Ivan Stanev

Ivan Stanev

Ivan Stanev photographed by André Rival
Born Varna, Bulgaria
Residence Berlin, Paris
Occupation Theatre & Film Director, Author, Stage Designer, Producer
Website
http://ivanstanev.com

Ivan Stanev (Bulgarian: Иван Станев, born 29 June 1959[1]) is a Bulgarian-born German author, theatre and film director and stage designer,[2] who has been living in Berlin since 1988,[3] and more recently in Paris.

Biography

Ivan Stanev was born in the city of Varna, Bulgaria. His mother, Donka Raikova, was a lawyer and poet and his father, Stanju Stanev, was an engineer and photographer.[4] He enrolled into a German-language high school, while also studying intensively French, Russian and English. He got his degree in Theatre Directing from the National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia. While a student in the academy, he founded a clandestine avant-garde theatre group, which led to severe conflicts with censorship in Communist Bulgaria. Not allowed to work as a theatre director anymore, he went on to study philosophy at the Sofia University, and started to translate the works of Theodor Adorno and Heiner Muller, in the meantime writing plays, poems and essays, all to be published much later.[5] In 1988, he was invited to present his theatre production called The Wound Woyzeck at a theatre festival in West-Berlin. He decided not to go back and to live in exile instead. He began to write in German and to stage his own plays in Berlin.[6] Since 1999, he has also worked on several major Franco-German theatre productions. Due to his growing interest in visual arts, he directed and produced two experimental films: Villa Dei Misteri and Luxor Las Vegas. In 2009 he finished his first independent feature film, shot on 35 mm, called Moon Lake,[7] produced by Donka Angelova. He currently lives in Berlin and Paris and works in both Germany and France.

Writings

In Bulgarian
In German
In English

Films

Films shot on video
Films shot on 35 mm
Web Television

Selected Major Productions

References

  1. ↑ nachtkritik.de
  2. ↑ Theater der Zeit
  3. ↑ Theaterlexikon. Von C. Bernd Sucher. Dt.Taschenbuch-Verlag, 1995
  4. ↑ Postskriptum. Ivan Stanev schreibt lyrische Briefe vom Schwarzen Meer. Von Charlotte Inden. literaturkritik.de, Nr.8, August 2001
  5. ↑ Die neue Freiheit. Herausgeber: Dorte Lena Eilers. Verlag: Theater der Zeit, Berlin, 2011 ISBN 978-3-940737-97-7
  6. ↑ Das andere Ende der Sinnenlust. Ivans Stanevs Inszenierung von "Hermaphroditus" nach Antonio Beccadelli im Hebbel-Theater. Von Christoph Funke. Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 27.10.1991
    • Armer Harlekin mit rotem Beil. Ivan Stanevs "Schuld und Bühne" im Berliner Hebbel-Theater. Von Christoph Funke. Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 01.11.1991
    • Es geht nur weiter, wenn man die Dinge auseinander hält. Künstliche Katastrophen und der fremde Blick des Theaters auf uns. Über Ivan Stanevs Stück "Villa dei misteri". Von Dirk Baecker. Frankfurter Rundschau, 05.04.2002
    • Sag niemals Nil. Ivan Stanevs "Luxor Las Vegas" in den Berliner Sophiensaelen. Von Peter Laudenbach. Der Tagesspiegel, Berlin, 28.11.2002
    • Lapsus Linguae. Von Ivan Stanev. Verlag: Autoren-Kollegium, Berlin 1992. ISBN 3-910140-01-7
    • Postskriptum. Von Ivan Stanev. Fotos: Stanju Stanev. Verlag: Juliettes Literatursalon, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-932955-00-5 ISBN 3-932955-00-5
    • Villa dei misteri. Von Ivan Stanev. Verlag: Juliettes Literatursalon, Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-932955-02-1
    • Luxor Las Vegas. Von Ivan Stanev. Konkursbuch Verlag, Berlin/Tübingen 2003. ISBN 3-88769-800-2
  7. ↑ The Internet Movie Database (IMDb)
  8. ↑ Katalog der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

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