Yevgeni Grishkovetz

Yevgeny Valeryevich Grishkovets (in Russian Евгений Валерьевич Гришковец, scientific transliteration Evgenij Valerjevič Griškovec; born February 17, 1967 at the Siberian Kemerovo ) is a Russian narrator, theater director, writer and actor, comparable with Dario Fo, who also in his country as on international theater festivals such as Edinburgh, Avignon or Vienna celebrated great successes. The choice of home is regarded as the "inventor of Russian Performance" Grishkovets is the city of Kaliningrad.

Life

After the serve of military service in the Navy, he studied Russian philology at the Technical University of Kuzbass Kemerovo. There he founded in 1990, the theater company lodge with which he developed in the following years, more than 20 separate pieces that the group developed jointly from conversation and improvisation. 1998 saw his one-man show How I ate a dog with which he in Moscow at the International Theatre Festival NET ( New European Theatre) came out great. The following year he exhibited at the NET Festival his new piece the same time with similar success before.

Since the theater season 2000/2001 he played his pieces as a regular guest performer at the Moscow Theatre School of contemporary piece. There was simultaneously a staging of his play recordings of a Russian traveler, directed by Iosif Reichel house. In the same year he was awarded the Russian Anti - Booker literary prize for drama. The jury of the national Russian Theatre meeting Golden Mask awarded him the 2000 Innovation Award, the critics group to the Audience Award at the theater season.

In September 2001, he presented his new piece The city finished. The premiere took place at the famous Tabakerka, the Theater Studio of Oleg Tabakow in Moscow. In the following 2002, the world premiere of Dreadnoughts in the Moscow In - Club Ogorod took place, again a theater project beyond the scope of the usual concept of theater in Russia.

Grishkovets lived for a few years in Kaliningrad: ( quote) " ... the former Königsberg. I have this city not just randomly chosen to live, to Moscow and I will go in any case. I'm a hick and do not get along with the Moscow rhythm. Although all of my work is connected with Moscow. The city and the planet tell of life in the big city. Kaliningrad is not a 100 percent Russian city, pleasant to live, in my opinion, an ideal city among smaller in Russia. Also, because it is by the sea. From here I can look at my life and my work in Moscow with distance, without being an emigrant. "

Pieces (selection) and their first performances

  • The Planet - radio play by Yevgeny Grishkovets, translated from the Russian by Stefan Schmidtke - Composition: Tobias Morgenstern - Editing / Director: Gabriele Bigoted - Rundf. Berlin -Brandenburg 2004 - Length: 48'46
  • The planet, 2003
  • Dreadnoughts, 2002
  • The city ( gorod ) by Yevgeny Grishkovets: from the Russian by Stefan Schmidtke; Premiere of 18 May 2002, Theater im Depot / [Ed: Acting Staatstheater Stuttgart. Note: Florian Vogel ... ]
  • The City, 2001
  • Notes of a Russian Traveler, 2000
  • As I ate a dog, 1998

Prose

  • The shirt ( Рубашка ), novel, 2004, from the Russian by Beate noise
  • Rivers ( Реки ) Powest, 2005
  • The Plank ( Планка ), short stories, 2006
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