Vlad Mugur

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title: "Vlad Mugur" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["german-people-of-romanian-descent", "romanian-defectors", "romanian-expatriates-in-italy", "romanian-expatriates-in-germany", "romanian-theatre-directors", "1927-births", "2001-deaths"] description: "Romanian-born German theater director" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_Mugur" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Romanian-born German theater director ::

Vlad Mugur (born 22 June 1927, Bucharest, Romania; died 22 July 2001, Munich, Germany) was a Romanian-born German theater director.

He graduated from the Bucharest Theater Institute (directing class) as valedictorian in 1949, but he had already started to direct plays two years earlier, in 1947.

In 1965 he became director of the National Theater in Cluj. He held this job until 1971, when he defected to Italy, as he disagreed with the so-called July Theses- the attack on non-compliant intellectuals, initiated by the Romanian Communist Party Secretary General, Nicolae Ceauşescu. Later, he moved to Munich, Germany, where he collaborated for a while with Radio Free Europe, before moving to Koblenz.

In Romania he staged plays at the theaters in Bucharest, Cluj (Teatrul Naţional Lucian Blaga and Kolozsvári Állami Magyar Színház), Craiova, Târgu Mureş, Galaţi, among others.

In Germany he directed plays at theaters in Munich, Konstanz, Hanover, Esslingen, Münster, among others.

He staged plays by William Shakespeare, Carlo Goldoni, Luigi Pirandello, Konstantin Simonov, Anton Chekhov, Vsevolod Vishnevskiy, Peter Handke, Walter Jens, Alexei Arbuzov, Albert Camus, Radu Cosaşu, Alexandru Andrițoiu, etc.

He was married to Magda Stief, an actress.

The Vlad Mugur Prize- which is awarded by the Cluj-Napoca Hungarian Theatre is named after him.

Prizes

The UNITER Prize for 1999.

The Theatrical Personality of the Year for 2000, by the Tofan Foundation.

References

References

1. Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.
2. "Istoric".
3. (2001). "Avanpremiera spectacolului Hamlet in regia lui Vlad Mugur". Observator cultural.
4. Constantinescu, Marina. (2011). "Vlad Mugur". [[România literară]].
5. Ichim, Florica. "La vorbă cu VLAD MUGUR". Teatrul azi.
6. Monica Matei-Chesnoiu. (2006). "Shakespeare in the Romanian Cultural Memory". [[Fairleigh Dickinson University Press]]/[[Associated University Presses]].
7. Constantinescu, Magda. (2000). ""Să citeşti în palma scenei"". [[România literară]].
8. Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.
9. Article in the Romanian newspaper Ziua, July 24, 2001.

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