“He traveled today & Stavros Doufexis, a leading director of our theater, who, in addition to being my teacher at the School, chose me both for the Epidaurei Iketides and for the tragedy Persai in the original, which we recorded (*Yannis Dalianis, Michalis Koukoulommatis, Nikos Arvanitis , Nikos Karageorgos) & will always be in the Museum of Classical History in Munich” he noted. “With a great career in Germany and post-political Greece. Great connoisseur of Brechtian theater, one of the first exponents of the so-called German school in our country. Have a good trip Master,” he concluded.
Stavros Doufexis was born in Nafplio in 1933. He studied law in Athens, acting at the “Max Reinhard” Seminar in Vienna, theater and art history in Berlin. He studied and worked at Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble (Berlin), as well as at the Comedy Opera.
He also studied under the German leading modernist choreographer Mary Wiegmann and the Austrian director Walter Felsenstein. Since 1959, as an extraordinary or permanent first director, he has directed more than eighty performances on state stages in the German-speaking world.
At the same time, he was director of the Municipal Theater of Bielefeld. He adapted and translated works, mainly from the area of ancient drama. Music, rhythm and movement have always been important elements in his work.
He worked closely with musicians, choreographers and mimes on works such as Aristophanes’ The Horsemen and the Hens, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It, Eugene Lampis’ Italian Straw Hat and Georg’s Leontius and Lena Buchner.
He returned to Greece in 1974. He directed for the National Theater Shakespeare’s The Night of the String, Brecht’s Visions of Simone Massard (1976), Troades (1983), Life of Galileo (1998).
At the State Theater of Northern Greece, he directed Margarita Lymberakis’ Holy Prince (1977), Trikymia (2002).
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