Yenovk Shahen Yepranosian

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Yenovk Shahen

Yenovk Shahen Yepranosian ( Armenian Ենովք Շահէն ; born February 3, 1881 in Bardizag near Izmit , † May 28, 1915 in Ankara ) was an Armenian actor who lived in the Ottoman Empire . He fell victim to the Armenian genocide .

Life

Yenovk Shahen Yepranosian was born on February 3, 1881 to an Armenian family in the village of Barzidag. He was the brother of Krikor Ankut, a mathematician and arithmetician who was also deported during the genocide but survived. After receiving his primary education in Bardizag, he and his family moved to Istanbul .

The last known photo of Yenovk Shahen, published in the Armenian newspaper Verchin Lur on January 4, 1915 , a few months before his murder

During his time in Istanbul, Shah's interest in theater grew after reading the biography of the Armenian playwright Bedros Atamian . He began to play short roles in various pieces. Shahen joined Mardiros Mnagian's theater company . Shortly thereafter, Shahen switched to another theater group in which the Armenian actor Vahram Papazian was already a member. Shahen and Papazian became close friends and worked together. During his acting career, Shahen appeared in other theater groups, including those directed by Felekian and Zarifyan. Shahen was known for his appearances throughout the Ottoman Empire, including in Cairo , Izmir , Izmit and his hometown of Bardizag.

Some of his best-known roles were François Coppée's monologue La grève des forgerons, triboulet in Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse , Iago in William Shakespeare's Othello and Shylock in The Merchant of Venice .

On "Red Sunday" , April 24, 1915, Yenovk Shahen was arrested at his home in the Nişantaşı district of Istanbul . The arrest was part of the arrest and deportation of Armenian intellectuals from the capital to the inner provinces of the Ottoman Empire.

Shahen was deported to Ayas near Ankara , where he and other Armenian intellectuals were imprisoned. He was abducted from prison and murdered near Ankara at the age of 34.

Web links

Commons : Yenovk Shahen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Levon Mutafyan: Yenovk Shahen was one of the victims of the Armenian Genocide. In: Hayern Aysor. Retrieved February 3, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Հիշի՛ր. Armenian Genocide Museum & Institute , accessed April 22, 2014 .
  3. ↑ a b c Teotoros Lapçinciyan : Houshartsun nahadoug medavoraganouti . 1919, p. 36 (Armenian).
  4. ↑ a b c d e f Evrim Kaya: Yenovk Şahen, 1915 kurbanı bir tiyatrocu. (No longer available online.) In: Agos . Archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2014 (Turkish).
  5. ↑ a b c ԵՆՈՎՔ ՇԱՀԵՆ. AV Production, accessed April 22, 2014 (Armenian).
  6. ^ Ara Melkonian: Rediscovering Armenian Bardizag (Bahchejik) in Western Turkey. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Gomidas Institute, archived from the original on April 24, 2014 ; Retrieved April 22, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Jacques Derogy; Foreword by Gérard Chaliand: Resistance and revenge: the Armenian assassination of the Turkish leaders responsible for the 1915 massacres and deportations . Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, USA 1990, ISBN 0-88738-338-6 , pp. 12–13 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  8. ↑ Who were the prisoners at Ayash and what happened to them? (PDF) Gomidas Institute, accessed April 22, 2014 .
  9. ^ Levon A. Saryan: The Arrest and Incarceration of the Armenian Intellectuals at Ayash: April 24, 1915 - July 25, 1915 . In: Armenian Review . 28, No. 2, 1975, ISSN  0004-2366 , pp. 115-137.
  10. ↑ Grigoris Balakian : Armenian Golgotha: a memoir of the Armenian genocide, 1915-1918 . 1st Vintage Books ed. Vintage Books, New York 2010, ISBN 1-4000-9677-4 , pp. 63 .
personal data
SURNAME Yepranosian, Yenovk Shahen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ենովք Շահէն (hyS)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Armenian actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 3, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Bardizag at Izmit
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1915
Place of death Ankara