Rene Maurin
Encyclopedia
Rene Maurin is a Slovene Theatre director, Film director
and screenwriter
.
During his studies of architecture in Graz
, Austria
he became interested in theatre and film. Leaving architecture studies he enrolled the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb
, Croatia
, where he finishes the studies under the mentorship of Georgij Paro and Tomislav Durbešić. He graduated with the first staging of the play IT, by a young Slovene author Rok Vilčnik, which was awarded for the Best new Slovene play at the Week of Slovenian Drama in the year 2000.
After the graduation he focused primarily on documentary and semi-documentary film
in the production of Radio-Television Slovenia. In 2001 he took over the artistic leadership of Ptuj City Theatre which he led until 2008. Notably, in his mandate the neoclassical
theatre building was completely renovated after almost hundred years.
He lives in Maribor and Ljubljana
, Slovenia and directs mostly in Slovenia and Croatia.
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
.
During his studies of architecture in Graz
Graz
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, Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
he became interested in theatre and film. Leaving architecture studies he enrolled the Academy of Drama Arts in Zagreb
Zagreb
Zagreb is the capital and the largest city of the Republic of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb lies at an elevation of approximately above sea level. According to the last official census, Zagreb's city...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
, where he finishes the studies under the mentorship of Georgij Paro and Tomislav Durbešić. He graduated with the first staging of the play IT, by a young Slovene author Rok Vilčnik, which was awarded for the Best new Slovene play at the Week of Slovenian Drama in the year 2000.
After the graduation he focused primarily on documentary and semi-documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
in the production of Radio-Television Slovenia. In 2001 he took over the artistic leadership of Ptuj City Theatre which he led until 2008. Notably, in his mandate the neoclassical
Neoclassical architecture
Neoclassical architecture was an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century, manifested both in its details as a reaction against the Rococo style of naturalistic ornament, and in its architectural formulas as an outgrowth of some classicizing...
theatre building was completely renovated after almost hundred years.
He lives in Maribor and Ljubljana
Ljubljana
Ljubljana is the capital of Slovenia and its largest city. It is the centre of the City Municipality of Ljubljana. It is located in the centre of the country in the Ljubljana Basin, and is a mid-sized city of some 270,000 inhabitants...
, Slovenia and directs mostly in Slovenia and Croatia.
Theatre
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, Croatia - D. HarrowerDavid HarrowerDavid Harrower is a Scottish playwright who lives in Glasgow.His agents are Casarotto Ramsay.-Career:...
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, Imaginarni in coproduction with Cankar Hall, Ljubljana, Slovenia - P. A. C. de Beaumarchais, The Barber of SevilleLe Barbier de SévilleThe Barber of Seville or the Useless Precaution is a French play by Pierre Beaumarchais, with original music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron. It was initially conceived as a comic opera, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie-Italienne...
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, Croatia - T. WilliamsTennessee WilliamsThomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American writer who worked principally as a playwright in the American theater. He also wrote short stories, novels, poetry, essays, screenplays and a volume of memoirs...
, The Two Character PlayThe Two-Character PlayThe Two Character Play, also known as Out Cry in one of its alternate versions, is a play by Tennessee Williams written 25 years after his famous A Streetcar Named Desire. It was one of most personal works...
, Ptuj City Theatre, PtujPtujPtuj is a city and one of 11 urban municipalities in Slovenia. Traditionally the area was part of the Lower Styria region. The municipality is now included in the Podravje statistical region...
, Slovenia - R. Maurin, General MaisterRudolf MaisterRudolf Maister was a Slovene military officer, poet and political activist. The soldiers who fought under Maister's command in northern Slovenia became known as "Maister's fighters"...
, Protocol of Republic Slovenia, Lenart, Slovenia - R. Vilčnik, A. T. LinhartAnton Tomaž LinhartAnton Tomaž Linhart was a Slovene playwright and historian, best known as the author of the first comedy in Slovene, Županova Micka...
Micka, Ptuj City Theatre, Ptuj, Slovenia - P. Svetina The Walrus gets glasses, Maribor Puppet Theatre, Maribor, Slovenia
- S. Grum, The Event In Town of Goga, Croatian National Theatre, OsijekOsijekOsijek is the fourth largest city in Croatia with a population of 83,496 in 2011. It is the largest city and the economic and cultural centre of the eastern Croatian region of Slavonia, as well as the administrative centre of Osijek-Baranja county...
, Croatia - P. VogelPaula VogelPaula Vogel is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play, How I Learned to Drive.-Early years:...
, Desdemona, A Play about a Handkerchief, Croatian National Theatre, Osijek, Croatia - A. SchnitzlerArthur SchnitzlerDr. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.- Biography :Arthur Schnitzler, son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter , was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian...
