Wajdi Mouawad

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Wajdi Mouawad OC ( Arabic وجدي معوض; Waǧdī Muʿawwaḍ; * October 16, 1968 in Dair al-Qamar , Lebanon) is a Lebanese- Canadian writer , actor and director . He writes in French and lives in France.

Life

The Maronite Mouawad family emigrated from Lebanon to France in 1976 and from there to Québec ( Canada ) in 1983 . Here Wajdi Mouawad received an acting training at the École Nationale de Théâtre du Canada . He founded and ran a theater in Montréal and became one of the leading new talents in the French-Canadian language area. Burns premiered in Montréal in 2003 under the title “Incendies” . As the second part of a planned tetralogy, it was translated into German. For the first part (“Littoral” - “Coastal Area”) Mouawad received the Prix ​​Molière in 2005 as best Francophone author. European theater festivals such as the Festival d'Avignon (with the tetralogy Le sang des promesses ) or the Bonn Biennale have perceived Wajdi Mouawad as an inspiring young author. He became known in Germany with the German-language premiere of Burns . Mouawad was appointed artistic advisor for the Festival d'Avignon, cycle 63, for 2009. Burns was filmed in French in 2010 by Canadian director Denis Villeneuve as The Woman Who Sings - Incendies . The film was nominated for the Oscar 2011 in the category Best Foreign Language Film .

Mouawad was artistic director at the Théâtre français du Center national des Arts d'Ottawa from 2007 to 2012 . Since September 2011 he has been artistically involved in the Grand T , the theater in the Loire-Atlantique department in Nantes . Since April 2016 he has been director of the Théâtre national de la Colline in Paris.

Works

Plays
  • Himmel (French: Ciels ) Translated from Uli Menke. World premiere: Au Carré de l'Hypoténuse / Abé Carré Cé Carré / Festival d'Avignon, July 18, 2009, directed by Wajdi Mouawad. German speaking EA. Young Playhouse Hamburg February 20, 2015, director: Konradin Kunze
  • Wedding at the Cromagnons. (French: Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons . ) Urauff. Théâtre d'Aujourd'hui, Montréal 1992. Directed by Wajdi Mouawad. German speaking EA Staatstheater Kassel April 10, 2015, directed by Gustav Rueb
  • Alphonse. Leméac, Montréal 1993 ISBN 9782760999268
  • Willy Protagoras enfermé in the toilets. 1998
  • Les mains d'Edwige au moment de la naissance. 1999
  • Le songe. Short piece, 1996
  • Couteau. Short piece, 1997
  • Coast. (French: Littoral ) WM in collaboration with Isabelle Leblanc. Übers. Uli Menke. Premiere. Théâtre Ô Parleur - Festival de théâtre des Amériques, Montréal 1997. Directed by Wajdi Mouawad. German speaking EA State Theater Mainz, February 19, 2011. Directed by André Rößler
  • Rêves. ("Dreams", 1999)
  • Pacamambo. 2000
  • La places est un cheval. Short piece, 2002
  • Un trolleybus dans le cœur. ("A grenade in the heart", 2005) based on his novel "Visage retrouvé"
  • Burns . (French Incendies. ) Translated by Uli Menke. Premiere: Théâtre de Quat'Sous - Festival de théâtre des Amériques and Théâtre Ô Parleur - Théâtre Hexagone, Meylan , March 14, 2003. Directed by Wajdi Mouawad. Federal German premieres on October 13, 2006, Deutsches Theater Göttingen and State Theater Nuremberg . Staging by Georg Schmiedleitner . Austrian premiere on September 28, 2007 at the Akademietheater (Vienna) . Print edition Publishing house of the authors, 2015 ISBN 3886612996
  • Lettre d'amour d'un jeune garçon (qui dans d'autres circonstances aurait été poète, mais qui fut poseur de bombes), à sa mère morte depuis peu. Short piece, 2005
