1. Background

2. Awards

3. List of some of Neziraj’s staged plays
    2017–2018  2015–2016  2013–2014  2011–2012  2009 - 2010  2007–2008  2005–2006  2002–2004 

4. Reviews

5. Interviews / Texts

6. Existing translations of his plays

7. References

8. External links

Jeton Neziraj is a playwright from Kosovo. He was the Artistic Director of the National Theatre of Kosovo and now he is the Director of Qendra Multimedia, a cultural production company based in Prishtina.

Background

He has written over 25 plays that have been staged [over 50 productions] and performed in Europe as well as in the USA. His plays and his writings have been translated and published in more than 15 languages, such as: [https://www.fischer-theater.de/theater/autor/jeton-neziraj/20643 German], English, French, Italian, Slovak, Macedonian, Slovenian, Croat, Romanian, Bosnian, Spanish, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian etc. His play, "Liza is sleeping" won the first prize in a national competition for Albanian plays, organised by the Publishing House, "Buzuku" and it had its premiere in the National Theatre of Kosovo in 2007. He has written several screenplays, which have been produced in Kosovo. He wrote the screenplay for the feature film "Donkeys of the Border", that had its premiere in October 2010 and since then has been shown at various international festivals.

Neziraj is the author of many articles on cultural and political issues, published in local and international magazines and journals. He is also the author of various books, including a book on the famous Kosovar actor Faruk Begolli. Neziraj is the founder and the director of Qendra Multimedia, a cultural production company based in Pristina. Neziraj was Professor of Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Pristina during the year 2007-2008. He has given speeches and has run theater workshops at several festivals, conferences and universities throughout the world.

As a playwright, he has worked with theatres and companies such as: Volkstheater (Vienna, Austria), National Theater of Wales (Cardiff, Wales), National Theater of Montenegro, Luzerner Theater, the National Theatre of Kosovo (Pristina), the National Theatre of Macedonia (Bitola), Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany), Luzerner Theater (Luzern, Switzerland), International Theatre Festival MESS (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Bitef Theater (Belgrade, Serbia), the Albanian Drama Theatre (Skopje, Macedonia), Teater de Vill (Stockholm, Sweden), The Internationalists (New York - USA), Markus Zohner Theater Company (Lugano, Switzerland), L'Espace d'un instant (Paris, France), Gare au Théâtre (Paris, France), the Oda Theatre (Pristina), Geral W. Lynch Theater (New York, USA), theater nomad (London, UK), Yale Drama Coalition (New haven, USA), Dodona Theatre (Pristina), etc.

Neziraj's plays have been performed in many important theatre festivals in Europe, including: Festival Internazionale del Teatro - Lugano, International Theater Festival "Protected territory" - Slovakia, MESS Sarajevo, Desire Festival - Novi Sad, VIE FESTIVAL - Modena, euro-scene - Leipzig, Die Besten aus dem Osten - Vienna, EX PONTO: International Performing Arts Festival - Lubljana, Zoom Festival - Rijeka, Experimental Theatre Festival Shanghai, etc.

He is member of the European Cultural Parliament and Kosovo coordinator of the EURODRAM network. He was board member of Dokufest (Prizren), and Kosovo patron for the New Plays from Europe Festival in Wiesbaden.

“Kafka from the Balkan” – Theater der Zeit - December 2016

“Jeton Neziraj’s plays are inspired by Rock’n’Roll, political cabaret and the brazenness of William Shakespeare. More than 20 plays he has written until now. Lots of them were translated and performed in Europe and the USA. In Turkey he is a well known author. […] Some of his plays are inspired by famous films or theater plays – like “Peer Gynt from Kosovo”. Others make you laugh just because of their titles... [...] Actually, his art disgruntles some people this much, that his latest premiere had to be staged under police protection even in Kosovo.” – Der Spiegel, Germany (June 2017)

Awards

With his play "Lisa is sleeping" he won the first prize at "Buzuku" competition for the best Albanian Play in 2006.

He is the 2011 winner of the INPO prize for “Accelerating the debate".

His play "One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater" won the Special Award at the 8th edition of the JoakimInterFest (2013). Motivation of the international Jury was: "brave and non compromise play".

He won the prize for the "Best play" in the National Drama Festival in Ferizaj, 2016, for the play "A theater play with four actors...".

