George Ciprian

Ciprian Gheorghe, actually George Constantinescu, also: George Ciprian, ( born June 5, 1883 in Buzău, † April 7, 1968 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian playwright.

Ciprian came from a Greek family of bakers and soon moved with his mother to Bucharest. At the local Gheorghe Lazar school he learned later Vasile Voiculescu Futurists and the writer of absurd prose, Urmuz, the future leader of Romanian avant-garde know. He then studied at the Bucharest Conservatory under Constantin Nottara. 1907 was his theater debut in the National Theatre of Craiova. The theater of his hometown Buzău carries in his honor his name.

His first self-written piece Omul cu mârţoaga ( in German: The man and his horse ) in 1927 successfully Premiere. His most well known piece Capul de răţoi (premiere in 1940, German: The drake head) is inspired by his friendship with Urmuz. Through its absurd humor and their attacks on the Conservative Established this piece of Romanian avant-garde is attributed and is considered as an early example of the theater of the absurd, that is a form of theater, with the Eugène Ionesco and Samuel Beckett have become famous later. At the end of his life he published an autobiography, Măscărici şi Mâzgălici in which he used, among others, different text versions of Urmuz according to its own statement.