  • John. 2005
  • The thirsty. WM with the collaboration of Benoît Vermeulen. Übers. Uli Menke. Youth theater. (French: Assoiffés. ) Premiere . Théâtre Le Clou, Montréal , October 12, 2006; Directed by Benoît Vermeulen. German speaking EA: State Theater Mainz , November 5, 2009, directed by André Rößler .
  • Woods. Übers. Uli Menke. (French Forêts. ) Premiere. Au Carré de l'hypoténuse - Abé carré cé carré, Espace Malraux, Chambéry , March 7, 2006. Directed by Wajdi Mouawad. German-language EA: Staatstheater Darmstadt , October 9, 2009. Directed by Axel Richter. Print edition Verlag der Autor , 2009 ISBN 3886613240 .
  • One cannot look the sun and death in the eye. Translated by Uli Menke (French: Le soleil ni la mort ne peuvent se regarder en face. ) World premiere: Théâtre national de Bordeaux en Aquitaine, 2008, directed by Dominique Pitoiset. German speaking EA: Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Berlin, October 24, 2008, director: the same.
  • Temps. ("Time") World premiere on March 3, 2011, FIND theater festival in the Schaubühne on Lehniner Platz
  • Seuls - Chemin texte et peintures, Leméac / Actes Sud, 2008 ( ISBN 978-2-7427-7986-4 )
  • Ciels Actes Sud, 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-7427-8381-6 ) (partie 4 du cycle Le Sang des Promesses)
  • Journée de noces chez les Cromagnons coédition Leméac / Actes Sud-Papiers, 2011 ( ISBN 978-2-7427-9612-0 )
  • Sœurs coédition Leméac / Actes Sud-Papiers, 2015 ( ISBN 978-2-330-04701-6 )
  • Une chienne Actes Sud-Papiers, 2016 ( ISBN 978-2-330-06034-3 )
  • Inflammation du verbe vivre Actes Sud-Papiers, 2016 ( ISBN 978-2-330-06035-0 )
  • Les Larmes d'Œdipe Actes Sud-Papiers, 2016 ( ISBN 978-2-330-06037-4 )
  • Victoires Actes Sud-Papiers, 2017 ( ISBN 978-2-330-07248-3 )
  • Tous des oiseaux Actes Sud-Papiers, 2018 ( ISBN 978-2-330-09754-7 )
prose
  • Visage retrouvé. Roman ("Recovered Face"). Leméac, Montréal and Actes Sud, Arles 2002 ISBN 9782760923065 ; again 2010 ISBN 9782760929555
  • “Je suis le méchant!” Conversations with the director André Brassard. Leméac, Montréal, and Actes Sud, Arles 2004 ISBN 9782760903937
  • Anima. Novel. Leméac, Montréal and Actes Sud, Arles 2012 ISBN 9782760908291
    • in German: Anima. Novel. Translated by Sonja Finck . Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag , dtv premium 26021. Munich 2014 ISBN 9783423260213
      • Review: Katharina Granzin, cockroaches tell a different story than horses. With Indian myths on the trail of the Lebanese civil war . Die Tageszeitung , taz, June 7, 2014, p. 27
      • Review: Laura Strack, WDR 3 , Mosaik (Magazin), July 2, 2014, Mskr. Can be accessed as .pdf on the Mosaik pages
      • Review: Sylvia Staude, gray squirrel tells. Frankfurter Rundschau June 25, 2014, "Literature" section online
      • Review: Gesa Wegeng, This book is really quite awesome and special in a disturbing way. WDR, 1 Live , June 16, 2014
      • Review: jwc (abbreviation), Die Beast Mensch. NZZ , Feuilleton, from August 26, 2014
  • Les animaux ont une histoire. CD. Coll. Bibliothèque sonore, 1. The work is based on an exhibition in the Musée d'histoire de Nantes from December 2015 to February 21, 2016 called Créatures. Les animaux ont une histoire, in which, as in the novel Anima from 2012, he lets animals have their say and relates these voices to objects in the existing collections, primarily to skeletons. Poster of the exhibition with a detailed description (in French); on the author's website: The CD. With sound excerpt.