In 2018, European Union Office in Kosovo awarded him with the “European of the Year” award. This award is granted to individuals whose work and achievements have promoted European ideas and values.

List of some of Neziraj’s staged plays

2017–2018

• "PEER GYNT FROM KOSOVO" KOSOVALI PEER GYNT - Turkish State Theater in Istanbul (2018)
• "LISA IS SLPEEPING" [https://www.dinatiyatro.com/shows Günah Çıkarma] - [Dina Tyiatro] Turkey, 2018
• "THE HYPOCRITES OR THE ENGLISH PATIENT" - [Qendra Multimedia], 2018
• "SWORN VIRGIN" - [forever productions Zurich & [http://www.schlachthaus.ch/spielplan/detail.php?spielpunkt_id=3785 Schlachthaus Theater Bern] & Theater Winkelwiese Zürich & Kleintheater Luzern & Kellertheater Winterthur] (2018)
• "THE WINDMILLS" ["Mullinjët e erës"] - [CTC - Skopje/Shkup] (2018)
• "MBRETI GJUMASH" - [City Theater - Kumanovë] (2018)
• "PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET" - Théâtre de l’Opprimé // Théâtre national de Syldavie / Maison d’Europe et D’Orient - Paris (2017)
• "55 SHADES OF GAY" - Qendra Multimedia (2017)
• "PEER GYNT FROM KOSOVO" - Qendra Multimedia (2017)
• "THE WINDMILLS" ["Die Windmühlen"] - Theater Heilbronn (2017)
• "BORDEL BALKAN" - National Theater of Kosovo (2017)

2015–2016

• "CARLA DEL PONTE TRINKT IN PRISTINA EINEN VANILLA CHAI LATTE" - Jochen Roller, Berlin, & FFT, Düsseldorf & Qendra Multimedia, Prishtina (2016)
• "A PLAY WITH FOUR ACTORS AND SOME PIGS AND SOME COWS AND SOME HORSES AND A PRIME MINISTER AND A MILKA COW AND SOME LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL INSPECTORS" - Qendra Multimedia, Prishtina (2016)
• "LISA IS SLEEPING" ["Lilza UYUYOR"] - Menfi Tiyatro - Istanbul (2016)
• "YUE MADELEINE YUE" ["Şehir Büyüyor"] - Tiyatro TEMAS - Istanbul (2016)
• "KOSOVO FOR DUMMIES" - Schlachthaus Theater Bern, Theater Winkelwiese Zürich, Kleintheater Luzern (2015)
• '"THE BRIDGE" - Spinning Dot Theatre - Michigan (2015)
• "WAR IN TIMES OF LOVE" [La Guerre au Temps de l’Amour] - THÉÂTRE DU GRENIER - Bougival / Compagnie GRAINS DE SCÈNE (2015)
• "o.REST.es IN PEACE" - National Theater of Montenegro (2015)
• "GENERAL OF THE DEAD ARMY" (adaptation of the Ismail Kadare's novel) - Istanbul Municipal Theater (2015)
• "WAR IN TIMES OF LOVE" - Qendra Multimedia (2015)

2013–2014

• "IN PARADISE ARTISTS CAN FLY" - Qendra Multimedia, Prishtina (Kosovo) & Pisa (Italy), 2014
• "ONE FLEW OVER THE KOSOVO THEATER" [Geçtim Ama Tiyatrodan] - Istanbul State Theater (Istanbul) / 2014
• "A P ДEПARTAMENT" - Skampa Theater, Elbasan Albanaia & City Theater, Ferizaj, Kosovo & Skampa International Theater Festival / 2014
• "WAR IN TIMES OF LOVE" [La Guerre au Temps de l'Amour"]] - GARE AU THÉÂTRE & TERMOS (Paris, France) / 2014 "PEER GYNT FROM KOSOVO" - Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany), Teater de Vill (Stockholm, Sweden), Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina, Kosovo) / 2014
• "YUE MADELEINE YUE" [“Büyük Şehir”] - Aatiyatro & BO SAHNE (Istanbul, Turkey) / 2014
• "THE DEMOLITION OF THE EIFFEL TOWER" - Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina, Kosovo) / 2013
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140714182609/http://www.luzernertheater.ch/keine-stucke-uber-krieg "YUE MADELEINE YUE"] – Luzerner Theater - (Luzern- Switzerland) / 2013
• “THE HUSTLER” – Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina, Kosovo) / 2013
• “THE AROUND THE GLOBE CHAIN PLAY” - Lark Play Development Center / USA 2013 (co-written with: Dominique Morisseau (USA), Bekah Brunstetter (USA), Van Badham (Australia), Mixkaela Villalon (Philippines), Janice Poon (Hong Kong), Abdelrahem Alawji (Lebanon), John Freedman (Russia), Ulrike Syha (Germany), Enver Husicic (Netherlands), Zainabu Jallo (Nigeria), Beatriz Cabur (Spain), Sarah Grochala (UK), Sigtryggur Magnason (Iceland), Noe Morales Munoz (Mexico) and Caridad Svich (USA).

