Voydan Pop Georgiev - Chernodrinski
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| Vojdan Pop Georgiev | |
|---|---|
| Born | Voydan Pop Georgiev January 15, 1875 Selci, Struga Ottoman Empire (today Macedonia) |
| Died | January 8, 1951 Sofia, Bulgaria |
| Pen name | "Chernodrinski" |
| Occupation | playwright and dramatist |
| Genres | drama |
| Notable work(s) | "Macedonian Blood Wedding" |
Voydan Pop Georgiev - Chernodrinski (Bulgarian: Войдан Поп Георгиев - Чернодрински; Macedonian: Војдан Поп Георгиев - Чернодрински, trasnliterated Vojdan Pop Georgiev - Černodrinski, January 15, 1875 in Struga, Ottoman Empire, (present day Macedonia) – January 8, 1951, Sofia, Bulgaria) (born Voydan Popgeorgiev Kuzmanov[1]) was a Bulgarian[2][3] and Macedonian[4][5] playwrighter and dramatist from the region of Macedonia. His pseudonym is derived from Black Drin (Cherni Drin, Bulgarian: Черни Дрин), a river flowing through his home town. The most famous of his works is the play Macedonian Bloody Wedding (Makedonska Kărvava Svadba).
He was head of the traveling troupe "Grief and comfort" (Bulgarian: Скръб и утеха), founded in 1901 and renamed in 1902 as "Macedonian Capital Theater" (Bulgarian: Столичен македонски театър). Chernodrinski reworked it later to give the plot and the libretto for the famous opera "Tsveta" by maestro Georgi Atanasov.[6] In the 1960s it was reworked and turned into a film in Communist Yugoslavia. He is considered an ethnic Macedonians in the Republic of Macedonia.
[edit] Works
Besides Voydan's most popular work "Macedonian Bloody Wedding" published in 1900, he published several other literary works as well, including[7]:
- The woodcutters (Дърварите) (1895)
- In the barroom (В механата) (1895)
- Macedonian emigration (Македонска емиграция) (1897)
- Of the head we suffer (От главата си патиме) (1902)
- The slave and the agha (Робът и агата) (1902)
- Evil for evil (Зло за зло) (1903)
- Skilled workers (Майстори) (1903)
- The spirit of the freedom (Духът на свободата) (1909)
- On the river (На реката) (1921)
- On New Year (На Нова година) (1921)
- Tzar Pir (Царъ Пиръ) (1921)
- The storms near Vardar (Бурите на Вардар) (1925)
- Cveta the duchess (Цвета войводката) (1929)
- Slav Dragota (Слав Драгота) (1930)
[edit] References
- ^ спомени на В. Чернодрински, в. “Македонски вести”, София, 1936 г., бр. 70-75 Chernodrinski's memories
- ^ Иван Богданов - "Тринадесет века българска литература", 1983, Наука и изкуство, page. 177
- ^ Кристина Тошева - "Енциклопедия на българския театър: Актьори. Режисьори. Драматурзи", Труд, 2005, ISBN 9789545285028
- ^ Литература на македонскиот јазик, Георги Сталев, Просветно Дело, Скопје 1995.
- ^ The life of Chernodrinski
- ^ "Любомир Сагаев — Книга за операта (8); Book on opera, Lyubomir Sagaev, 1983 (Bulgarian)". bg3.chitanka.info. http://bg3.chitanka.info/mylib/lib/text/8501/8. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ Иван Ивановски, 25 години театарски игри Војдан Чернодрински, Скопје 1990
