The director, Stavros Doufexis, died at the age of 91, as the journalist Giorgos Sarigiannis announced on social media.
Stavros Doufexis had a long career in the theater. Stavros Doufexis had collaborated with state theaters and private troupes, had been a director at the Municipal Theater of Bielefeld, and had adapted and translated works, mainly from the area of ancient drama.
Stavros Doufexis was born in Nafplio in 1933. He studied law in Athens, acting at the “Max Reinhard” Seminar in Vienna, theater and art history in Berlin. He studied and worked at Brecht’s Berliner Ensemble (Berlin), as well as at the Comedy Opera.
He also studied under the German leading modernist choreographer Mary Wiegmann and the Austrian director Walter Felsenstein. Since 1959, as temporary or permanent first director, he has directed more than eighty performances on state stages in the German-speaking world.
At the same time, he was director of the Municipal Theater of Bielefeld. He adapted and translated works, mainly from the area of ancient drama. Music, rhythm and movement have always been important elements in his work.
He worked closely with musicians, choreographers and mimes on works such as Aristophanes’ The Horsemen and the Hens, Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet and As You Like It, Eugene Lampis’ Italian Straw Hat and Georg’s Leontius and Lena Buchner.
He returned to Greece in 1974. He directed for the National Theater Shakespeare’s The Night of the String, Brecht’s Visions of Simone Massard (1976), Troades (1983), Life of Galileo (1998).
At the State Theater of Northern Greece, he directed Margarita Lymberakis’ Holy Prince (1977), Trikymia (2002).
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