2011–2012

• "ONE FLEW OVER THE KOSOVO THEATER"- 2012 - Qendra Multimedia, Pristina / National Theater of Kosovo, Pristina / National Theater of Albania, Tirana / CTC, Skopje / CZKD, Belgrade
• "YUE MADELEINE YUE" - 2012 - Volkstheater - (Vienna- Austria), Qendra Multimedia (Prishtina, Kosovo)
• "THE BRIDGE" [Die Brücke] - 2012 - Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden (Wiesbaden, Germany)
• "THE DEMOLITION OF THE IEFFEL TOWER" - 2011 - Gerald W. Lynch Theater – (New York - USA)
• "THE DEMOLITION OF THE EIFFEL TOWER" –2011 - SARTR Theater - Sarajevo / MESS International Theater Festival – (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
• "PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET" (co-author) – 2011 - Bitef Theater / Kulturanova/ Qendra Multimedia - (Belgrade and Pristina)

2009 - 2010

• "WAR IN TIMES OF LOVE" – 2010, Yale Drama Coalition (USA)
• “THE DEMOLITION OF THE EIFFEL TOWER” - 2010, Fabrique Ephéméride (Paris, France)
• "THE ODYSSEY PROJECT" - 2010 - (co-author with Sebastien Joanniez (France), Sigtryggur Magnason (Iceland), Joel Horwood (England), Ozen Yula (Turkey), Nikolai Khalezin (Belarus) - The Internationalists - (New York - U.S.A)
• “THE GENERAL OF THE DEAD ARMY” - 2010 - (adaptation of the Ismail Kadare's novel) –Albanian Theatre – (Skopje, Macedonia)
• “AN AMERICAN TUNE” – 2009 - (co-author) National Theatre of Macedonia (Bitola, Macedonia)

2007–2008

• "Punch and Judy Murder Love" – (co-author) 2008, Theatre of Prizren (Prizren)
• "The Bridge" – 2008, Children's Theatre Center (Skopje, Macedonia)
• "The Bridge" – 2007, Qendra Multimedia / CCTD (Pristina)
• "Liza is Sleeping" – 2007 - National Theatre of Kosovo (Pristina)
• "War in Times of Love" – 2008 - Nomad Theatre (UK)
• "The Last Supper" – 2007 - Qendra Multimedia & Markus Zohner Theatre Company, (Pristina / Lugano)
• "Madeleine’s war" – 2007 - Oda Theatre (Pristina)

2005–2006

• "Aeneas Wounded" – 2006, Qendra Multimedia & 2007 Glej Theatre (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• "The Subversive Donkey" – 2006, National Theatre (Gnjilane)
• "Speckled Blue Eyes" – 2005, Albanian Drama Theatre (Skopje, Macedonia)
• "Le Roi, Le Clown, L`homme au Fouet et le Barbier" – 2005, Gare au Theatre (Paris, France)
• "The Longest Winter", 2005, CCTD & OMPF (Pristina)

2002–2004

• "Forbidden Lesson" – 2004, CCTD & Dodona Theatre (Pristina)
• "Voyage to Unmikistan" (co-author) 2002, L`espace d'un instant (Pristina / Paris)
• "The Well" – 2002, City Theater Gjilan

