Marko Marin (professor)

Marko Marin (3 April 1930 – 10 January 2015) was a Slovenian theatre director, art historian, professor and restorer.^[1] Since 2007, he was an honorable professor of the University of Ljubljana.^[2] In Lower Carniola (Southeastern Slovenia), he was especially well-known after his almost 50 years long work in the renovation of Mirna Castle near the settlement of Mirna, started in 1962.^[2][3]

Background

Marko Marin was born in Gabrovka near Litija, Kingdom of Yugoslavia.^[1] He graduated in art history in 1958 and in theatre direction in 1963 and achieved his master's degree in art history in 1972.^[4] He worked at first for six years with young actors in Koper as a theatre director and then got a job as a professor of theatre direction at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT) of the University of Ljubljana, where he held lectures in the history of theatre.^[1] For two terms, he was the regular deputy of SFR Yugoslavia at the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR).^[1] He held lectures at the universities of Leipzig, Vienna and Barcelona and researched the Jesuit drama, the Škofja Loka Passion Play and the Ruše religious drama.^[1]

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