Sergei Radlov
Sergei Radlow (born July 18, 1892 in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; died October 27, 1958 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) was a Russian theater director and director .
Life
Sergei Radlow received theater training from Vsevolod Meyerhold between 1913 and 1917 . In 1920/21 he had his own theater group, in which he worked with the set designer Valentina Chodassewitsch (1894–1970). He worked on his own pieces and brought crowd scenes like in Vorwärts zur Weltkommune (1920) to the stage. From 1925 to 1934 he staged operas in Leningrad, including Franz Schreker's Der ferne Klang , Alban Berg's Wozzeck and Sergei Prokofiev's The Love of the Three Oranges . In 1927 he played in the Leningrad Circus . From 1928 to 1942 he ran his own studio theater in which he staged classic Shakespeare dramas , including repeated Othello , Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet , as well as Ibsen's ghosts . He worked at the State Jewish Theater in Moscow between 1930 and 1935, where he performed Solomon Michoels as King Lear .
Radlow wrote the libretto for the ballet Romeo and Juliet by Sergei Prokofjew , which could not be premiered in 1934 at the Leningrad Kirov Theater , but only in 1938 outside the Soviet Union in Brno .
Radlow was married to the writer Anna Dmitrievna Radlova , who also worked for him on the stage. Both came to the German Empire from the North Caucasus, which had been conquered by the Wehrmacht . After the war ended, they were accused of collaborating with the enemy and deported to a prison camp, where Radlowa died in 1949. Radlow was still working in the Latvian Soviet Republic in the 1950s.
literature
- Dennis Kennedy (Ed.): The Oxford companion to theater and performance . Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010, p. 491
- David Zolotnitsky: Sergei Radlov: the Shakespearian fate of a Soviet director . Luxembourg: Harwood Academic Publishers, 1995 [not used here]
Web links
- Literature by and about Sergei Radlow in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Sergei Radlow in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Sergei Radlov in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dennis Kennedy (Ed.): The Oxford encyclopedia of theater & performance . Volume 2. M - Z. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2003, p. 1107
- ↑ Olga Martynova: Forgotten Classical Modernism of Russia , in: NZZ , November 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Radlow, Sergei |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Radlow, Sergei Ernestowitsch |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian theater director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 18, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1958 |
| Place of death | Riga Latvian SSR |