On the occasion of the theater performance entitled The Country Where I Was Born, the famous Greek writer Dimitris Dimitriadis told the news agency AMNA that Greece’s crushing economic crisis has moved him.
“Greece should enter a new historical period. I do not know how, I have no recipe, but I think we need to think over which things we have failed to deal with, not only collectively but also individually. Even the question of democracy …. We live in a historic failure, our political system is rotten,” he said.
Dimitriadis, author of the play I’m Dying Like a Country, which has been presented in Athens as well, added: “Greeks can’t even look themselves in the eye. We live in a globalized digital period and we need to find a new way of co-existence.”
Dimitriadis was born in Thessaloniki. He studied Drama and Film Studies in Brussels. It was in the Belgian capital, in 1966, that he wrote his first play, The Price of the Resistance in the Black Market, which was staged by Patrice Chereau in 1968 in Paris at the Theatre d’ Aubervilliers. In 1978, he published his first novel, I’m Dying Like a Country, adapted for the stage.
He has since written many works – novels, plays and poetry – most of which have been published by Agra. He has translated works by Genet, Bataille, Gobrowicz, Blanchot, Nerval, Balzac, Koltes, Moliere, Euripides, Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Courteline, T. Williams and others.
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