Serge Wolkonsky
Sergei Mikhailovich Wolkonski, Prince (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Волконский, scientific transliteration Sergei Michajlovič Volkonskij; . * 4 Maijul / May 16 1860greg at Schloss case, Keila - Joa, Estonia, . † October 25, 1937 in Hot Springs, United States) was a Russian music and drama teacher.
Life
The son who was born in Siberia, Mikhail Sergeyevich Wolkonski looked ideologically always in imitation of his grandmother Maria Wolkonskaja and his grandfather Sergei Grigoryevich Wolkonski, a Decembrist, who took upon himself for his ideals exile to Siberia. Even he described himself as a man of the theater and is just one of the great family of Russian nobility and oldest talent that name.
22 July 1899 to the end of the season 1901 he was director of the Imperial Theatre in Saint Petersburg and Moscow, and also dealt intensively then as a teacher for actors. His attention was especially the gestures and rhythmic movement ( Dalcroze ) to form a new actor type. That's why he founded a " course for Rhythmic Gymnastics " in St. Petersburg and was in close contact with the protagonists of European dance pedagogy in Hellerau near Dresden and Geneva.
He worked as a speaker, writer, critic, had during the Civil War 1917/18 hide and dived in 1919 and again in Moscow to make to the funded Lunacharsky studios for Proletcult a new generation of actors with his " art of living speech " familiar. To this end, he also gave lectures at the " Little Theatre ", was part of its advisory board, as well as to that of the Bolshoi Theatre, where he was involved with maßbeglich to educational curricula for ballet work under its director Jelena Malinowskaja.
1919 ill with typhoid fever, he had - hardly recover - two days in detention ( Cheka ), and escaped death by firing squad. He then went to St. Petersburg to teach facial expressions, to give lectures on the Decembrists - and then but to emigrate in 1921. Since 1926 he worked in Paris as Director of the Russian Conservatory and sponsors of many talents, who had to leave their native Russia (including Marina Tsvetaeva ), worked in London after he lived for a while in Florence and Rome.
His reputation was also remarkable in the U.S. since his lecture tour of the States in 1896. The upcoming development according to power of the fascists in Germany foreseeing, he married the widowed daughter of the late Ambassador of the United States to Serbia, Greece and Romania JW Fairn Mary Fairn - French and traveled one last time, this time in the United States, ostensibly to visit his wife's daughter from his first marriage. His memories ( engl. My reminescences; Russian Moi wospominanija ), he wrote in the years 1921 to 1924, he also published a number of articles to work in the theater.
Works
- The Decembrists. G. Löffler, Riga 1926
- Poslednij the. Mednyj Vsadnik, Berlin 1924
- Pictures from history and literature of Russia. Authorized translation by A. Hippius in the publishing of Emil Friedrich Perthes, Gotha 1898 ( dedicated by the translator of Her Royal Highness the Grand Duchess of Baden), Hln. 318 pp.
- The main thing. Item to gestures in: the theater, weekly for the entire interests of the theater; IV Year, December 29 No 52, Erich Reiss Verlag, Berlin, 1910