Alessandro Fersen (5 December 1911 â€" 3 October 2001) was a
Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and
drama teacher.Born Aleksander Fajrajzen in Šódź to a Jewish family,
Fersen he moved to Genoa with his family in 1913. A student under
Giuseppe Rensi, in 1934 he graduated in philosophy from the University
of Genoa with a thesis later published under the title L'Universo come
giuoco ("The Universe as a game"). Due to the racial laws of 1938 he
moved to Paris (where he attended the Collège de France) and then in
Eastern Europe. Back in Italy in 1943, he participated in the
resistance in Liguria, in a partisan group linked to the Italian
Socialist Party, before working in Switzerland, where he became
friends with Emanuele Luzzati and Giorgio Colli.He returned to Italy
at the end of World War II, and after a period in which he devoted
himself to political activity (being a member of the Secretary of the
National Liberation Committee of Genoa and Liguria) and journalism (as
a collaborator of newspapers Il Lavoro and Corriere del Popolo), in
1947 he began his activity as a theater director with the drama Leah
Lebowitz, a play which he had taken from a Hasidic legend; this play
started with the artistic collaboration, which will last decades, with
Emanuele Luzzati, with whom founded the "Teatro Ebraico" ("Jewish
Theatre"), staging dramas written by him such as Golem (1969),
inspired by the Yiddish folklore, or Leviathan (1974), based on the
techniques of mnemodrama.
Polish-born Italian dramatist, actor, theater director, author and
drama teacher.Born Aleksander Fajrajzen in Šódź to a Jewish family,
Fersen he moved to Genoa with his family in 1913. A student under
Giuseppe Rensi, in 1934 he graduated in philosophy from the University
of Genoa with a thesis later published under the title L'Universo come
giuoco ("The Universe as a game"). Due to the racial laws of 1938 he
moved to Paris (where he attended the Collège de France) and then in
Eastern Europe. Back in Italy in 1943, he participated in the
resistance in Liguria, in a partisan group linked to the Italian
Socialist Party, before working in Switzerland, where he became
friends with Emanuele Luzzati and Giorgio Colli.He returned to Italy
at the end of World War II, and after a period in which he devoted
himself to political activity (being a member of the Secretary of the
National Liberation Committee of Genoa and Liguria) and journalism (as
a collaborator of newspapers Il Lavoro and Corriere del Popolo), in
1947 he began his activity as a theater director with the drama Leah
Lebowitz, a play which he had taken from a Hasidic legend; this play
started with the artistic collaboration, which will last decades, with
Emanuele Luzzati, with whom founded the "Teatro Ebraico" ("Jewish
Theatre"), staging dramas written by him such as Golem (1969),
inspired by the Yiddish folklore, or Leviathan (1974), based on the
techniques of mnemodrama.
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