Reviews

• Innovatives Theater im Kosovo / Von Organhandel bis Homophobie und Machismo
• [https://magazin.spiegel.de/SP/2017/25/151666496/ Theater spielen im Minenfeld] - Der Spiegel
• Indie theater company gets ready to stage ‘55 Shades of Gay’
• PATRIOTIC HYPERMARKET / in French
• [https://thetheatretimes.com/power-hunger-jeton-nezirajs-balkan-brothel/ THE POWER HUNGER: JETON NEZIRAJ’S “BALKAN BROTHEL”]
• „Postmodern Theatre, Albanians and Serbs“ (Review of "Patriotic Hypermarket"), Balkan Insight, January 12, 2012.
• "One flew over the Kosovo theatre", Balkan Insight, April 24, 2013.
• One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater [article in German]] - Goethe Institute / [review of: One Flew over the Kosovo Theater] (Sturz-) Flug über den Kosovo / IG Freie Theaterarbait [review of: One Flew over the Kosovo Theater] Kuckucksnest Kosovo / Theater Heute [Article in German] [review of: One Flew over the Kosovo Theater]
• Kosovarische Abgründe und Hoffnungsträger / Der Standard, Vienna / Review of Yue Madeleine Yue
• Jeton Neziraj and Kosovo War Theatre / [Review in English on One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater - originally published in La Republica, Italy]
• Il teatro di guerra del Kosovo / [Review in Italian on One Flew Over the Kosovo Theater - La Republica, Italy]
• Les écritures d'une autre Europe n°7 [Review in French on War in Times of Love and The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower, published in BAT, Paris]

Interviews / Texts

• Kosovo war veterans threaten playwright
• [https://theculturetrip.com/europe/kosovo/articles/jeton-neziraj-kosovar-short-story/ Kosovar Writer Jeton Neziraj's "Run, Lola, Run" Intertwines a Marathon Scandal and Medical Emergency]
• [https://theculturetrip.com/europe/kosovo/articles/how-jeton-neziraj-is-leading-kosovos-emergence-as-europes-new-theater-and-literary-darling/ How Jeton Neziraj Is Leading Kosovo's Emergence as Europe's New Theater and Literary Darling]
• Jeton Neziraj: What is seen as shocking today will not be in the future / In English
• Art scene of Kosovo is in cultural isolation / In English
• [https://www.balcanicaucaso.org/aree/Kosovo/Faruk-Begolli-tra-Belgrado-e-Pristina-185924 Faruk Begolli, tra Belgrado e Pristina] / In Italian
• [https://www.observatorcultural.ro/articol/daca-toti-sint-victime-cine-comis-crimele/ „Dacă toți sînt victime, cine a comis crimele?“] / In Romanian
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20140812165650/http://betweentheseasfestival2014.wordpress.com/2014/06/17/exclusive-interview-with-jeton-neziraj-kosovar-politics-and-balkan-theatre/ Kosovar Politics and Balkan Theatre] [Margarita Russolello interviews Jeton Neziraj / BTS
• "PRIMITIVISM DOESN’T GET THE ROLE OF ART" / DUSAN KOMARCEVIC interviews Jeton Neziraj / Kosovo 2.0
• Clearing the Cultural ‘Mines’ of the Balkan Wars / Nemanja Cabricinterviews Jeton Neziraj / BIRN Sarajevo
• Jung, provozierend, kritisch / Von Dirk Auer, DEUTSCHLANDRADIO
• Jeton Neziraj: Iz Prištine, s ljubavlju / Author: Davor Mandić, Novi List, Hrvatska

