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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 Revolutionand 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 production....
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...
Nov 22, 2020 · When Karl turned 21, he converted to the Russian Orthodox Church and changed his name to Vsevolod Emilievich Meyerhold. His first name was a tribute to his favorite writer Vsevolod Garshin, whose short and tragic life ended in pain and suicide.
Nov 8, 2014 · Vsevolod (Karl) Emilevich Meyerhold was born Penza in central Russia (800km from Moscow) in 1874. The son of the owner of a vodka distillery, he was an inspirational Russian and Soviet actor, theatre director, producer and the creator of the Biomechanics system of actor training.
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One of them was Vsevolod Meyerhold, a prominent figure in Russian theatre during the reign of Bolshevik party. The technique of his own making – Biomechanics – became a ground-breaking system that characterised the heyday of soviet theatre.
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.
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When Nemirovich-Danchenko decided to found a new theater together with Stanislavsky, Meyerhold was among the first students who were invited to join the troupe. Meyerhold accepted the invitation, and in 1898 after graduating joined the newly formed Moscow Art Theater.