Directorial work

Awards

  • 2002: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French minister of culture for his entire work
  • 2005: Molière as the best francophone author in the theater category
  • 2009: Officer of the Order of Canada
  • 2012: Le Grand Prix SGDL Thyde Monnier for 'Anima'
  • 2013: Prix Méditerranée for 'Anima'
  • 2013: Prix Littéraire du 2ème Roman for 'Anima', see in French
  • 2013: Prix Phénix for 'Anima'; this award is given for Francophone literature related to Lebanon
  • 2013: On the shortlist (with 5 titles) of the Prix des Libraires du Québec for 'Anima', in the category Adults / Novels from Quebec
  • 2015: Prix Lire en Poche de littérature francaise for 'Anima'
  • 2020: 1st European Dramatists' Prize of the Stuttgart Theater

literature

  • Jennifer Dummer: Literature from Canada . Collective review, including Mouawad, Anima , along with 2 other books whose protagonists are animals. In: 360 ° Canada. The magazine. H. 3, July 2019, Verlag 360 ° Medien Christine & Andreas Walter, Mettmann ISSN  1869-8328 (Zugl. DKG-Journal ) p. 78f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Night review , about this performance
  2. ↑ The Cromagnon family celebrates a wedding amid falling bombs. They pretend life goes on. But the war has long since penetrated the family: the parents love and hate one another; the elder son has gone to battle against whomever; the younger eagerly awaits the return of the beloved brother. What about the daughter? Is she crazy, retarded, or is she simply the only one who has not allowed herself to be infected by the ubiquitous violence? In any case, it should be her big day, the wedding preparations are in full swing, the guests have to arrive at any moment. But one thing is also missing: the groom. With this bitter comedy, Mouawad laid the foundation for his later work. His central themes can already be found here: the war; external and internal emigration; the violence that inscribes itself like a legacy in families
  3. ↑ Just on the most exciting night of love Wilfried has ever had, he learns of his father's death. The father, whom he hardly knew as a living person, becomes very much alive and even a problem for him when he is dead. It becomes impossible to bury him. The mother's family refuses to be admitted to the family vault. The transfer of the corpse to the old, war-damaged home of the father turns into an odyssey. Due to the costly wars, the dead in the country have long been in the majority and have occupied all grave sites. Gradually it is high time to get rid of the father. When Wilfried finally succeeds in submerging him in the sea after an arduous journey through the country, he experienced a lot anew: his father, himself and his own history marked by exile and uprooting
  4. ↑ With "impressive language power", as Die Welt writes, Mouawad takes the viewer on a long journey on which the causes of violence and bloodshed are relentlessly reported. Mouawad tells how the siblings Jeanne and Simon explore the past of their mother Nawal, who fled the war in the Middle East to the safe West in order to start a new life there. Nawal's last will entrusts the twins with the task of delivering two letters: one to their father, who was believed dead, and the other to an unknown brother. Reluctantly, the two take the trip to their mother's home. The search for her own roots leads her back to the collective tragedy of war
  5. ↑ The forensic anthropologist Boon is hired to identify two bodies that were found in a river. In one of the two dead he recognizes his childhood friend Murdoch, who had mysteriously disappeared 15 years earlier. The secret of the young girl who is recovered with Murdoch and who had been hugging him at the bottom of the river for all these years remains open. Boon embarks on a search: for the girl's identity, for the past of his rebellious childhood friend, and not least he finds the youngster he once was himself: an adolescent, just as thirsty for meaning, for life and love like his peers. A cleverly built piece about the difficulties of growing up, about disappointments and rebellions, but also about love and the power of the imagination
  6. ↑ Montréal, 1989: During her birthday party, Aimée proudly announces to her friends that she is expecting a child. But the celebration is suddenly interrupted by an epileptic fit that Aimée suffers. A tumor is found in her head, caused by a foreign body lodged in the brain. The doctors give her a choice: she has to weigh the life of the unborn child and her own. Aimée decides in favor of the child. Sixteen years later: After Aimée's death, her daughter Loup reluctantly embarks on a journey into the past. Because the foreign body that was found in her mother's brain leads to the mysterious trail of another deceased. Suddenly Loup gets caught up in a vortex of events, which for the 16-year-old is more and more a search for her own roots, for the history of her family as well as that of an entire continent: a story of forbidden love affairs and betrayal, of war and violence, but also the story of a friendship between two women that outlasted death. With great enthusiasm for tales, Mouawad unfolds a family saga that is also a condensate of 150 years of European history
  7. ↑ Zeus , disguised as a bull, kidnaps the beautiful Europa on the beach in what is now Lebanon. Europe's brothers are sent away from the Father to look for them. Only the youngest brother remains behind. But when the father dies, Kadmos also sets out to find the sister. He too searches in vain for Europe and finally founds a city, Thebes . Three generations later, Thebes was destroyed by war. Kadmos' great-grandson Laios has to flee, his enemies want to kill him. King Pelops grants him exile, but Laios falls in love with his son, kidnaps the boy and flees back to Thebes. A new war breaks out, at the end of which there is a curse: No child for Laios. Nevertheless, a son is born to him: Oedipus . - Here Mouawad has assembled parts of the great Greek tragedies of Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides into one another. It tells the story of the city of Thebes: the decline of a utopia, the destruction of a civilization and the multiple guilt entanglement of the ancestors
  8. ↑ as a play see above
  9. ↑ Other versions in Spanish ISBN 842334777X and Catalan ISBN 8494049097
  10. ↑ Mouawad (turns) once more with philosophical seriousness and technical virtuosity to the riddle of human violence ... In love with detail and imaginative, he assigns each animal its own way of speaking, which the translator Sonja Finck ... has carefully and carefully ... There is an equally great humility in the grand gestures of the novel, an inexhaustible affection for the world, for its diverse inhabitants and especially for the most violent, perhaps most lost, of them.
  11. ↑ "Anima" ... starts like a thriller: A man named Wahsch Dibsch finds his wife in the common living room in Montreal, murdered incredibly brutally. We learn from his horror, his pain and his search for the murderer, which drives him further and further into the North American wilderness and into his past, and that is the trick that gives this novel its special charm almost to the end the sight of animals. Whether Carthusian cat, house sparrow, sniffer dog, goldfish, common raven, gray squirrel, brown rat or black garden ant, they all have their own view of this man and man in general, in all his loneliness, intangible grief and bestiality ... An unusual novel with a unique sound full of melancholy and poetry and a mostly detached, honest view from above or below of the human species.
  12. ↑ see French Wikipédia: Société des gens de lettres
  13. ↑ see French Wikipédia: Prix Méditerranée
  14. ↑ see Prix ​​Phénix ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.najjar.org
  15. ↑ see the selection list
  16. ↑ see Lire en Poche
personal data
SURNAME Mouawad, Wajdi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lebanese writer, actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dair al-Qamar , Lebanon