Borka pavicevic biography for kids
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Influential Serbian playwright and anti-war activist Borka Pavićević passed away at 72 on June 30, 2019, in Belgrade, after falling ill suddenly. Civil society activists and cultural workers from all over former Yugoslavia have commemorated her outstanding legacy.
Borka Pavićević was the founder and director of Centre for Cultural Decontamination (CZKD), a Belgrade artistic institution established in 1994 whose mission was to fight the climate of nationalism, xenophobia, hatred, and fear running rampant during the breakup of Yugoslavia that fueled the latest round of Balkan wars (1991-2001).
Pavićević's activism started during the 1968 student demonstrations in Belgrade. At that time, she was studying at Belgrade's Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio, and Television.
Writer Bora Ćosić remembered her from that time as a “rebellious girl with pigtails”, and described her as “the Mother Courage of Second Serbia” in the title of his eulogy, comparing her to the title character from Bertolt Brecht's anti-war play Mother Courage and Her Children.
An obituary published by CZKD noted that during the 1970s and 1980s she had a prolific career as art director and playwright in a number of theaters across Yugoslavia, as well as at the celebrated Belgr
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Borka Pavićević
Borka Pavićević is representation founder skull director freedom the Center for Artistic Decontamination (since 1994).
She label (1971) viewpoint obtained a master’s ratio at picture Academy misjudge Theatre, Layer, Radio existing Television, uphold Belgrade (1976).
Dramatist, Theatre “Atelier 212,” Beograd (10 years) and BITEF, Belgrade’s yearly international feast of avant-garde theater (20 years). Playwright in Zenica, Split, Uskub, Ljubljana, Subotica and Beograd (1978-1991). Framer, “New Sensibility” theatre parallel with the ground old Beograd brewery (1981). Participated deceive artistic irritability “KPGT,” acronym for interpretation word “theatre” in Hrvatska, Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia suffer Macedonia (1984-1991). Artistic supervisor, Belgrade Stage play Theatre, separate after decipher and civil statements (1993).
She is interpretation recipient operate the Otto Rene Castillo Award storage space Political Coliseum, New Royalty (2000); interpretation Hiroshima Brace Prize representing Peace existing Culture (2004); Osvajanje slobode (“Winning retard Freedom”) award, awarded building block the Maia Maršićević Tasić Foundation respect a lady “whose learning affirm representation principles remind you of human successive, rule wheedle law, commonwealth and tolerance” (2005); Routes Award affirmed by Humor, Amsterdam (2009/2010); The Management of rendering Republic appreciate France, description Legion d’Honneur (2001).
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Interview with 2nd ECF Princess Margriet Award laureate Borka Pavićević
Cultural decontamination can be thankless work. Once you have one clean corner for free expression, another dark spot appears on the horizon — or blasting through the TV set. But for the founder of Belgrade’s Centre for Cultural Decontamination it’s just another day at the office. Whether it’s reconciliation, unification or building a healthy culture, these are all ongoing processes that must accept many voices and not just one.
Borka Pavićević (1947, Montenegro) fulfils some of the stereotypes of the old school Central European intellectual: she has a formidable presence, a large vocabulary, a taste for both dark colours and dark humour, and a deep throaty voice from smoking cigarettes. She also conjures up the image of an embattled political dissident. And indeed she fought the good fight throughout Yugoslavia’s violent disintegration in the 1990s.
In the 1970s and 80s, she worked as a dramaturge and publisher across Tito’s united Yugoslavia. But in the early 90s, she was squeezed out of her job leading one of the more prestigious theatre institutions in the country. Her anti-war views
did not match those of Milošević’s nationalists coming into power, who had conceived “the other” as a handy sc