Mehdi Moradpour

Mehdi Moradpour (* 1979 in Tehran ) is an author , playwright , court interpreter and translator .

Life

Mehdi Moradpour grew up as the son of Azerbaijani parents in Tehran. He studied physics and industrial engineering in Iran. In 2001 he broke off his studies and came to Germany. After learning the German language and completing technical training, he began studying Spanish , sociology , American and Arabic studies in Leipzig and Havana in 2004 . He worked in various functions in the independent theater scene in Leipzig and Berlin and wrote journalistic articles on theater and culture. From 2014 to 2016 he attended the “Forum Text” ( Drama Forum ) course at uniT Graz .

Moradpour is an award-winning author. His plays have been translated several times. He works as an author, interpreter and translator for Persian (Farsi / Dari) and Spanish .

Works

Plays (selection)

• Assassination attempt or fresh flowers for Carl Ludwig , Theater Bremen 2019, director: Pınar Karabulut
• Die Lücke im Bauzaun (together with Vassilis Koukalani, freely based on "Balle, Malle, Hupe und Artur" by Volker Ludwig & Ensemble), GRIPS Theater 2019, director: Vassilis Koukalani
• a body for now and today , Schauspielhaus Wien 2018, director: Zino Wey
• chemo brother , Deutsche Oper Berlin 2016, director: Marielle Sterra
• mumien.ein heimspiel , Theater Konstanz 2016, director: Andreas Bauer
• pure land (free to premiere)
• towers of silence (free for the premiere)

Short stories, essays, poetry

• Pseudo-gay communist Arab goes to a solarium, heavily pregnant, orders hot beetroot and cardamom tea ( Zeit Online , 2018)
• Pseudo-gay Communist Arabs, heavily pregnant, buys marzipan and drives to Land Marzahn with Grandpa Gau, but then, but then the flock of birds (nazisundgoldmund.net, 2018)
• forest / machines / slaughterhouse prayer. one ode for several (in engagée . political-philosophical interference # 5 // machine-becoming, 2017, staged realization in the Club of Polish Failures 2017, director: Richard Gonlag)
• constant translation (Yalta: "Desintegration", Neofelis Verlag , 2017)
• monsterlesen ( Schlosspost der Akademie Schloss Solitude , 2017)
• Your step on my eyes . About the communication situation during interpreting (Logbuch Suhrkamp, ​​2016)

Editorships

• Theater in Iran. Play instinct and mask play ( Theater der Zeit , 2011)
• Theater in Cuba. History, everyday life, utopia ( Theater der Zeit , 2010)

Translations (selection)

Theater texts

• Ten Millions by Carlos Celdrán (translation Mehdi Moradpour, Carola Heinrich), Verlag Theater der Zeit , 2019
• Macbeth after William Shakespeare , by Amir Reza Koohestani , Kammerspiele Munich , 2018
• The adaptation by Mahin Sadri, Wiener Festwochen , 2016

Factual texts

• "Reading traces - cultural imaginations in contemporary stage arts" by Gabriel Yépez, Theater der Zeit, 2015
• "The Masters and Margarita - Theater Education in Mexico" by Ricardo García Arteaga, Theater der Zeit, 2015
• "Snapshots" by Calixto Bieito - A Decade of Music Theater at the Komische Oper Berlin, Theater der Zeit, 2012
• "Closing the gap to the rest of the world - theater training in Iran" by Rahmat Amini, Theater der Zeit, 2011

Awards

• 2018: Prize of the EURODRAM network for a body for now and today (with Dominik Busch & Raoul Biltgen)
• 2017 Christian Dietrich Grabbe Prize (advancement award) for pure land (with Clemens Mägde)
• 2016: WIENER WORTSTAETTEN's exile playwright prize for towers of silence
• 2015: Jury award of the authors' competition in St. Gallen and Constance ( St. Gallen Author Days ) for mummies. a home game
• 2014–2016: Funding program for scenic writing FORUM Text - uniT Graz
• 2013: Nomination for the Munich Prize for German-Language Drama with pure land / loss

Web links

• Mehdi Moradpour at Suhrkamp Verlag
• Articles by Mehdi Moradpour in the Suhrkamp logbook
• Articles on theater and politics in the magazine Theater der Zeit
• Video portrait with Mehdi Moradpour as part of the Writers @ Berlin project
• UNDESCRIBED PLACES Mehdi Moradpour in conversation with the director Sandra Schüddekopf
• Mehdi Moradpour live from the wound through his play “Towers of Silence” in conversation with the dramaturge Miriam Denger
• Page in the authors' lexicon Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCiQE-RYBDY Video portrait with Mehdi Moradpour as part of the Writers @ Berlin project
2. ^ Elisabeth Maier: Mummies. A home game - Mehdi Moradpour's winning piece of the 3rd authors' competition of the Theaters in Konstanz and St. Gallen, premiered by Andreas Bauer. Accessed November 17, 2019 (German). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Biography - Mehdi Moradpour | Drama forum. Accessed November 17, 2019 (German). 
4. ↑ Mehdi Morad Pour - Suhrkamp Island Authors Authors detail. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Suhrkamp Theatermagazin 2020. (pdf) In: www.suhrkamp.de. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Stage plays & radio plays by Mehdi Moradpour - Suhrkamp Insel Authors Author details. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Max Czollek, Özlem Özgül Dündar, Sandra Gugić, Mehdi Moradpour, Ronya Othmann: #MeTwo: Always caught in the turnstile, always in these spaces . In: The time . August 8, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed November 17, 2019]).
8. ↑ Pseudo-gay Communist Arabs, heavily pregnant, buys marzipan and drives to Land Marzahn with Grandpa Gau, but then, but then the flock of birds - Nazis & Goldmund. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
9. ↑ reading monsters. March 15, 2017, Retrieved November 17, 2019 (American English). 
10. ↑ Your step on my eyes. February 17, 2017, accessed on November 17, 2019 (German). 
11. ↑ Plays from Cuba - published by Theater der Zeit . 2019, ISBN 978-3-95749-154-1 ( theaterderzeit.de [accessed November 17, 2019]).
12. ↑ MACBETH AFTER WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, BY AMIR REZA KOOHESTANI directed by Amir Reza Koohestani. Retrieved November 17, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Press kit for the Christian Dietrich Grabbe Prize award [accessed on February 24, 2020]
14. ↑ exile playwright prize 2016 to Mehdi Moradpour. In: nachtkritik.de. November 7, 2016, accessed March 21, 2020 . 
15. ↑ Mehdi Moradpour wins 3rd authors' competition in St. Gallen and Konstanz. In: nachtkritik.de. June 8, 2015, accessed March 21, 2020 . 
16. ↑ Sponsorship Award - Drei Masken Verlag. In: dreimaskenverlag.de. Retrieved March 21, 2020 .