Dolly Latz

Pedagogue, Translator, Theater Director

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Dorothea Latz, better known as Dolly Latz, was born in Berlin in 1908. Her father is Dr. Benno Latz and her mother, Annita Marx. She studied pedagogy at the University of Frankfurt and later taught at the Montessori School in Rome. She worked with Max Reinhardt until the rise of Nazism which led her to Barcelona. She published articles in La Vanguardia on pedagogy. Under the pseudonym Daniela Landa writes literary criticism for the publication El día gráfico. She also works as a translator and editor in the "Poetry in the Hand" Collection of Editorial Yunque, directed by Juan Ramón Masoliver. From 1939 to 1940 she prepared bilingual editions of poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Friedrich Schiller and Franz Werfel; in this case she signs as Dorotea Patricia Latz. She also collaborates with the activities of the Teatro de Cámara that Antonio de Cabo and Rafael Richart have been directing since 1949. From 1951 he appears as the company's deputy director and is in charge of putting on some plays in a single session at the Teatro Romea. For example, he premiered a text by Arthur Schneider, The Eternal Face ( Das Ewige Antlitz , 1951) and staged Lost People (Bridget Boland, 1951), The Innocents(William Archibald, from a story by Henry James, 1952), Antigone (Jean Anouilh, 1952), The Smile of the Mona Lisa (Aldous Huxley, 1952) and Colombe (Jean Anouilh, 1953).

From 1954 to 1955, Barcelona City Council, led by Antoni Maria Simarro Puig, commissioned a cycle of classical theater as part of a series of summer performances at the Teatre Grec. The idea is to revitalize the Montjuïc space, underused until then. For the realization of three works, although she projects between six and seven, she receives a subsidy of around 100,000 pesetas. That same year she directed four performances with the company she had founded: Ciudad Condal. Between the months of June and August of 1955 Electra (Sophocles), the troyanas (Eurípides), chained Prometheus (Aeschylus) and Antígona are released(Sophocles). On September 24, he organizes a show in the Plaza del Rey in honor of the cultural entity El Trascacho, in which, after a kind of parade, the interlude of Miguel de Cervantes El juez de los divorcios is performed and reads an anonymous author Loa .

Thanks to the success achieved, the following year the festival is repeated and, in this case, texts by Euripides are staged: Medea , Iphigenia in Taurida and Hippolytus . However, according to a brief article in La Vanguardia Española of March 25, 1956, Latz and his company had also planned the production of Oedipus in Colonna (Sophocles), the three chapters of the Orestiad and a version of Goethe's Faust. They also planned to go on a tour. It is worth mentioning that before the start of the second cycle, Latz premieres at the Club Windsor Theater with the company Ciudad Condal the comedy by Claude A. Pouget Los días felices(May 29, 1956). Due to financial problems and the arrival of a new mayor in the town hall, Josep Maria de Porcioles Colomer, in 1957 the festival of classical works ended at the Greek Theater and the "Festivales de España" prevailed. proposed by the Spanish government. The disappearance of the subsidy forced the dissolution of the Ciudad Condal company. He died in Barcelona on October 14, 1959.