- Vlad Mugur
Vlad Mugur (b. June 22, 1927,
Bucharest ,Romania ; d. July 22, 2001,Munich ,Germany ) was a Romanian-born German theater director.He graduated from the Bucharest Theater Institute (directing class) as
valedictorian in1949 , but he had started to direct plays two years earlier, in1947 . [Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001]In
1965 he became director of the National Theater inCluj . [http://209.85.175.104/search?q=cache:ojDAyaC-xlQJ:www.teatrul-lucian-blaga.ro/DocumenteHtml.aspx%3Fkeyword%3Distoric+vlad+mugur+1965+teatrul&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari] He held this job until1971 , when he decided to emigrate toItaly , as he disagreed with the so-calledJuly Theses - the attack on non-compliant intellectuals, initiated by theRomanian Communist Party Secretary General,Nicolae Ceaușescu . Later, he moved toGermany .In Romania he staged plays at the theaters in
Bucharest ,Craiova ,Târgu Mureș ,Galați , among others.In Germany he directed plays at theaters in
Munich ,Konstanz ,Hannover ,Esslingen ,Munster , among others. [http://books.google.com/books?id=9UW8RCfN3JQC&pg=PA213&lpg=PA213&dq=vlad.mugur+germany&source=web&ots=gyTX8E49Sj&sig=uwQdxjb0_tEWgqQFLcSH39ApuKg&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result]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.The Vlad Mugur Prize- which is awarded by the Hungarian-language State Theater in
Cluj , Romania- is named after him.Prizes
The "UNITER Prize" for
1999 . [Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001]The Theatrical Personality of the Year for
2000 , by the Tofan Foundation. [Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001]References
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