Mark Weil

Mark Weil (Russian Марк Яковлевич Вайль, transliteration Mark Jakovlevic Vajl ', Uzbek Mark Vayl, born January 25, 1952 in Tashkent, † September 7, 2007 ) was a Soviet and later Uzbek theater director and theater director. He was the world's most famous theater makers in Central Asia.

Life

Mark Weil was born in the family of a military man. His mother was a graduate of the Theatre School Kiev. He graduated from the department director of the Higher School of Theatre in Tashkent. 1972-1975 Weil worked under the well-known directors Georgi Tovstonogov in Leningrad and Yuri Lyubimov in Moscow. In 1976 he founded the Ilkhom Theatre in Tashkent, the first independent theater in the Soviet Union without government subsidies and censorship. Initially operated a voluntary basis, the ensemble quickly became known by avant-garde productions of provocative pieces. While the theater in Tashkent could bring regime Critical to the stage relatively unmolested, led a guest performance in Moscow and Leningrad in 1982 to the fact that the recommendations of the KGB threatened the theater in its existence. The advent of perestroika prevented but then a government ban. Again and again circled Weil productions to the ratio of the Islamic world on homosexuality, which is officially banned in Uzbekistan.

Many of Weil's productions have been invited to international festivals, including the Ruhr Festival Recklinghausen. Also in Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Israel, Japan, Yugoslavia, Norway, Austria, Russia, Czech Republic and over again in the U.S. were seen productions Weil and Ilkhom Theatre.

In 1994 he founded an acting school under the umbrella of Ilkhom Theatre. He also gave seminars and lectures at several universities in the United States.

On the night of September 7, 2007, shortly before midnight, Weil was stabbed outside his apartment in Tashkent by two men. He died on the morning of September 7 as the result of injuries in a hospital. The perpetrators have not been caught. The motive is unknown.