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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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Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. (1874–1940). His provocative...
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- Early Years
- Soviet Life
- Tragic End
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...
May 29, 2018 · meyerhold, vsevolod yemilievich (1874 – 1940), born Karl-Theodor Kazimir Meyer-hold, stage director. Among the most influential twentieth-century stage directors, Vsevolod Meyerhold utilized abstract design and rhythmic performances.
Vsevolod Meyerhold was a personality of great contradictions, and one of the movers and shakers in 20th century theater. It’s not an exaggeration to say that he influenced the art of...
Nov 25, 2021 · Vsevolod Meyerhold is a Russian and Soviet theater director, actor, and theater theorist, renowned for his actor training system of Biomechanics. This entry provides a brief overview of Meyerhold’s biography, with a specific focus on his engagement with Shakespearean drama before and after the October Revolution of 1917.
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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.
Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. (1874–1940). His provocative experiments in nonrealistic theater made Russian producer, director, and actor Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold one of the most original forces in modern theater.
