Medowits, Anton

The owner of this pseudonym studied Art and Culture History at the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of Trnava University in Trnava. He débuted with his poetry collection of Motýľov ((Collection of) Butterflies) (LCA, 1999), and he is also a two-time finalist of the most important literary contest Poviedka (1997, 2000) as well as the author of numerous radio plays and short forms for Slovak Radio. He is a many-time winner and finalist (solo and collectively) of various contests in stage improvisation. He has cooperated with the DISK Trnava Theatre as a dramaturg and the co-author (with Dušan Vicen) of theatre plays Geniálne epocha podľa Schulza a Padesátka(The Genial Epoch according to Schulz and Fifty). Into Slovak he translated Guillaume Apollinaire´s play Casanova. ??????

List of plays (selection):

• Rečičky, 2007 (in cooperation with Anton Medowits), première 2007 VŠMU, Bratislava
• Solitaire.sk, 2007 (in cooperation with Anton Medowits), première 2008 Divadlo v Dlouhé, Prague (staged reading)

Translated plays:

• Rečičky – Leeres Geschwaetz - German
• Rečičky – Conversas de Circunstancia – Portuguese
• Solitaire.sk – English
• Solitaire.sk – Slovenian
• Solitaire.sk - Hungarian