Nobel laureate in literature, died – Dario Fo is dead – Germany radio culture

Jan-Christoph Kitzler, ARD Studio Rome

Dario Fo in June 2014 in Rome. (picture alliance / dpa / Riccardo De Luca)

The Italian author Dario Fo is dead. He died, Italian media reports that at the age of 90 years in a Milan hospital. Fo the price received in 1997 the Nobel.

He withdrew from all artistic categories. Dario Fo was not only the writer, than that of the received in 1997 the Nobel prize in literature, again and again, he was also an actor, a painter, a stage designer.

in 1926, in the North of Italy, had begun on the Lago Maggiore, born the son of a Station-master, that his career as an architect. Together with his three years ago, late wife Franca Rame, he has formed a congenial Couple, which was primarily with their performances at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, also for tangible scandals. In his Nobel prize speech he had said:

“I didn’t go to the theatre to play Hamlet, but to be a Clown, a buffoon.”

Dario Fo dedicated always also political: From the beginning, he criticised Silvio Berlusconi, and the elimination of Critical culture in Italy. Most recently, he has promoted in numerous public appearances, the Five star movement of Beppe Grillo.

In the spring had Dario Fo 90. Birthday celebrated and the city of Verona bequeathed his estate. Now he has died in a Milan hospital.