Romeo Castellucci

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Romeo Castellucci (born August 4, 1960 in Cesena ) is an Italian director .

Romeo Castellucci (2014)
Romeo Castellucci at the Teatro Comunale of Bologna (2014)

Life

Romeo Castellucci initially studied agriculture, but then moved to the Accademia di belle arti di Bologna (University of Fine Arts of Bologna), where he completed his studies in stage design and painting. His theater work is strongly influenced by the visual arts. Together with Claudia Castellucci and Chiara Guidi, he founded the theater company Societas Raffaello Sanzio in 1981, and has been its artistic director ever since. The company named itself after Raffaello Sanzio , an important painter and builder of the High Renaissance . The company is known for radical, powerful contemporary theater ("nuovo teatro"). Castellucci himself sees his roots in antiquity and refers to the poetics of Aristotle . Castellucci has developed a stage aesthetic that is powerful in terms of images and sound, largely without dialogue and has a suggestive effect. Viewers are sometimes confronted with intense and complex "worlds of experience" and "impressive images", "which, despite their persistent burning into memory, radically elude tangibility," said the theater scholar Denis Leifeld about the production Hey Girl! which premiered in Avignon in 2007. In Germany, the Societas Raffaello Sanzio has made repeated guest appearances at the Hebbel-Theater Berlin and at the euro-scene Leipzig . In 2005 Castellucci directed the Venice Theater Biennale. He has published numerous works on theater theory and realized several video and film projects. In 2008 he was an artiste associé des Festival of Avignon with Valérie Dréville .

Sul concetto di volto nel figlio di Duo ( On the concept of the face of God's Son ) caused a theater scandal in Berlin's Hebbel am Ufer in 2012 . The performance showed an old man being cared for by his son. The old man is incontinent, soiling himself and his apartment, the once little one takes care of the papa who becomes a child again, this in front of an oversized picture of Christ by Antonello da Messina . The viewers in Berlin were about the smell of feces and “the plot was partly shocked”, but acclaimed the play. The production had already led to heated discussions and protests by conservative Catholic groups in various Italian cities, sometimes in a militant form. Performances in Paris could only take place under police protection. The German Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki spoke of blasphemy - but without having seen the play. The press defended the performance: “In the past, the theater needed the scandal. Church people want to convince him here. To protect something that has slipped away from them - the soul and the feeling of the contemporaries. ” The production also made a guest appearance - as part of the Wiener Festwochen - at the Burgtheater , also with protests from clerical conservatives.

At the Salzburg Festival 2018 he staged (director, stage, costumes and lighting) the musical drama Salome by Richard Strauss from 1905.

Productions (selection)

Performances 2002-2004: Avignon Festival ; Hebbel Theater , Berlin; KunstenFESTIVALdesArts-Bruxelles / Brussel; Bergen International Festival; Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe and Festival d'Automne-Paris; RomaEuropa Festival; Le maillon-Théâtre de Strasbourg; LIFT (London International Festival of Theater); Théâtre des Bernardines and Théâtre du Gymnase-Marseille

Movies

  • 2002–2004 - ten-part film cycle Tragedia Endogonidia

literature

  • Denis Leifeld: Bringing up performances. For performance analysis of performers in theater and art. transkript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2805-0 , p. 220.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eleni Papalexiou & Avra ​​Xepapadakou: About SRS. In: Arch-Archival Research & Cultural Heritage. The Theater Archive of Societas Raffaello Sanzio. October 1, 2017, accessed October 1, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Denis Leifeld: Bringing Performances to Language. For performance analysis of performers in theater and art. transcript, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-8376-2805-0 .
  3. ^ Eleni Papalexiou: Ecce Homo: On the Concept of the Face Regarding the Son of God . In: Theater of Time . January 2011. Berlin January 2011, p. 67 .
  4. ^ Dementia, feces and hand grenades
  5. ↑ Rüdiger Schaper: A person . Berliner Tagesspiegel, March 7, 2012
  6. ↑ Richard Strauss Salome , on the website of the Salzburg Festival, accessed on July 15, 2018
  7. ↑ Romeo Castellucci artist biography on salzburgerfestspiele.at, accessed on July 15, 2018
  8. ↑ Tragedia Endogonidia, 2002 - 2004, accessed on August 12, 2018
  9. ↑ Criticism on teatro.org (it.) ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2010 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. (accessed on October 7, 2012) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teatro.org
  10. ↑ The devil's cat can be found in detail in FAZ of September 9, 2014, page 13

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personal data
SURNAME Castellucci, Romeo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian director
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Cesena