The Berlin theater director did not accept the outstretched hand of Attila Vidnyánszky



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He published an open letter on the National Theater website Attila Vidnyánszky, to the director of the Berliner Ensemble, Oliver Reeseaddressed to. Reese, who supported teachers and students at the University of Theater and Film, canceled his company’s participation in the MITEM festival organized by the National Theater and last week he attended an international round table on the SZFE topic.

Vidnyánszky wrote in response to this, lamenting that Reese “sees as an achievement if he can contribute to the failure of an art event in another country, and proudly declares it.”

I am surprised that you hope that if BE does not attend the festival and encourages others to do the same, MITEM will lose its international character. I was struck by the pride that came from expressing this position and the political action.

Writes the director of the National Theater. He later writes that he says “This is NOT a good time for art to bridge political divisions” and that Reese “also cut off the slightest possibility of so-called normal European communication.”

It is important to make clear what the responsibility of those who kicks in the dialogue is, who does not accept the extended hand, who punishes with their political activism and, ultimately, only exacerbates the divisions that are already making life difficult for everyone. of us –

writes the director of the National Theater, the president of the Hungarian Theater Society, the vice-rector for art of the Kaposvár University, the president of the board of directors of the Theater and Film Foundation founded in 2020, under whose direction five people However Instead of talking with them, Vidnyánszky attacked the SZFE that disagreed with him in the government media, and then Gábor Szarka appointed a former mechanized execution officer as chancellor of the SZFE, who recently expressed it, defending the designation of the board of trustees and the change in the university model, defended the SZFE students who had been blocking their university for more than 70 days “decades of destruction ”.



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