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Stefanos Lineos

Era of Evangelos Papanoutsos

Era of Evangelos Papanoutsos

     When 60 years ago, our great teacher Evangelos Papanoutsos, wrote about the "Epic of the Machine", no one would have believed how quickly it would become a reality. He was writing then but we weren't listening to him.. If he were alive now, I wonder what he would write about the...

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

We remembered and were moved when we spoke last Saturday about Angelos Sikelianos.. And we were happy that for many other friends, the great Angelos and his great era came back to life within them.. The time has come, however, to remember the other great of that era...

The "unknown" Sotiris Patatzis

The "unknown" Sotiris Patatzis

... A text that I have written and published for many years.. And I am bringing it back to the public today, honoring a rare Greek writer.. And most importantly: for example to our youth.. To reduce the explosions, justified many times,...

The monopoly of power

The monopoly of power

April 21, 1967.. The monopoly of power and reason.. Then they imprisoned the fighters.. Today they murder thought,, Fortunately, every year, on these significant days, there are a few Greeks left who forget, for a while, the suffering of other peoples and remember the...

Which United Europe?

Which United Europe?

This elusive, much-sung childhood dream of ours, this unattainable vision of a united, happy Europe that is becoming increasingly unattainable. These romantic evenings that began and ended with political and literary discussions about abolished borders,...

A rare Master

 A rare Master

Ioannis Kakridis, "Barbayannis", as all his students called him, was "A Rare Teacher..." One of the greatest, university, classicists of our country. And we were lucky, our whole generation that due to "social of mind", no...

The trade of war

  The trade of war

The latest, daily, nightmarish threats of a third world war force us to remember the same old ones. The difference is one. Then we had among the states of the former West and East, while now we have among the Shareholders...

What does UN mean?

What does UN mean?

Today we should ask ourselves again what the U.N. finally means. The United Nations Organization.. There is a "standard" answer: To solve the problems of all Nations so that we don't have a second world war again, 1939-1945. .That cost humanity 29...

Barba Giannis... Makrigiannis

Barba Giannis... Makrigiannis

Two hundred years of the Greek Revolution and 200 years of the Greek Makrygiannis (1797-1864) So let's remember him today, with excerpts from his own writings. Closing some "gaps" that may exist in this year's official events... Especially...

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos. We will try, those of us who are still alive, to remember our young years and the echo of that great poetic era. . And I, personally, to remember and transfer here in fragments, little of everything that I experienced a...

Artistic pseudonym of Dionysis Mytilineos, Georgios and Kyriaki Zervakos Born and studied in Messina. He graduated in Athens from the Theater School of Socrates Karantinos and the Educational Association "Athinaion", he studied for a year at the then Panteion and at the RADA Drama School in London. It premiered at the Kotopouli Theater in 1954 and, from then until 1967, played in almost all Athenian theaters. Founding member of the pioneering Movement "Twelfth Curtain" and the first Corporate Troupe of the Association of Greek Actors (SEI), "Arma Theater". General Secretary of the S.E.H. (1965-67) who was dissolved by the dictatorship. Self-exiled in London (1967-70), representative of the labor P.AM. in Europe, a member of the anti-dictatorship movement "Committee Against Dictatorship" and an honorary member of the British Actors Guild. In 1970, returning to Greece, he created with his wife, Elli Fotiou, the "Contemporary Greek Theater" and presented, at the ALPHA Theater, over 50 Greek and foreign plays. In all his theatrical life so far, the works stand out: Goodnight Margarita, I do not pay - I do not pay, Accidental Accident, Key Emperors, Rosenberg, Othello, Macbeth, Oedipus, Dangerous load, Ioanna of Lorabos, Syraro D , My beautiful Lady, Millionaires of Naples, An enemy of the people, etc. He participated in a few film productions (Mia Pentaras Niata, The Countess of Fabrica, Love and Storm, etc.), also in a few TV shows (Verdict, Speak Free, Self-portraits, etc.) and in many radio shows. He has worked (acting, directing, writing and producing) at B.BC. (Greek Section), together with Greek and English actors, with whom they created an artistic group that presented in most Universities of England a program with political and literary texts against the dictatorship. First President and CEO of the Municipal Radio Station "Kyklos" 94,8 FM (1989) and Director of its program, from 1995 to 2001. Municipal Councilor in the Municipality of Athens, 1986-1990. Member of the PASOK, 1989-90. Secretary of Culture PASOK, 1990-1994. Member of the National Youth Council Lambraki (1963), Vice President of the EPON Archive Research Company and the EPON Museum (1993), founding member of the Greek-Turkish Friendship Committee (1987), co-founder of the Greek peaceful organization "Alliance - Stop the War" (2002) ) and Special Secretary of the National Council for Germany's debts to Greece (2010). Responsible coordinator and presenter of many discussions between audiences and experts on political, cultural and social issues, in Theater, Radio and Television (1962-1985). Professor of Theatrical Education at the Maraslio Academy (1983-1990). Participation in conferences and seminars on the current problems of Culture and radio and television, as a representative of PASOK Culture, in Moscow, Brussels, Prague and Avignon, in the summers of 1988,1991, 1992, XNUMX. Many of his texts have been published in the newspapers Kathimerini, Nea, Eleftherotypia, Ethnos and Efimerida ton Syntakton. He has published six books: 1) Some Deaths, short stories, 1957, Mavridis publications, 2) Tomorrow's Theater, study, 1981, Filippotis publications, 3) Struggles and Agonies, thoughts, 1995, Libani publications, 4) The Chain, positions- contrasts, 2003, Proskinio publications, 5) Agios Chaidari, chronicle, 2007, Diogenis publications. and the last 6) A river sea, short stories, ESOPTRON publications, 2014. In 2004 he received the "Emilios Veakis" Award from the Theater Museum. And in 2009 he was honored by the Municipality and the Association of Volunteers of Messina for this "something more" that he did for his special homeland. He and Elli Fotiou have two children, Margarita, Director of the Municipal Radio Station of Athens, and Alexis, an executive of the National Bank Educational Foundation.

