Borka Pavićević

Borka Pavićević (1947 – 30 June 2019) was a Yugoslavian-Serbian dramaturge, newspaper columnist, and cultural activist. She was also described as a "dramatist, Belgrade liberal and pacifist intellectual".[1] She founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination in 1994, and was a co-founder of the Belgrade Circle.

Borka Pavićević
Personal details
Born	1947 Kotor, Montenegro, Yugoslavia
Died	30 June 2019 (aged 72) Belgrade, Serbia
Political party	Movement of Free Citizens (2017–2019)
Alma mater	University of Arts in Belgrade
Occupation	dramaturge, pacifist, intellectual
Known for	Centre for Cultural Decontamination
Awards	Legion of Honour

Biography

Born in Kotor,[2] Pavićević was a 1971 graduate from Belgrade's Academy of Theatre, Film, Radio and Television. Her theatre career spanned decades. For ten years, Pavicevic was a dramaturge at Atelje 212.[3] She founded the "New Sensibility" Theater in a Belgrade brewery in 1981. From 1984 to 1991 she participated in the artistic movement "KPGT" (Kazaliste Pozoriste Gledalisce Teatar). She was a playwright and the artistic director of the Belgrade Drama Theatre, until she was let go in 1993 due to her political views.[4] She also served as a jurist for the Belgrade International Theatre Festival, working for the organization for 20 years. A co-founder of the Belgrade Circle,[5][6] she was a regular newspaper columnist in "Danas".

Pavićević founded the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, devoted to the creation of catharsis, in 1994;[3] it has organised more than 5,000 events, exhibitions, protests, and lectures. She was one of the signers of the Declaration of The Civil Resistance Movement in 2012 and was the co-author of the book Belgrade, my Belgrade.[3] In 2017, she signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[7] Pavičević received many awards including, the Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theater (2000); the Hiroshima Foundation Prize for Peace and Culture (2004); the Osvajanje slobode (“Winning Freedom”) prize by the Maja Maršićević Tasić Foundation (2005); Routes Award by European Cultural Foundation (2009/2010); and, from the Government of the Republic of France, the Legion of Honour (2001).[8][9][10]

She was married to human rights lawyer Nikola Barović.[9]

Borka Pavićević died on 30 June 2019 in Belgrade, at the age of 72.[11]

References

1. Slpašak, Svetlana (1997). The war started at Maksimir: hate speech in the media: content analyses of Politika and Borba newspapers, 1987–1991. Media Center. p. 53.
2. "Borka Pavićević has passed away". CZKD. 30 June 2019. Retrieved 4 December 2020.
3. "Borka Pavićević". Drama Queen Symposium. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
4. Nikčević, Tamara (19 December 2013). "Kratka istorija kulturnog trovanja". Vreme (in Serbian). Retrieved 27 May 2014.
5. Yale Theatre. Yale School of Drama. 2002. p. 27.
6. "Europe in 2020: the future of the EU". Crossborder Experience. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
7. Derk, Denis (28 March 2017). "Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca" [A Declaration on the Common Language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is About to Appear] (in Serbo-Croatian). Zagreb: Večernji list. pp. 6–7. ISSN 0350-5006. Archived from the original on 23 May 2017. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
8. "014 Hiroshima Prizes to be presented to Senator Roméo Dallaire and Kettly Noël, dancer and choreographer". Hiroshima Foundation. 24 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
9. "Interview with 2nd ECF Princess Margriet Award laureate Borka Pavićević". European Cultural Foundation. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
10. "Borka Pavićević". Digital Diplomacy Program of British Council and Kosovo Foreign Ministry. Archived from the original on 7 November 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
11. "Preminula Borka Pavićević". CZKD.

External links

• Borka Pavicevic at IMDb