Rafael Spregelburd

Rafael Spregelburd (July 2010)

Rafael Spregelburd (* 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine playwright , director and translator and an important representative of contemporary Argentine theater . He lives and works mainly in his hometown of Buenos Aires. His translations by Harold Pinter , Steven Berkoff , Sarah Kane , Marius von Mayenburg , Wallace Shawn and others have received awards and have seen multiple publications and productions.

Career

Spregelburd studied acting and dramaturgy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires , a. a. with the dramaturge Mauricio Kartun , the director Ricardo Bartis and the Spanish playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra . In 1996 he broke off his studies in order to devote himself fully to the theater. He started his theater career as an actor, but soon became interested in dramaturgy. Since 1995 he has also been directing and mainly staging his own plays. In addition, he occasionally produces personal adaptations of texts by other authors.

In 1994 he founded his own theater company "El Patrón Vázquez" and appeared at numerous international festivals, including a. Festival Iberoamericano de Bogotá, FIT Festival Internacional de Cádiz, Festival de Otoño de Madrid, Festival Grec de Barcelona, Festival de Temporada Alta de Girona, Fronteras Festival in London, Wiener Festwochen, FILO Festival Internacional de Londrina, Gateway to the Americas Festival in Mexico , MIT Mostra Internacional de Teatro of Brasilia, Festival Santiago A Mil of Santiago de Chile, Festival Internacional de Caracas, Festival Internacional de Badajoz etc.

Prices

Spregelburd has received over 30 Argentinian and international awards, including a. the Spanish dramaturgy prize “Tirso de Molina” (2003), the dramaturgy prize of the city of Buenos Aires , the Argentine prizes “Argentores” (1996), “María Guerrero”, “Florencio Sánchez” and “Trinidad Guevara” and the prize of the Argentine daily Clarín .

In 1995 he received the “El Teatro Fronterizo” scholarship from the Sala Beckett , Barcelona, and in 1998 he was invited by the British Council and the Royal Court Theater London to participate in the “Summer International Residency”, an annual program organized by the Royal Court Theater for which he was then commissioned as an in-house author. In 2000 he was a participant in the writing workshop of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg , since 2004 a guest author at the Schaubühne at Lehniner Platz Berlin and at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart . From 2005, Spregelburd becomes a fellow at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.

Works

"Heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch"

The main work by Rafael Spregelburd is the " Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch " ("Heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch"), a complete cycle of seven pieces. In each of the pieces Spregelburd seeks a contemporary equivalent for the classic seven deadly sins , which are depicted on the round table painting of the same name by Hieronymus Bosch:

La inapetencia ( The loss of appetite ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch I
La extravagancia ( The exuberance ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch II
La modestia ( The Modesty ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch III
La estupidez ( Stupidity ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch IV
El pánico ( The Panic ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch V
La paranoia ( The Paranoia ), heptalogy of Hieronymus Bosch VI
La terquedad ( The stubbornness ) Heptalogie Jerome Bosch VII

The Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg presented two of these plays in 2001: The lack of appetite and The exuberance , premiered by Gabriella Bußacker. Also in 2001 the same theater put on a staged reading of The Modesty , performed by the author.

The stage 2004, the stupidity before at the Festival of International New Drama (FIND 4) staged in a self-created by the author reading. The play was then staged by Tom Kühnel in May 2005 and premiered in a German-language version. After that, Rafael Sanchez staged Die Dummheit at the Basel Theater.

On March 19, 2005, Spregelburd set up a staged first reading of Die Panik , also at the Schaubühne , as part of FIND 5. Die Panik was also performed in Czech in November 2005 ("Panika"), as well as by Ján Simko at the Cinoherní Studio in Ústí nad Labem . The German-language premiere of Die Panik took place on January 13, 2007 under the direction of Patrick Wengenroth in the Münchner Kammerspiele , in May 2008 it was staged by Andreas Herrmann at the Lucerne Theater .

The modesty experienced its German-language premiere on November 24, 2005 at the Moers Castle Theater .

Sturheit was premiered on May 2, 2008 at the Schauspiel Frankfurt in cooperation with the Nationaltheater Mannheim under the direction of Burkhard C. Kosminski.

"Bizarra, una saga argentina"

In 2003 Spregelburd's theater telenovela "Bizarra, una saga argentina" was premiered at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires . It consisted of ten parts, of which a new part was shown every week. Over 50 actors had to be cast for the 15-hour saga. There was space for around 200 people per episode in the auditorium.

In addition to the performance of this “telenovela in the theater”, there was an album to buy similar to the Panini collector's pictures known in Germany .

Other works

The piece Un momento argentino ( An Argentine moment ) was written during the unrest in Argentina from the end of December 2001 (see Cacerolazo ), when the political and economic crisis in Argentina reached its peak. A group of officers and wives who once served the Argentine junta meet to watch slides from their vacation while demonstrations are taking place outside. The connection between inside and outside is made by the daughter of one of the military, the "bomb girl". In the end, she learns that she is not his real daughter, but that he adopted her after her father was tortured to death. The piece, which ends as a farce , was u. a. Performed in the Theaterhaus Stuttgart in 2002 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Spregelburd, Rafael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Argentine playwright
DATE OF BIRTH	1970
PLACE OF BIRTH	Buenos Aires