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Aug 16, 2024 · Vsevolod Yemilyevich Meyerhold (born Jan. 28 [Feb. 9, New Style], 1874, Penza, Russia—died Feb. 2, 1940, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in nonrealistic theatre made him one of the seminal forces in modern theatre.
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Meyerhold was born into a prosperous German family in the small town of Penza. His father owned a vodka distillery. Born with the name Karl Kazimir Theodor Mayergold, he had five brothers and two sisters. When Karl turned 21, he converted to the Russian Orthodox Church and changed his name to Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. His first name was a trib...
Meyerhold welcomed the 1917 Revolution and was among the first theater artists to join the Bolshevik party. In the early 1920s, he was even allowed to set up and run his own theater, which existed until 1938. Meyerhold toured the world with his actors, performing in the UK, Germany, France, and Italy. Meyerhold also tried his hand at film productio...
In the height of summer 1939, Meyerhold was arrested in his apartment in Leningrad and taken straight to the Lubyanka prison in Moscow. “I was made to lie face down. They beat me on the soles of my feet and my spine with a rubber strap. They sat me on a chair and beat my feet from above,” he wrote in his letter to Vyacheslav Molotov, the Chairman o...
Three weeks after his arrest, unknown assailants broke into his apartment and brutally stabbed his wife Zinaida, who died from her injuries. Meyerhold was meanwhile sentenced to death by firing...
May 29, 2018 · The internationally acclaimed Stanislavsky sprang to Meyerhold's defense, but shortly after Stanislavsky's death, Meyerhold was arrested (1939). Following seven months of torture, he confessed to "counterrevolutionary slander" and was executed on February 2, 1940.
Vsevolod Emilevich Meyerhold (German: Karl Kazimir Theodor Meyerhold) (1874 – 1940) was a Russian theatrical producer, director, and actor whose provocative experiments in unconventional theater made him one of the seminal forces in modern theater.
May 1, 2019 · Director and practitioner Vsevolod Meyerhold was born in Penza, Russia in 1874 and died in 1940 in Moscow, one of the many thousands of artists to fall victim to Stalin's death purges. He is best known for the landmark production of Gogol's Government Inspector (1926) and for his devising of the actor training system: biomechanics.
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His theatre was closed down in January 1938. In 1939, Meyerhold was arrested and accused of anti-government political activities. Sentenced to death by firing squad on 1 February 1940, he was executed the next day. Plays [edit] Scene from Vladimir Mayakovsky 's The Bath, directed by Meyerhold.
