Ouriel Zohar

Ouriel Zohar (2009)

Ouriel Zohar (* 1952 ) is an Israeli- French theater director , theater writer and translator from French into Hebrew . Professor at the University of Technion and 1986 was Technion - Theater brought him to life, and since 1995 he has been a professor at the University of Paris VIII and HEC Paris .

Life

Ouriel Zohar gives his book "Meetings with Peter Brook" to Peter Brook, Paris 1991

In 1978 Zohar began working as a director in Paris. He received his doctorate on the subject of collective and universal kibbutz theater and taught the subject at the University of Paris VIII, where he worked as a university assistant from 1980 to 1985 . He has published 150 articles in the theater and academic journals in English, French and Hebrew. His publications in the university context take u. a. Reference to Peter Brook , Konstantin Sergejewitsch Stanislawski , Jerzy Grotowski , Augusto Boal , Martin Buber and Aharon David Gordon , who have decisively shaped the theater. So far he has performed 71 works in Israel, Europe, Canada and Africa. He wrote and published around 30 of them in Hebrew. He has u. a. Classics by Molière , Shakespeare , Marivaux , Henrik Ibsen and George Bernhard Shaw .

1989-2009

The Technion Theater he founded takes part in festivals in Europe, Canada and Israel. He teaches stage aesthetics , theater writing and drama in Paris and Israel. He wrote plays for both the Habima Theater from 1989 to 1990 and the Haifa Municipal Theater from 1995 to 1997. Under his leadership, Jewish-Arab joint projects with an artistic focus were created. He co-founded the El Midan Arab Theater in Haifa in 1994. Between 1993 and 1999 he was Vice-President of the International Association of University Theaters (IUTA), based in Liège , Belgium , of which he has been an honorary member since 2005. Since 1995 he has been a visiting professor at HEC (Paris) and since 1997 at the University of Paris VIII. In 1993, he brought the novel of the Sudanese author Tayeb Salih time the northern migration (Season of Migration to the North) to the stage, under the participation of the Palestinian-Israeli actor Mohammed Bakri, the best actor of the Acre Festival of alternative Israeli Theater Award (Acco Festival of alternative Israeli Theater). With him he also staged the “Bakri Monologue” in French, Arabic and Hebrew. Together with M. Bakri he played in Paris at the Boris Vian Hall Theater of Paris-Villette, on the national stage in Cergy-Pontoise , in Lille , at the Peace Festival in Brussels and in other countries. Under his direction, "The Palestinian Woman" was presented by Yehoshua Sobol , from the Technion Theater in Haifa, during the "  Cologne University Theater Week 1998", an Israeli - German festival of the Cologne studio stage , and also at the 5th International Festival of the University Theater in Jerusalem . Since 2002 he has played Prospero , the leading role in Shakespeare's The Tempest in the Theater by Béatrice Brout, and the Count of Northumberland in Shakespeare's Richard II , and has also interpreted texts by Victor Hugo and other French authors.

He founded his own theater group, the “Compagnie Ouriel Zohar” in Paris (2006) on the occasion of the development of Henrik Ibsen's work “ Ein Volksfeind ”, which premiered in Paris. Further performances took place in Fréjus and Besançon, in Liège, Belgium, Minsk , Belarus, in Valleyfield , Canada and in Porto Heli, Greece.

2009-2017

In 2010 he staged “ Seraphita ” in Paris - his adaptation of a novel written by Honoré de Balzac in 1834 at the Theater de l'Ile Saint-Louis, as well as in Brussels, Greece and Congo-Brazzaville. His production in Hebrew of Henrik Ibsen's “An Enemy of the People” was awarded the prize for best acting at the Festival of Benevento , Italy, 2009. Since 2007 he has been appointed an international juror for international competitions (in Paris, Minsk, Moscow, etc.) in the field of European universities and theater - he conducts masterclasses in directing and acting at festivals in Europe.

Among his students is the Caméra d'Or winner Scandar Copti , director and screenwriter of " Ajami ". This won five Ophir Award and an Oscar for " Best Foreign Language Film (Academy Award for best foreign language film)" in Los Angeles in 2009. Zohar itself has six books in Hebrew and a book in French and his wife Martine Zohar under under the title "My Life in Israel in the Light of the Pine Trees" . (Persée Editors, France 2009).

In 2015 he directed his piece "L'Initiation du Ciel" in French, in Switzerland, Bruxelles, Paris, Aix en Provence and Fréjus .

In 2017 he directed his play "The Invisible Garment" to the German community in Fréjus.

Books

• 2017: The Invisible Dress, (German Edition) Kindle Edition

Web links

• Radio interview (French) about peace between Israel and Palestine

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://compagniezohar.theatre-contemporain.net/post/2010/07/14/Ouriel-Zohar
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. 
3. ↑ http://www.theatre-ilesaintlouis.com/spectacle/seraphita-l-androgyne/