Stefanos Lineos

Era of Evangelos Papanoutsos

Era of Evangelos Papanoutsos

     When 60 years ago, our great teacher Evangelos Papanoutsos, wrote about the "Epic of the Machine", no one would have believed how quickly it would become a reality. He was writing then but we weren't listening to him.. If he were alive now, I wonder what he would write about the...

Nikos Kazantzakis

Nikos Kazantzakis

We remembered and were moved when we spoke last Saturday about Angelos Sikelianos.. And we were happy that for many other friends, the great Angelos and his great era came back to life within them.. The time has come, however, to remember the other great of that era...

The "unknown" Sotiris Patatzis

The "unknown" Sotiris Patatzis

... A text that I have written and published for many years.. And I am bringing it back to the public today, honoring a rare Greek writer.. And most importantly: for example to our youth.. To reduce the explosions, justified many times,...

The monopoly of power

The monopoly of power

April 21, 1967.. The monopoly of power and reason.. Then they imprisoned the fighters.. Today they murder thought,, Fortunately, every year, on these significant days, there are a few Greeks left who forget, for a while, the suffering of other peoples and remember the...

Which United Europe?

Which United Europe?

This elusive, much-sung childhood dream of ours, this unattainable vision of a united, happy Europe that is becoming increasingly unattainable. These romantic evenings that began and ended with political and literary discussions about abolished borders,...

A rare Master

 A rare Master

Ioannis Kakridis, "Barbayannis", as all his students called him, was "A Rare Teacher..." One of the greatest, university, classicists of our country. And we were lucky, our whole generation that due to "social of mind", no...

The trade of war

  The trade of war

The latest, daily, nightmarish threats of a third world war force us to remember the same old ones. The difference is one. Then we had among the states of the former West and East, while now we have among the Shareholders...

What does UN mean?

What does UN mean?

Today we should ask ourselves again what the U.N. finally means. The United Nations Organization.. There is a "standard" answer: To solve the problems of all Nations so that we don't have a second world war again, 1939-1945. .That cost humanity 29...

Barba Giannis... Makrigiannis

Barba Giannis... Makrigiannis

Two hundred years of the Greek Revolution and 200 years of the Greek Makrygiannis (1797-1864) So let's remember him today, with excerpts from his own writings. Closing some "gaps" that may exist in this year's official events... Especially...

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos

A tribute to Aggelos Sikelianos. We will try, those of us who are still alive, to remember our young years and the echo of that great poetic era. . And I, personally, to remember and transfer here in fragments, little of everything that I experienced a...

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