Vassilis Papavassiliou was a teacher

« The ridicule is a phase of the history of the world. This is not the first time the world has to be ridiculous to be ridiculous, regardless of the blood value that entails the regime of the world, « Vasilis Papavassiliou will say on the podcast of elculture.com, » Wounded Spring « and Giorgos Vidoudlaris.

« However, it doesn’t happen for the first time. For about thirty years, about the first of the Berlin Wall we can see the great image of the world through this perspective. In the times we live in, it would be very helpful to reduce times in times, such as the end of the Athenian democracy, such as the Middle Ages and religious wars, as even the experiment of the Bolshevik revolution … all of this is essentially ridiculously paid. « 

In the same podcast of elculture.com we will hear Vassilis Papavassiliou say: « When the German They made the tram, they had said that things are in two ways: in the right way and in the Greek way. We remain loyal to the Greek way! I like to say, and on the occasion of the 200 years since the Revolution, that the first 200 years are difficult. So now we are in the tail of two hundred years. One thing we can only do: patience! « 

« Goodbye »

Vassilis Papavassiliou, writer, performer, director and enormous form of theater, passed away on June 6, 2025. Also the author, dramatist and translator Manos Lambrakis writes in the farewell of the farewell to the farewell to the farewell to the farewell: is displayed. Papavassiliou, however, insisted throughout his life in the contrary: in the opaque, in the incomprehensible, in the meteor. At the time of speech, not in the immediacy of information. His silence was not a departure, but a position.

»His retirement from noise was a form of act. Today, this way of being, non -spectacular, non -blackmailing emotional, disappears. And with him, a world is lost that still hoped that theater may not have fun, but break down. Not to transmit, but to reveal the absence.

»Goodbye, then

Not as a farewell, but as an open condition of pending.

Not as an end, but as a suspension of the final.

As a voice residue that was not supplemented, as a meaning that refused to close.

Not memory, but cracking in the flow of oblivion.

No light, but the delay in the decision to look for it.

No narrative contains him.

Only the space that deprives him and testifies to him at the same time.

A shadow without origin, a footprint that insists, not because it was, but because it was not exhausted. « 

Vassilis Papavassiliou was born in Thessaloniki in 1949. His latest work includes Eleni Yannis Ritsos, Relax… Mynotis, Sihir Euro, Drachma Drachma… You will also say a song, Iphigenia in Taurus, Ragavis, the Cyclops of Euripides as well as two Operats of Theophrastus Sakellaridis.

In total, he has directed thirty performances in the same number of years (Sophocles, Goldoni, Marivo, Horvat, Bond, Shakespeare Pirandello, Moliere, Anagnostaki, Staikou, Maniotis, etc.). He has translated theatrical and lower case texts (Goldoni, Bond, Moliier, Bart, Sad, etc.).

He was honored by the Municipality of Athens, the Municipality of Chalandri, the Association of Greek Theatrical and Musical Critics and the Sicily Theater Festival of Sicily. He taught, not systematically, in drama schools and in the Department of Theater of the School of Fine Arts of the University of Thessaloniki.

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Vassilis Papavassiliou through his own words – « is to do the talent of the bastard »

• ‘The theaterit is an invention of man, and indeed, of the Athenian democratic man of the 6th century, who is confronted with himself through a third party, which is the scene. Where are the people of the scene, the actors, the hypocrites we used to say. Because man needs this relationship, this mediation. According to Plato, who was afraid of art, but deeply loved her and would like to be an artist himself – so he said the phrase « exile poets from the state ». He also spoke about the mediation I said by saying, « And the soul, you know it, in my soul, » (that is, you have to look at another soul). So the place of meeting with each other. This is the theater. « 
• ‘As it was made and as Greece evolved It was a double joke. For the 200 – since 1821 – we are talking, which we have celebrated and recently. I finally conclude that Greece is a country that perhaps carries in its DNA the mark of Odysseus, that is, Kapfertzis. It is the country in this case that it has it. « 
• « The theater was a life -long goal of my adolescence. The meeting with Kun with the Art Theater, the Drama School, then professionally at the Art Theater and after the journey, wandering with the stage, with the blessed Lefteris Vogiatzis and the other kids there … after myself with the time, after a sniper, then. But always steadily wandering. « 
• « I look like Marivo … He had a bastard talent. I can’t distinguish one of all my qualities … I remind me of the timely Pierre Carle de Sablein de Marivo, who wrote plays, wrote and shells and trial works, and they were in everything. And that was his success. To deal with everything successfully. It is a kind of truth in the fields, in the fields of knowledge and expression. It is to do the talent of the bastard. « 

• ‘If politics tell the truth, It will self -deny. So it’s politics a scene. And in the theatrical scene the truth is of great importance. And because it has so big, it must often be able to take the form of lie. Not to mention that this form is the founding condition of what we call art. What is art? The artificial. As for the discovery of democracy, democracy for me is the system of multiplicity of scenes. Of course, there are odors. You say « Karagiozis Boris Johnson ». You say « but what is Boris Johnson or Trump ». And I say, especially in the case of Johnson, is the best way to eliminate humiliation is his institutionalization? That is, I want to say, the flirtation of the reality of the world, which is trying to take shape, in various ways, whether it is the politician, the religious, or the aesthetic, is there to tell you constantly « finally the right is with Heraclitus ». Who is what he says? « The eternal is a child who plays. » The great British poet, Shakespeare, what did you tell you about the king? Can there be a king without the jerk, without the crazy, who we say?
• ‘Role of theater It is to be as best as possible to respond to the great challenge of the season … We are talking about a suspension of life today. We have to be patient. And today is postponed to a relative tomorrow. « 
• ‘As Greeks – We have an Aeschylus, a Euripides, a Sophocles, I think we won’t get so long … My optimism is based on the safety net of the names, we have them below us. We do footwork – which we call reformist, with the unconscious confidence that in the end it will save us something. And this is the security net of the ancient names, which has happened so far. «