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Luda Tymoshenko

Ludmyla (Luda) Tymoshenko is a prominent Ukrainian dramatist, screenwriter, artist, and university lecturer. Known for blending her academic expertise in philosophy and political science with her talents in playwriting and visual arts, Tymoshenko has become a key figure in Ukraine's cultural landscape. Since March 2022, she has resided in Stuttgart, Germany.[1]

Life and career

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Tymoshenko was born in 1978 in North Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv in 2000 with a degree in philosophy. She holds a PhD in philosophy and a Doctorate in political sciences, having defended her dissertation on "Socio-epistemological nature of modern mythmaking" in 2004, followed by a doctoral thesis on "Formation of the political and managerial elite in Ukraine" in 2014. Tymoshenko has lectured in sociology and political science at the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine.[1]

Literary and artistic career

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In 2013, Tymoshenko attended a contemporary drama festival in Kyiv, a defining moment in her artistic career. That year, she wrote her first play, Golden Leggings, which tells the story of two teenage girls at a pioneer camp. This play was later adapted into a short film and selected for the same festival in 2014. Since then, Tymoshenko's works have been translated into several languages and featured at Ukrainian and international festivals. She began illustrating her texts with her own drawings in 2013, adding a visual element to her literary work.[2]

Theater of Playwrights

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In 2020, Tymoshenko and 19 other writers established the independent Theater of Playwrights (Teatr Dramaturhiv) in Kyiv. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, works by the theater's authors, including Tymoshenko's, have been featured in readings across international theater networks.[3]

Artistic career in Germany

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Since relocating to Germany in 2022, Tymoshenko has served as an artist in residence at Schauspiel Stuttgart and participated in several German theater productions, including:

  • Zal'ot [4]
  • Not a Cherry Orchard [5]
  • Ship.Bridge.Body [6]
  • Cat Refugees [7]
  • City X [8]
  • Migrant Birds [9]

Notable works

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Tymoshenko's play Five Songs from Polesia (2021) received the Grand Prix at Ukraine's July Honey competition, won the Ukrainian Institute's Drama on the Move competition, was shortlisted in the Drama UA theater competition, and became a finalist at Poland's Aurora theater competition in 2022.[10]

As a screenwriter, she collaborated with director Arkadij Nepytaliuk on the short film Golden Leggings, which won "Best Live Action" at the Berlin Interfilm Festival (2023). Their second joint project, Lessons of Tolerance, was screened at the Off Camera Film Festival in Kraków, Poland, in 2024.[11]

Works translated into English

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Multiple works of Luda Tymoshenko are translated in English:[12]

  • Signs of the Times (2022)
  • My Tara (2022)
  • Cat Refugees (2022)
  • Hocus Pocus (2022)
  • Five Songs of Polissya (2021)
  • Silly Mykola (2018)

Books

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Tymoshenko's works have been included in various collections, such as Time Travel Through the Present – Theater Texts from Ukraine (2024)[13] in German, A Dictionary of Emotions in a Time of War (2023)[14] in English, and Pokydki ta inshi piesy (2023)[15] in Ukrainian, as well as in several international theater journals.

References

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  1. ^ a b "Luda Tymoshenko". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2022-03-23. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  2. ^ "Spotlight: Luda Tymoshenko | Burgtheater". 2019-2024.burgtheater.at (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  3. ^ "Theater of Playwrights Intro". Laertes Books. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  4. ^ Rothschild, Thomas (2022-06-09). "Zal'ot – Schauspiel Stuttgart – Exilpremiere von Yuri Radionovs Inszenierung von Luda Tymoshenkos Coming-of-Age-Story, die am Malyi Teatr Kyijw entstand". nachtkritik.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  5. ^ "Audiovisal installation "Not a Cherry Orchard" by Luda Tymoshenko and Anna Scherbyna at Schauspiel Stuttgart". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2022-11-04. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  6. ^ Prüwer, Tobias. "Ship. Bridge. Body. – Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden – Das Theatre of Playwrights Kyiv eröffnet das Festival". nachtkritik.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  7. ^ Stuttgart, Schauspiel. "Refugee Cats / Flüchtlingskatzen | Schauspiel Stuttgart". www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  8. ^ Stuttgart, Schauspiel. "City X | Schauspiel Stuttgart". www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  9. ^ Stuttgart, Schauspiel. "Migrant Birds | Schauspiel Stuttgart". www.schauspiel-stuttgart.de (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  10. ^ "PIĘĆ PIEŚNI POLESIA". Ukrainian Drama Translations. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  11. ^ Nepytaliuk, Arkadiy (2024-02-14), Uroky tolerantnosti (Comedy), Olena Uzlyuk, Oleksandr Yarema, Akmal Gurezov, retrieved 2024-11-10
  12. ^ "Luda Tymoshenko". Ukrainian Drama Translations. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  13. ^ Verlag, Neofelis. "Zeitreisen durch die Gegenwart". Neofelis Verlag (in German). Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  14. ^ "A DICTIONARY OF EMOTIONS IN A TIME OF WAR: 20 SHORT WORKS BY UKRAINIAN PLAYWRIGHTS". Laertes Books. Retrieved 2024-11-10.
  15. ^ Покидьки та інші п’єси. Сучасна українська драматургія (in Ukrainian). ISBN 978-617-551-413-9.
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