Jeanette Spassova (Bulgarian: Жанет Ð¡Ð¿Ð°Ñ Ð¾Ð²Ð°, born 27
January 1962) is a Bulgarian-German actress.The daughter of actor and
general theatre administrator Vassil Spassov and his wife Teresa
Azaryan (sister of director Krikor Azaryan), Spassova grew up in
Sofia. She attended the Galabov Gymnasium, a German-language secondary
school in Sofia, and then studied drama at the Krastyo Sarafov
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. While still a student she
met author and director Ivan Stanev. She was one of the founder
members of Stanev's first theatre company, and together they developed
their own special language for theatre. This provoked a fierce
reaction from the board of censors in Bulgaria, an Eastern Bloc state
at the time, and led to Stanev being temporarily barred from
exercising his professionIn 1987 Spassova was engaged by the State
theatre “ Sofia†in Sofia, where she made her debut in the role of
Marie in Stanev's production Die Wunde Woyzeck. In 1988 Heiner Müller
invited the company to stage the production in West Berlin. After this
guest performance, which formed part of the Heiner-Müller Werkschau,
Stanev did not return to Bulgaria. In 1989 he invited Spassova to
Munich, where she played the leading role in Stanev's collage
Betrogen/Gestern nach einem sonnigen Nachmittag at the Studiotheater
München. In 1990 Spassova moved to Berlin, founded an international
theatre company with Stanev and performed at the Hebbel-Theater and
the Podewil.In 1996 she signed on with the Volksbühne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and until 2000 performed there in numerous
productions by Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler and Penelope Wehrli,
among others. She went on to work as a free-lance actress in Basel
(Theater Basel), Munich (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Salzburg
(Salzburger Festspiele) and continued to work with Ivan Stanev and his
ensemble in Berlin and France.
January 1962) is a Bulgarian-German actress.The daughter of actor and
general theatre administrator Vassil Spassov and his wife Teresa
Azaryan (sister of director Krikor Azaryan), Spassova grew up in
Sofia. She attended the Galabov Gymnasium, a German-language secondary
school in Sofia, and then studied drama at the Krastyo Sarafov
National Academy for Theatre and Film Arts. While still a student she
met author and director Ivan Stanev. She was one of the founder
members of Stanev's first theatre company, and together they developed
their own special language for theatre. This provoked a fierce
reaction from the board of censors in Bulgaria, an Eastern Bloc state
at the time, and led to Stanev being temporarily barred from
exercising his professionIn 1987 Spassova was engaged by the State
theatre “ Sofia†in Sofia, where she made her debut in the role of
Marie in Stanev's production Die Wunde Woyzeck. In 1988 Heiner Müller
invited the company to stage the production in West Berlin. After this
guest performance, which formed part of the Heiner-Müller Werkschau,
Stanev did not return to Bulgaria. In 1989 he invited Spassova to
Munich, where she played the leading role in Stanev's collage
Betrogen/Gestern nach einem sonnigen Nachmittag at the Studiotheater
München. In 1990 Spassova moved to Berlin, founded an international
theatre company with Stanev and performed at the Hebbel-Theater and
the Podewil.In 1996 she signed on with the Volksbühne am
Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz and until 2000 performed there in numerous
productions by Frank Castorf, Christoph Marthaler and Penelope Wehrli,
among others. She went on to work as a free-lance actress in Basel
(Theater Basel), Munich (Münchner Kammerspiele) and Salzburg
(Salzburger Festspiele) and continued to work with Ivan Stanev and his
ensemble in Berlin and France.
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