Yesterday, March 6, 1994, Melina Merkouri passed away at the age of 73. Melina, the longest serving minister of culture in the country, actress, artist and politician with anti-dictatorship action, from a family of politicians, left her international shine as a stamp for the country and has identified her name with Greece and with culture. She always stated that the heritage and essence of Greece is its culture, if we lose that we are nothing…
Melina Merkouri was the one who created the Municipal Regional Theaters to bring the Region into contact with the theater, while her own inspiration was the creation of the institution of the “Cultural Capital of Europe”.
The DIPETHE of Veria opened in 1984 and had its premiere on February 24 (photo from Veria newspaper), in the presence of the Minister of Culture, Melina Merkouris, with Brecht’s “opera of five”. At the premiere he was here as a minister, at the Antoniadeo House of Letters and Arts, which literally shone that night!
