Vida Ognjenović

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Vida Ognjenovic [ʋǐːda oɡɲěːnoʋitɕ] ( Serbian - Cyrillic Вида Огњеновић * 14. August 1941 in Dubočke (Дубочке) in Nikšić , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ) is a Serbian director , author , university lecturer , politician and diplomat . From 1990 to 1993, she was the first woman director of the Belgrade National Theater . Ognjenovic is President of the Serbian PEN Center and was accredited as Ambassador to Norway and Denmark .

Life

education and profession

Ognjenović was born in 1941 in the village of Dubočke, about 20 kilometers northwest of the town of Nikšić in what is now Montenegro . She had eight siblings, but grew up separately from them with her grandparents for health reasons. They moved to Vojvodina , where Ognjenović attended elementary school in Vrbas and grammar school in Sremski Karlovci . She completed her studies with two degrees in literature and languages ​​at the University of Belgrade (1963) and directing at the Belgrade Academy for Theater, Film and Television (1965). Ognjenović enrolled in postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and obtained a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in directing from the University of Minnesota in 1972 .

From 1974 to 1979 Ognjenović was assistant professor for dramaturgy at the University of the Arts in Belgrade . In 1977 she was awarded a four-year contract as artistic director of the National Theater in the same city. She then worked there as a director and playwright until Ognjenović took over the management from April 1990 to January 1993 as the first and until November 2018 only woman. Between 1982 and 2001 she also taught as a visiting professor and lecturer at several major universities in the United States ( University of California, Los Angeles , University of Illinois at Chicago , University of California, Berkeley , Stanford University ).

In 2009 Ognjenovi founded the Novi Tvrđava Teatar in the Vila Stanković near Novi Sad .

Ognjenovic is President of the Serbian PEN Center and since September 2012 Vice President of PEN International. She lives and works in Belgrade .

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Ognjenović has staged almost a hundred plays and many television and radio productions. Her theater work includes productions for a number of theaters in the former Yugoslavia as well as abroad. In addition to dramas , stories , novellas and short stories are part of her life's work. Her books have won numerous prizes and have been translated into German, English, Polish, Hungarian and Czech.

She also wrote the script for three out of six television films directed by Ognjenović . About Albert Einstein's first wife Mileva Maric , she wrote in 1972 the script, directed, created in 1998 and wrote a play in 2011, the libretto for an opera in two acts by Aleksandra Vrebalov .

Politics and diplomacy

Ognjenović is one of the founders of the left-liberal Demokratska Stranka (DS, Democratic Party), founded in 1989, and the offshoot Demokratski centar (DC, Democratic Center), founded in 1996 , which reunited after the murder of Zoran Đinđić . She was a member of the Presidium of Demokratska Stranka.

Vida Ognjenović was appointed Ambassador of Serbia and Montenegro to Norway in 2001. Her term of office ended in 2006 with the dissolution of the confederation . From June 2011 to February 2013 she served as Serbia's ambassador to Denmark .

Awards (selection)

Ognjenović's theatrical works have been awarded the Sterija Prize of the Sterijino pozorje Festival several times and have won all the important theater prizes in their home country. Her literary prizes include, for example:

Works (selection)

Dramas

  • Melanholicne Drame , 1991.
  • Kanjos Macedonovic , 1993.
  • Devojka Modre Kose , 1993.
  • Setne Komedije , 1994.
  • Mileva Ajnštajn , 1998.
  • Drame I-III , 2001-2002.
  • Don Krsto , 2007.

Stories and short stories

  • Otrovno Mleko Maslacka , 1994.
  • Stari Sat , 1996.
  • Najlepše pripovetke , 2001.

libretto

  • Mileva , 2011.

Novella

  • Kuca Mrtvih Mirisa , 1995.

Studies

  • Strah od Scenske Rasprave , 1980.
  • Sekspiromanija , 1980.

Translation into Serbian

  • Luda igra ("Луда игра") - dance of fools by Leo Birinsky , 1988.

Filmography

Film director

  • Neznani junak , 1972.
  • Mileva Ajnstajn , 1972.
  • Oni lepi rodjendani , 1973.
  • Ujez , 1974.
  • Maj nejm iz Mitar , 1984.
  • Corba od kanarinca , 2001.

scriptwriter

  • Mileva Ajnstajn , 1972.
  • Ujez , 1974.
  • Maj nejm iz Mitar , 1984.
  • Kako zasmejati gospodara , 1988.

actress

  • Narodno pozoriste u 10 cinova , episode: Tajna vecera , 2018.

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ ekapija.com: Vida Ognjenović, pisac, reditelj, ambasador… . (Serbian, accessed April 26, 202)
  2. ↑ pen-international.org: Serbian Center . (English, accessed April 26, 2020)
  3. ↑ pen-international.org: PEN Presidents and Vice Presidents . (English, accessed April 27, 2020)
  4. ↑ b92.net : V. Ognjenović potpredsednica PEN-a . (Serbian, accessed April 27, 2020)
  5. ↑ aleksandravrebalov.com: Mileva . (Serbian, accessed April 26, 2020)
  6. ↑ blic.rs : UJEDINJENJE POSLE TRI DECENIJE PODELA Hronologija cepanja Democratic strength ili kako je DS “PRAVILA I JELA SVOJU DECU” . (Serbian, as of May 22, 2019; accessed April 26, 2020)
  7. ↑ blic.rs: Vida Ognjenović opozvana sa dužnosti ambasadora u Danskoj . (Serbian, as of February 22, 2013; accessed April 26, 2020)
personal data
SURNAME Ognjenović, Vida
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Огњеновић, Вида (Serbian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian director, writer, university lecturer, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubočke near Nikšić , Kingdom of Yugoslavia