Existing translations of his plays

• "The Hypocrites or the English Patient", English
• "Sworn Virgin" - German, English, Italian
• "55 shades of Gay" - English, German, Serbian, Hungarian, Macedonian
• "Department of dreams" - English, Turkish
• "The Internationals" - English, Greece
• "a play with four actors and some pigs and some cows and some horses and a prime minister and a milka cow and some local and international inspectors" - English, German, Croatian, Rumanian, French, Finnish
• "The Windmills" - Albanian, German
• "Kosovo for Dummies" - German, English, Macedonian
• "Bordel Balkan" - Montenegrin, English, German, Slovenian, French, Italian
• "Peer Gynt from Kosovo" - German, English, Serbian, Turkish, Italian
• "One Flew over the Kosovo theater" - English, Greece, French, German, Serbian, Turkish, Italian, Slovenian, Macedonian.
• "Yue Madeleine Yue"- German, English, Turkish, Croatian
• "The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower" - Italian, Bosnian, English, French, German, Turkish, Macedonian, Polish, Czech
• "War in Times of Love" - English, German, French, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Polish, Italian and Spanish
• "In Paradise Artists can Fly"- English
• "Aeneas Wounded" - Albanian, English, Slovenian, Serbian, Romanian, Turkish
• "The Hustler" - English, Turkish
• “The Bridge” - Albanian, English, German, Bosnian, Turkish.
• "Patriotic hypermarket"- Albanian, Serbian, English, French.
• “The General of the Dead Army” - Serbian, Turkish
• "Speckled Blue Eyes" - English, Macedonian, Spanish, Turkish
• "Liza is Sleeping" - English, Bulgarian, Turkish, Kurdish
• "Punch and Judy Murder Love" - Albanian, English
• "Madeleine’s war" - English
• "Voyage to Unmikistan" - Albanian, [https://web.archive.org/web/20110728023030/http://www.sildav.org/catalogalbanais.htm French]

References

External links

• Jeton Neziraj
• S. Fischer Verlag
• Mitos Boyut - Turkey
• National Theater of Wales
• Qendra Multimedia,
• International Literature Festival Polip
• Albanian Literature in Translation
• Response to the letter of the Minister of Culture
• Jeton Neziraj wins the INPO prize for “Accelerating the debate”
• Der Traum muss weiter leben
• New Plays from Europe
• The Demolition of The Eiffel Tower by Jeton Neziraj
• La Guerre au temps de l'amour
• Teatro di guerra Cartoline dal Kosovo
• „Let iznad pozorišta Kosova“ na gostovanju u Beogradu
• ‘One Flew Over the Kosovo Theatre’
• Trgovine patriotizmom
• Dijalektički antipatriotizam
• ЛЕТ НАД КОСОВСКИОТ ТЕАТАР
• Sehnsucht im Koffer: Geschichten der Migration zwischen Kosovo und Deutschland
• Teatro di guerra Che cosa è un teatro nazionale?
• Viaggio in Kosovo. La cultura rinasce a Prishtina
• Fare teatro in un paese da ricostrure, con un incontro con Jeton Neziraj
• The History of Kosovo
• Cymru Kosovo
• Kosovo: Der Aufbau eines Staates - Jeton Neziraj
• Phantom ohne Oper
• die Tageszeitung: Engel und Teufel - Jeton Neziraj
• Theatre in Kosovo: The challenges in the new state
• "Einer flog über den Kosovo"
• Roma-Mädchen in der Grube
• Jung, provozierend, kritisch
• Plight of the Roma surfaces in leading Kosovar playwright’s latest political drama
• In Place of War: Yue Madeleine Yue
• Theaterlandschaften in Mittel- und Osteuropa
• Kosovarische Abgründe und Hoffnungsträger
• Kosovo Institute of Peace (KIP)
• The National Theatre of Kosovo in Crisis
• PeaceTalk: Jeton Neziraj speaks to Consortium for Peace Studies regarding “Theatre & War in Kosovo”
• COOPERATION WITH THEATRE OF KOSOVO 2009
• “The Demolition of the Eiffel Tower” coming to NYC
• [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/may/09/kosovo.serbia The Guardian: We shall overcome]
• In conversation – What is a National Theatre? John McGrath and Jeton Neziraj
• Yue Madeleine Yue [Extract - Volkstheater Vienna]]Drama, conflict resolution and the birth of a Kosovan National Theatre
• The Bridge by Jeton Neziraj [Video]]PLAYgrounds: between facts and fiction: New plays and theatre forms

• Charles Watters (politician)
• Charles Watts
• Charles Watts (disambiguation)
• Charles Watts (secularist)
• Charles Waugh Sabatier
• Charles W. Baker Airport
• Charles W. Baker High School
• Charles W. Bardeen
• Charles W. Barkley
• Charles W. Barkley (disambiguation)
• Charles W. Billings
• Charles W. Blair
• Charles W. Bowles
• Charles W. Bowser
• Charles W. "Charlie" Howard
• Charles W. Chipp
• Charles W. Cole
• Charles W Colson
• Charles W. Daniels
• Charles W. Davis
• Charles W. Dow
• Charles W. Downing
• Charles W. Downing Jr.
• Charles W. Dressen
• Charles W. Dyson