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Theater director Oskaras Koršunovas told BNS that he was shocked by the death of the former teacher and colleague and emphasized her humanism, tolerance and the importance of opinion in her work.
“He was one of the main people whose opinion was extremely important to me,” said O. Korshunov.
“She saw all the performances and not just one, we always talked, she always attended all the premieres, she was rehearsing. There were several such people: Leonidas Donskis and Irena Veisaitė are really very important to me, ”he added.
O. Koršunovas says that I. Veisaitė was his teacher at the conservatory, he still remembers “incredible lectures” on “Decameron”.
Later, according to the director, the two became friends.
“That great humanity and humanism is just one example for me. Irena was a kind of compass for humanity ”, said the director.
He said that he had always trusted I. Veisaitė’s point of view.
“When faced with some controversial moral conflict, I was always thinking about Irena: how would she behave, how would I look at him. How to finally accept my abuser – in that sense I don’t know another person like that in Lithuania,” said O. Koršunovas.
“At least for me, his posture will remain the same all the time,” he added.
He said the news of I. Veisaitė’s death surprised him.
“I did not allow myself that thought, it was a great blow for me (…) Lithuania lost an intellectual, an intellectual, a human in the true sense of the word. There are very few such people. Really deep and undeclarative humanists. Personally, I no longer know those people, “said O. Koršunovas.
Photo by Julius Kalinskas / 15min / Oscar Koršunov
“Lithuania has lost the depth of knowledge”
Rimas Tuminas, artistic director of Vilnius Small and Moscow J. Vachtangov Theater, says that after I. Veisaitė’s death, Lithuania lost an extremely creative and profound person.
“Lithuania has lost the depth of knowledge that is missing today. In peace to know the beauty, the depth, the mystery of life. We have lost depth, now everything is only superficial, abstract, fast,” R. Tumin told BNS.
He said that he was not friendly with I. Veisaitė, but that he had met him in professional activities.
According to the theater director, I. Veisaitė was able to present even bad performances in a way that would compel him to attend them.
“Although he analyzed and presented a work, he did so in a very creative way, he understood the subtleties of art. She is one of those analysts who could have said about a failed or failed performance with such artistic expression that she thinks I should go see it, ”said R. Tumin.
According to him, recently she was looking for opportunities to come to Moscow, she was interested in the activities of the J. Vachtangov Theater.
“Lately she has been very interested in activities, looking for opportunities to come to Moscow, because she is well known here, and the book that was presented to her here,” said the director.
Photo by Luke April / 15min / Rimas Tuminas
He was also impressed by the benevolence and respect of I. Veisaitė.
“He was very careful, with special respect for the young, with maternal warmth, with benevolence,” said R. Tumin.
The intellectual, literary critic and theatologist Irena Veisaitė surprised with her retained energy, her curiosity and her ability to speak without curtains, says Martynas Budraitis, director of the Lithuanian National Drama Theater.
“It is a great loss, it is a great pity that it happened at a time like this, through all this chaos. But she was a man, an example for everyone with her energy, her curiosity, her curiosity, not everyone comes out like this until such a respectable age to maintain it. He was a close and important person ”, said the head of the national theater.
According to M. Budraitis, her family and parents had been in contact with I. Veisaitė since her school years, and she also had to meet while running the LNDT.
“She was also a heterosexual person, we learned from her to say with courage what you think, not to compromise with your conscience and not to be afraid. We always learned that from her. She always supported young and creative people, that was important: when I started directing the National Theater, I invited her to the Arts Council, she actively participated in that activity. Irena was the first viewer of all the premieres, always saying with simplicity what she thought, what she liked and what she didn’t like, without curtains. You knew it wasn’t being said in a sincere way or that you were trying to avoid it, to beautify it in some way, ”said M. Budraitis.
Photo by M.Vorobjevaitė / Martynas Budraitis
Intellectual, theatrical, literary and human rights activist I. Veisait el died on Friday at the age of 93.
I. Veisaitė was born into a Jewish family in 1928 in Kaunas. During World War II, she was imprisoned in the Kaunas ghetto, rescued from the Holocaust, and hidden by Lithuanian friends.
After the war, I. Veisaitė studied Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University, graduated in German studies from Moscow University in 1953, and graduated from Saint Petersburg University (then Leningrad).
Since 1953, he taught at the Vilnius Pedagogical University for almost five decades. She has published more than 200 articles in the Lithuanian and foreign press on topics of literature, theater, Lithuanian-Jewish relations of the 20th century, history of the Holocaust and, in 2016, a book of conversations with her, the historian Aurimas Švedas.
I. Veisaitė was one of the founders of the Open Society Foundation of Lithuania in 1990, until 2000 she held various management positions in the Foundation, served on the boards of several other non-governmental organizations and was a member of the Lithuanian National Committee for UNESCO.
The scientist has won many state awards and this year she also received the German award – the Grand Cross of Merit.
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