Gcina Mhlope

Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe -Becker [ ɡ | ʱ ina mɬop ʰ ɛ ] ( born October 24, 1958 in Durban; born Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe ) is a South African writer, storyteller and actress.

Life

Gcina Mhlophe was born in Durban in what was then Natal, South Africa. Her mother was Xhosa, Zulu, her father. She worked as a news anchor at Press Trust and BBC radio, then 1982-1983 as a writer for Learn and Teach, a magazine for improving reading ability. Her timbre eventually led to her public appearance as an actress and storyteller. Since then Mhlophe occurred both in South African townships and in numerous cities in Europe and other countries. In 1983, she played a major role in the play Umongikazi: The Nurse of Maishe Maponya. In 1985 she wrote her most famous play, the autobiographical Have You Seen Zandile? In the play, it's about the girl Zandile, growing up in his loving grandmother, but then has to pull to the family of the mother in the Transkei. Topics are the barren land life, the dominance of the "White " and the role of black girls and women in South Africa. In 1986, she played a major role in the feature film Place of Weeping ( in German as: Africa - Land of Hope), which is considered the first rotated in South Africa anti-apartheid feature film. In the same year Mhlophe played another starring role in the film Born in the RSA after the eponymous play, in which she had played the same role. As a director and actress led Have You Seen Zandile? , with which they also abroad was subsequently successfully and for which she received several awards. 1989 to 1990 she was resident director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Mhlophe co-founded the group Zanendaba Storytellers, whose goal is to promote literacy. In 1994 she collaborated on the album The Gift of the Tortoise by Ladysmith Black Mambazo. The following year, she was one of the authors is an adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan. 1999, the nine -piece SABC television series Gcina and Friends aired in the Mhlophe with their stories was the focus and to which they had composed the music. In 2000, she appeared at the Komische Oper Berlin in Peter and the Wolf.

The focus of her work is the telling of stories to keep the memory of the traditions alive and to introduce children to encourage them to read. The telling of the stories she connects with singing, dancing and acting. Gcina Mhlophe tells their stories in four languages ​​of South Africa: English, Sesotho, isiZulu and isiXhosa. The stories combine tradition and current issues. They have been translated into many languages, including the German and Japanese. Mhlophe occurred in many countries, such as Germany with the Cameroonian writer Francis Bebey. She has given numerous workshops on story-telling. On 8 July 2006, she took part in Berlin at the closing ceremony of the FIFA World Cup and there was a story.

Mhlophe promoting the construction of libraries in rural areas and providing them with books that are culturally relevant to the user, among other things, the project Nozincwadi ( mother of the books).

Gcina Mhlophe is married to a German and has a daughter. The family lives in Durban.

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