Nenad Prokić

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Nenad Prokić
Ненад Прокић
Nenad Prokić
Personal details
Born (1954-09-03) September 3, 1954
Belgrade, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia
Nationality Serb
Political party Liberal Democratic Party

Nenad Prokić (Serbian: Ненад Прокић) is Serbian playwright, theatre director and Founder of the Liberal Democratic Party (Liberalno demokratska partija), Serbia in 2005. A professor of 20th Century Drama at University of Art in Belgrade (Univerzitet umetnosti u Beogradu) from 1995. He was the playwright-in-residence at Yugoslav Drama Theatre (Jugoslovensko dramsko pozorište) in Belgrade (1985-1995) and at Slovenian National Theatre (Slovensko narodno gledališče) in Maribor (1991-1995). He served as the Director of Belgrade International Theatre Festival (Bitef) and Bitef theatre (Bitef teatar) in two consecutive mandates (1997-2005).

Prokić is one of the founders of Belgrade Circle and of Forum of Writers. He is the author of the novel Alpha Foxtrot and of numerous theatre plays. His play Metastable Grail is in the Anthology of Contemporary Serbian Drama. Other plays include: House of Bergmann, Fear for the Border, Homo Volans, Fathers and Forefathers (Dramatisation of Slobodan Selenic), In the Search of Marcel Proust, Dantes Divinus, The Russian Mission, The Last Days of Mankind (Adaptation of Karl Kraus), Le Petit et le Grand Theatre du Marquis de Sade...

Nenad Prokic directed the following pieces for the theater: "Follie a Deux" by Heiner Mueller (Yugoslav Drama Theater), "The Servants" by Jean Genet (Bitef Theater), "Helver's Night" by Ingmar Villqist (Bitef Theater), "Let's Talk About Life and Death" by Krzysztof Byzio (Bitef Theater), "The Unapproachable and Mercy Payable in Advance" by Zanussi/Zebrowsky (Bitef Theater), "Faraway" by Tamara Bosak (Bitef Theater)...

Prokic was MP[1][2] in the Parliament of Serbia in two mandates and he is the Founder and the first President of the Friendship group with Sovereign Military Order od Malta (SMOM) in the Serbian Parliament. His Most Eminent Highness the Prince and Grand Master of Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and of Malta, fra Matthew Festing decorated H.E. Nenad Prokic with the knightly "PRO MERITO MELITENSI" Cross of Grand Officer of the Order Sovereign of Malta, on June 15, 2012.

On Nov. 3rd, 2012 Prokic resigned from the Presidency and the membership in LDP because of lack of democratic procedures in the party.

Distinctions

  •   Grand Cross Pro merito Melitensi

Quotes

  • "Serbia will become a modern country—with Serbs or without them!" [applause] - during the party's founding session.

References

  1. ↑ "Still no consensus on Srebrenica resolution". B92. 8 February 2010. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 
  2. ↑ "Minister for Foreign Affairs of Serbia: daily survey of 19 May 2009". Beta News Service via Girodivite. 19 May 2009. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 

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