GIORGIO STRELHER - PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH

GIORGIO STRELHER - PHOTO WITH AUTOGRAPH
Giorgio Strehler (Trieste, August 14, 1921 – Lugano, December 25, 1997) was an Italian theater director and artistic director.

He was born in Trieste in 1921, son of Bruno, of Viennese origins, and Albertina Lovrich, born in Zara. A figure in the history of theater, he attended the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan under the guidance of Gualtiero Tumiati, graduating in 1940. With Italy's entry into the war, the future director took refuge in Mürren, Switzerland, using his grandmother's French surname, Firmy. In Mürren, the prologue to a great page of Italian cinema was written: Dino Risi, Giorgio Strehler and Franco Brusati, during their internment, gave life to a common dream and founded a Cine Club.

In 1944 he was captured by the Nazi-Fascists and imprisoned for seven days.[unsourced] This experience inspired the song Ma mi..., [Chi lo dice?] of which he composed the lyrics, set to music by Fiorenzo Carpi. Giorgio Strehler declared that Ma mi... is not a song of the Resistance, but a song that speaks of resistance, of not betraying, of knowing how to resist and say no.

Strehler founded, together with Nina Vinchi and Paolo Grassi, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, located in via Rovello and inaugurated on May 14, 1947 with the show The Poor House by Maxim Gorky. In his long career, Strehler connected himself to the Italian and European tradition, and to the most recent twentieth-century theories of dramatic art, with reference to the lessons of, among others, Bertolt Brecht, Antonin Artaud and Louis Jouvet. Attention was given to the use of the stage space, spectacular rhythms and lighting.

On November 23, 1992 he received an honorary degree in literature from the University of Pavia.

He died in Lugano on Christmas night 1997, during rehearsals for Così fan tutte. This would have been his first direction at the new Piccolo Teatro in largo Greppi, which he never inaugurated. The funeral, with great participation of citizens and authorities, took place two days later in Milan, starting from the Piccolo Teatro in via Rovello. His ashes are preserved in the monumental cemetery of Sant'Anna, in Trieste, his hometown.

Original autograph of the great maestro, on a glossy photo of the time.

date: 1955

A very important piece in the history of Italian theater.

Estado:	Muy bueno
Medidas:	12 x 16 cm