ARTICLES BY Deniz Hellberg

Deniz Hellberg is a Scandinavian playwright and theater director. He graduated with an MA combined Hons. (as Theatre director) from Gothenburg University, where he also did post-graduate research as a film director. Today he is artistic director of Saladin Days and Triptyk Inc., and film director for the Omsans Group in Istanbul and Singapore.
cultures perspective
Greek Austerity and Dionysus Festival
by on 06.13.12

The modern Western technocrat of today is hardly a political visionary and the economic solutions provided are highly instable, even flammable.

state of a poetic mind
Jean Genet: Playwright of Crime and Poetry
by on 05.08.12

Genet’s drama is primarily based on the state of a poetic mind, rather than a focus on dramatic sequence and political standpoint for sexual and racial minorities.

inadequacy of words
Samuel Beckett and The Global Waiting for Better Days
by on 03.02.12

The language processing in Beckett’s drama rests on a painful understanding of the inadequacy of words and the lack of identity between human words and the felt reality.

naturalistic manifesto
The Anniversary of August Strindberg and the Swedish Culture Amnesia
by on 01.11.12

Theatre met the ideal demands and the small theatre got just what it needed, and it created Swedish performing theatre history. A total of 24 Strindberg plays were performed, beginning with Miss Julie.