Les Kurbas

Les Kurbas (Ukrainian Лесь Курбас; Complete name Oleksandr - Zenon Stepanovych Kurbas [ Олександр - Зенон Степанович Курбас ], actually Janovyč [ Янович ]; born February 25, 1887 in Sambir, Austria - Hungary, † November 3, 1937 in Sandarmoch at Medvezhyegorsk, Karelian ASSR ) was a Ukrainian actor and director.

Life

In addition, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Yevgeny Vakhtangov and several other directors he belonged to the Soviet avant-garde theater of the 1920s and 1930s. From 1907 he studied philosophy and theater studies at the University of Vienna. After completing his studies, he appeared as an actor.

After the February Revolution of 1917 he organized the drama studio he founded new by putting more emphasis on style and aesthetics. His idea of a philosophical theater needed specially trained actor. As 1919 Milodyi Teatr the Shevchenko Theater of the Ukrainian Sovietrepublik merged with the State Playhouse, Kurbas was co-director and staged an interpretation of Taras Shevchenko's poem Haidamaky, which was a great success. During the riots in 1920 in Kiev, Kurbas organized the touring theater Kyidramte, was acting on and focused on governance and teaching, in the belief that theater is a powerful political tool. 1922 had he transformed Berezil Theater 400 employees and was regarded as the best theater in the Ukraine. Kurbas pieces provoked the Ukrainian government, he moved to Moscow in order to escape persecution. In 1933 he was arrested and killed in 1937 as part of a mass shooting.