, Café amoral (La Ronde), Ptuj City Theatre, Ptuj, Slovenia - J. P. Sartre, No Exit, HKD Theatre, RijekaRijekaRijeka is the principal seaport and the third largest city in Croatia . It is located on Kvarner Bay, an inlet of the Adriatic Sea and has a population of 128,735 inhabitants...
, Croatia - L. Hübner, Creeps, Ptuj City Theatre, Ptuj, Slovenia
- R. Vilčnik, Anteater or The Forest of Red Fruit, ITI Center, MotovunMotovunMotovun is a village in central Istria, Croatia. The population of the village itself is 531, with a total of 983 residents in the municipality ; 442 of the residents have Italian as their mother language...
, Croatia - group of authors, In My Shoes, First Stage, First Gymnasium, Maribor, Slovenia
- R. Vilčnik, TO, Slovene National TheatreSlovene National TheatreSlovene National Theatre is a theatre in Maribor in Slovenia,With performances of dramas, operas and ballets the theatre has the largest annual attendance in the entire country of Slovenia .-Performances:...
, Maribor, Slovenia - R. Maurin, Audiction, Intercontinental, Zagreb, Croatia
- F. ArrabalFernando ArrabalFernando Arrabal Terán is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist and poet. He settled in France in 1955, he describes himself as “desterrado,” or “half-expatriate, half-exiled.”...
, The Tricycle, Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb, Croatia - H. PinterHarold PinterHarold Pinter, CH, CBE was a Nobel Prize–winning English playwright and screenwriter. One of the most influential modern British dramatists, his writing career spanned more than 50 years. His best-known plays include The Birthday Party , The Homecoming , and Betrayal , each of which he adapted to...
, The Dumb WaiterThe Dumb WaiterThe Dumb Waiter is a one-act play by 2005 Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter written in 1957; it premiered at the Hampstead Theatre Club, on 21 January 1960...
, Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb, Croatia - H. BarkerHoward BarkerHoward E. Barker is a British playwright.-The Theatre of Catastrophe :Barker has coined the term "Theatre of Catastrophe" to describe his work...
, Art for sale (The Possibilities), Academy of Drama Arts, Zagreb, Croatia
Film
- G. Trušnovec, Caliber 0.46, Radio-Television Slovenia
- R. Maurin, G. Trušnovec Suma sumarum, Radio-Television Slovenia
- R. Maurin, S. Pečovnik, Life As From Inside, Radio-Television Slovenia
- R. Maurin, I Saw Elvis!, Radio-Television Slovenia
- R. Maurin, JUNKARt, Radio-Television Slovenia
Radio
- J. Sigsgard, Robin HoodRobin HoodRobin Hood was a heroic outlaw in English folklore. A highly skilled archer and swordsman, he is known for "robbing from the rich and giving to the poor", assisted by a group of fellow outlaws known as his "Merry Men". Traditionally, Robin Hood and his men are depicted wearing Lincoln green clothes....
, a cartoon for the ears, Croatian Radio Television, Zagreb, Croatia - W. Bauer, Dreamjockey, Croatian Radio Television, Zagreb, Croatia
Translations
- T. Williams, The Two Character Play
- A. Ayckbourn, Callisto #7
Awards
- Golden Laugh, 31st International Days of SatireSatireSatire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement...
, Zagreb, Croatia - Prix Fabijan ŠovagovićFabijan ŠovagovicFabijan Šovagović was a Croatian actor.Fabijan Šovagović was born in the village of Ladimirevci, in the Slavonia region of Croatia. He began acting in his youth and from late 1950s he appeared in many films, becoming one of the most recognisable faces of Croatian cinema...
, 13th Actors Festival, VinkovciVinkovciVinkovci is a city in Croatia, in the Vukovar-Syrmia County. In the 2011 census, the total population of the city was 35,375, making it the largest town of the county...
, Croatia - Golden Lion, 6th International International Festival of Small Stages , UmagUmagUmag is a coastal city in Istria, Croatia.The city hosts the yearly Croatia Open ATP tennis tournament on clay courts.-Geography:It is the westernmost city of Croatia, and the municipality includes Savudrija which is westernmost point of Croatia....
, Croatia - Golden Laugh, 29th International Days of Satire, Zagreb, Croatia
External links
- Official website
- Ptuj City Theatre, Slovenia
- HKD Theatre, Rijeka, Croatia
- Slobodna Dalmacija Interview
- Vjesnik Interview
- Rene Maurin, listing in the Slovene National film fund database
- Vest Interview on Vest
- Radio 101 Review on Radio 101
- DokMa Listing at DokMa film festival