Vlad Mugur (born 22 June 1927, Bucharest , Romania ; died 22 July 2001, Munich , Germany ) was a Romanian-born German theater director.
He graduated from the Bucharest Theater Institute (directing class) as valedictorian in 1949, but he had already started to direct plays two years earlier, in 1947.[ 1]
In 1965 he became director of the National Theater in Cluj .[ 2] He held this job until 1971, when he defected to Italy ,[ 3] as he disagreed with the so-called July Theses - the attack on non-compliant intellectuals, initiated by the Romanian Communist Party Secretary General, Nicolae Ceauşescu .[ 4] Later, he moved to Munich , Germany , where he collaborated for a while with Radio Free Europe , before moving to Koblenz .[ 5]
In Romania he staged plays at the theaters in Bucharest , Cluj (Teatrul Naţional Lucian Blaga and Kolozsvári Állami Magyar Színház), Craiova , Târgu Mureş , Galaţi , among others.
In Germany he directed plays at theaters in Munich , Konstanz , Hanover , Esslingen , Münster , among others.[ 6]
He staged plays by William Shakespeare , Carlo Goldoni , Luigi Pirandello , Konstantin Simonov , Anton Chekhov , Vsevolod Vishnevskiy , Peter Handke , Walter Jens , Alexei Arbuzov , Albert Camus , Radu Cosaşu , Alexandru Andrițoiu , etc.
He was married to Magda Stief , an actress.[ 7]
The Vlad Mugur Prize - which is awarded by the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Theatre is named after him.
Prizes
The UNITER Prize for 1999.[ 8]
The Theatrical Personality of the Year for 2000, by the Tofan Foundation.[ 9]
References
^ Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.
^ "Istoric" . Archived from the original on 2015-06-08. Retrieved 2018-07-26 .
^ "Avanpremiera spectacolului Hamlet in regia lui Vlad Mugur" . Observator cultural. 2001. Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
^ Constantinescu, Marina (2011). "Vlad Mugur" . România literară . Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
^ Ichim, Florica. "La vorbă cu VLAD MUGUR" . Teatrul azi. Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
^ Monica Matei-Chesnoiu (2006). Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press /Associated University Presses . p. 213. ISBN 0-8386-4081-8 . LCCN 2005014324 .
^ Constantinescu, Magda (2000). " "Să citeşti în palma scenei" " (in Romanian). România literară . Retrieved October 26, 2014 .
^ Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.
^ Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.
International National Artists