin ), Ionesco's Macbett (1972, Münchner Kammerspiele), Paul Foster's Elisabeth I (1976 in Essen and Paris), Der Kirschgarten (1975, Essen), Hamlet (1979, Washington) and Debussys Pelléas et Mélisande (1989, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino ).

Ciulei built space stages for this purpose, which took on an important dramatic and narrative function in his productions.

Since 1951 he has also appeared in front of the camera as an actor. Between 1957 and 1964 he directed three films that made him an internationally known film director. Eruption takes place in the Romanian oil region, The Danube is burning describes the fight of a Romanian who switched to the side of the Allies in the Second World War against the Germans. In particular, his conscience drama The Forest of the Hanged from the time of the First World War was noted and in 1965 was awarded the Director's Prize at the Cannes Film Festival .

In 1963 he was co-founder and until 1968 Vice President of the Romanian Asociația Cineaștilor (ACIN). In 1980 he settled in the United States and was artistic director of the Tyrone Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis from 1981 to 1985. Here he staged, among others, Der Sturm (1981/82), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1985/86), Thomas Bernhard's Before Retirement (1982), Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (1982), Peer Gynt (1982), Three Sisters (1984 / 85), Die Bakchen (1987/88) and Der zerbrochne Krug (1994/95).

Since the 1990s, Ciulei has been staging again in Romania, for example Hamlet in 2000 and 2005. Six people are looking for an author at the Bulandra Theater, and he was involved in its renovation. He taught at Columbia University , among others, and received numerous national and international awards. Most recently he lived in Munich.

Liviu Ciulei was married three times: with the actress Clody Berthola , with the scenographer Ioana Gǎrdescu and with the journalist Helga Reiter . His adopted son Thomas (the son of Helga Reiters with a GDR writer) works as a cameraman, screenwriter and film director.

Filmography

actor
  • 1954: Reckoning (Răsare soarele)
  • 1955: Alarm in the mountains (Alarmă în munți)
  • 1960: Soldiers without uniform (Soldați fără uniformă)
  • 1963: The sky is without bars (Cerul n-are gratii)
  • 1971: The Way out of Twilight (Facerea lumii) (& production design)
  • 1971: The Departure (Decolarea)
  • 1972: Love begins on Friday (Dragostea începe vineri)
  • 1973: The hunt for handwriting (Dimitrie Cantemir)
  • 1975: Sunday on Burning Earth (Mastodontul)
Director
  • 1957: Eruption (Erupția)
  • 1959: The Danube is on fire (Valurile Dunării) (& actor)
  • 1964: The forest of the hanged (Pădurea spânzuraților) (& actor)

literature

  • Herbert Hauck : Theater in Essen 1974–1978. A documentation. Photo review of the 1974–1978 seasons . Wuppertal 1978.
  • Jürgen Dieter Waidelich : Essen plays theater: 1000 and one hundred years; for the 100th birthday of the Grillo Theater. Vol. 1 (1992) and Vol. 2 (1994), ECON-Verlag, ISBN 3-430-19454-7
  • C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon . Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
  • Manfred Brauneck , Wolfgang Beck (Ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2007, ISBN 3-499-55650-2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Romanian Film And Theater Director Liviu Ciulei Dies ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2018 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.mediafax.ro
  2. ↑ A murit regizorul Liviu Ciulei
personal data
SURNAME Ciulei, Liviu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian actor, theater director, film director, set designer and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH July 7, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest , Romania
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 2011
Place of death Munich , Germany