As he in 1997 with the biggest award of the literary world, the Nobel prize was awarded, reminded Dario Fo once again to his outsider status in the literary world: “The fine poets in Italy have been so excited about it that I get the Nobel prize, that the sedative in the Italian pharmacies were almost sold out,” mocked Fo: “Some have even demanded the abdication of the Norwegian king.”
The son of a railroader and a peasant woman from a village on the Lago Maggiore, put on again and again with the Powerful. After studying art and architecture in Milan, he worked as an actor and for broadcasting. In 1959, he founded together with his wife, the theatre company “La compagnia Dario Fo – Franca Rame”.
His international breakthrough was not Fo in 1960 with the Comedy “Gli arcangeli non giocano a flipper” (“archangels don’t play pinball”), among the best known of his approximately 70 pieces “is Paid!”, “Accidental death of an anarchist” and “Only children, kitchen, Church”. In Germany, they were played often, often in the Translation of Peter O. Chotjewitz.
The profession in which he excelled, was a popular Farce with society changing. The author embodied lecherous popes, quirky politicians, and speech huge drunkards. He addressed in his works, even the Mafia, in weapons industry or in environmental sins.
in 1968 called the Fo again, together with his wife in Milan, the theatre collective “La Comune” with which he performed political and socio-critical pieces. Through his political involvement, even on the part of the Communist party, was Fo involved in many processes and Controversies. Several times he was arrested on the stage.
In the Italian television, he had a ban for years and years appearance. In 1977, Pope Paul VI, protested after the broadcast of “Mistero buffo” in the Italian government and threatened the Vatican, not going to watch the “desecration of the religious feelings of the Italians in silence”.
Fo was also critical of the centre-Right government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. In 2006, he appeared as the candidate of the center-left Opposition in the mayoral election in Milan. Preposterous, said the Fo, had not the theatre, but the policy. He was defeated at the code, could, however, be achieved with 23.4% of the vote a success. Later on he joined by the comedian Beppe Grillo founded the Five star movement, was traded by Grillo, at times even as a possible President.
Now the playwright, who was delivered twelve days ago with lung problems in a Milan hospital died, at the age of 90 – three years after his wife Franca Rame. The Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, himself a target of Fos ridicule, paid tribute to the writer: “With Dario Fo, Italy loses one of the great exponents of the theatre, of culture and civil society of our country.”
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