Albert Boadella

Albert Boadella (* July 10, 1943 in Barcelona, Spain) is the founder and director of the Catalan theater group Els Joglars.

Based on the classic pantomime, this group has developed a very unique aesthetic since 1962. Boadella is the only one who has since the beginning. Besides his work as a director, he gives courses at the Institut de Teatre Barcelona. He has written numerous plays, films, and television series and stages, mainly in collaboration with his theater group. Since 1973, the Group is organized beginnings in Barcelona, ​​in Pruit near Vic. Boadella is one of the biggest critics of the Catalan nationalism movement and of his opponents like a " Bufón " dubs ( " fool "), an insult, it takes is a reward.

The group began in 1962 as a theater company of the Spanish Teatro Independiente, but soon developed into a nationally and internationally sought-after company, and so also survived the end of the Francoist regime, while dissolved most of the other groups.

In 1977, he was forced to flee into exile in France since the play had La Torna about Chez Heinz / Georg Michael Welzel, the displeasure of the military drawn up. Four members of his group were sentenced to two years in prison. In the next few years the group has been completely restructured and since the mid- 1980s Boadella working again together with a solid base of actors.

1999, he and his group with the Medalla de Oro de Bellas Artes has been excellent, the highest art award in Spain.

External links and sources

• Albert Boadella ( Spanish): Memorias de un Bufón. Espasa Calpe, Madrid 2001 ( autobiography)
• Homepage of Els Joglars ( Catalan / Spanish / English )
• Information about the pieces on Cervantes Virtual with numerous pictures ( Spanish)

• Man
• Spaniard
• Theater director
• Born in 1943