Paolo Grassi

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Paolo Grassi (born October 30, 1919 in Milan ; died March 14, 1981 in London ) was an Italian theater manager.

Life

Paolo Grassi attended the Liceo classico Giuseppe Parini and took part in independent theater groups during this time. He was drafted as a soldier in 1941 and deserted to Resistance after the Italian surrender in 1943 . After the war he wrote articles for the socialist newspaper Avanti! With his wife Nina Vinchi Grassi and his friend Giorgio Strehler , he founded the Piccolo Teatro di Milano in 1947 , which developed into the first state-funded theater with a permanent ensemble (teatro stable) in Italy. Thanks to Strehler's directorial work, the theater was invited across Europe.

Grassi, who from 1968 directed the Piccolo Teatro alone, was appointed artistic director of La Scala in Milan in 1972 . After that, Grassi was director of the Italian state television RAI from 1977 to 1980 . In 1980 he went to the Electa publishing house . Grassi was in London in 1981 for a heart operation in which he died.

Grave slab in the Civico Mausoleo Palanti on the Cimitero Monumentale Milan

In 1976 Grassi received the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . The theater academy “Scuola d'arte drammatica Paolo Grassi” in Milan is named after him.

Fonts (selection)

  • Emilio Pozzi (Ed.): Quarant'anni di palcoscenico . Milan: Mursia, 1977
  • Guido Vergani (Ed.): Paolo Grassi. Lettere 1942-1980 . Milan: Skira, 2004
  • Carlo Fontana, Valentina Garavaglia (eds.): Il coraggio della responsabilità: scritti per l'Avanti, 1945–1980 . Milan: Skira, 2009

literature

  • Carlo Dilonardo: Paolo Grassi, Il valore civile del teatro . Rome: Arduino Sacco Editore, 2009
  • Francesca Grassi, Antonietta Magli (eds.): Paolo Grassi. Il teatro come bene pubblico . Florence: Passigli Editori, 2011
  • Francesca Grassi, Antonietta Magli (eds.): Milano e Paolo Grassi. Un teatro per la città . Florence: Passigli Editori, 2011

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dates from the short biography at Piccolo teatro
personal data
SURNAME Grassi, Paolo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian theater director
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan
DATE OF DEATH March 14, 1981
Place of death London