Rafael Spregelburd
Rafael Spregelburd (born 1970 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine playwright, director and translator and an important representative of contemporary Argentine theater. He lives and works mainly in his hometown of Buenos Aires. His translations of Harold Pinter, Steven Berkoff, Sarah Kane, Marius Mayen Castle, Wallace Shawn and others were won awards and have experienced several publications and productions.
Career
Spregelburd studied acting and dramaturgy at the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires, including at the dramaturg Mauricio Kartun, the director Ricardo Bartis and the Spanish dramatist José Sanchis Sinisterra. In 1996 he abandoned his studies to devote himself fully to the theater can. He began his theatrical career as an actor, but soon began to be interested in dramaturgy. Since 1995 he is also dedicated to the work as a director and directed his own plays especially. He also produces occasional personal adaptations of texts by other authors.
In 1994 he founded his own theater company " El Patrón Vázquez " and thus came on at numerous international festivals, including Festival Iberoamericano de Bogotá, FIT Festival Internacional de Cádiz, Festival de Otoño de Madrid, Grec Festival de Barcelona, Festival de Temporada Alta de Girona, Fronteras Festival in London, Vienna Festival, FILO Festival Intrenacional de Londrina, Gateway to the Americas Festival in Mexico WITH Mostra Internacional de Teatro Brasilia, Santiago A Mil Festival of Santiago de Chile, Festival Internacional de Caracas, Festival Internacional de Badajoz, etc.
Prices
Spregelburd received over 30 Argentine and international awards, including the Spanish dramaturgy price " Tirso de Molina " (2003), the drama prize of the city of Buenos Aires, the Argentine prices " Argentina Gate " (1996), " María Guerrero ", " Florencio Sánchez " and " Trinidad Guevara " and the price of the Argentine daily newspaper " Clarín ".
In 1995 he received the scholarship, " El Teatro Fronterizo " the Sala Beckett, Barcelona, 1998, he was the British Council and the Royal Court Theatre London invited to attend the " International Summer Residency ", a program organized annually at the Royal Court Theatres, for the he was then commissioned as a writer in residence. In 2000 he took part in the writing workshop of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, since 2004 Visiting author of the stage at Rosa Luxemburg Platz Berlin and at the Stuttgart Theater. From 2005, Spregelburd fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Works
" Heptalogie of Hieronymus Bosch"
The main works of Rafael Spregelburd is the " Heptalogía de Hieronymus Bosch " ( " Heptalogie of Hieronymus Bosch" ), a closed cycle of seven pieces. In each of the pieces Spregelburd looking for a contemporary equivalent for the classic seven deadly sins, which are shown on the same rotary table paintings of Hieronymus Bosch:
The German Schauspielhaus in Hamburg presented in 2001 two of these pieces: the appetite and the eccentricity, premiered by Gabriella Bußacker. Also In 2001, the same theater, a staged reading of The modesty, performed by the author.
The stage set in 2004 before the stupidity at the Festival of International New Drama (FIND 4) in a self- created by the author staged reading. The piece was then staged in May 2005 by Tom Kühnel and premiered in a German version. Then Rafael Sanchez has staged The stupidity also at the Theater Basel.
On March 19, 2005 Spregelburd taught a scenic first reading of The panic of one, also on the stage, as part of the FIND 5 The panic was also performed in the Czech Republic in November 2005 in Czech ( " Panika " ), as well as Labem by Ján Simko on Činoherní Studio in Usti Nad. The German -language premiere of The panic was on 13 January 2007 under the direction of Patrick Wengenroth in the Munich Chamber matches held in May 2008, it was directed by Andreas Herrmann at the Lucerne Theater.
The modesty had its German premiere on 24 November 2005 at the Palace Theatre Moers.
The stubbornness was premiered May 2, 2008 at the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt in cooperation with the National Theatre Mannheim under the direction of C. Burkhard Kosminski.
" Bizarra, una saga argentina "
In 2003 Spregelburds theater telenovela " Bizarra, una saga argentina " premiered at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas in Buenos Aires. It consisted of 10 parts, each week a new part was shown. For the 15 -hour saga about 50 actors had to be occupied. Per episode were about 200 people in the auditorium seats.
In addition to the performance of this " telenovela in the theater " it was similar to the known in Germany Panini Sammelbildern an album with accompanying decals to purchase, containing the figures appearing in the play and were exchanged among the spectators.
Other works
The piece Un momento argentino ( An Argentine moment ) was created during the unrest in Argentina at the end of December 2001 ( see Cacerolazo ), as the political and economic crisis in Argentina reached its peak. A round of officers along with wives who had once served the Argentine junta, meet, to see slides from the holiday, while demonstrating outside. The connection between inside and outside, the daughter of one of the military, the " Bomb Girls " here. In the end, she learns that she is not the right daughter, but that he adopted her after her father was tortured to death. The piece, which ends up being a farce, was, inter alia, Listed in Stuttgart Theater 2002.