Matija Barl (17 February 1940 – 3 August 2018) was a Slovenian
actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...
, producer and
translator
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. In 1962 he founded and organized the first, oldest and most important Slovenian
music festival
A music festival is a community event with performances of singing and instrument playing that is often presented with a theme such as musical genre (e.g., rock, blues, folk, jazz, classical music), nationality, locality of musicians, or h ...
called
Slovenska popevka.
Biography
Barl was born in
Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
and lived around where he loved to play. When he was 11 years he went to the audition for the movie ''
Kekec
Kekec is a fictional children's literature character created by Slovenian author Josip Vandot in 1918. He was first introduced in the serial "Kekec on the Hard Path" () in ''Zvonček'' magazine (volume 19, issue 1/2). He is a young shepherd boy ...
'' where he was chosen out of more than a thousand kids. He got the role of main character
Kekec
Kekec is a fictional children's literature character created by Slovenian author Josip Vandot in 1918. He was first introduced in the serial "Kekec on the Hard Path" () in ''Zvonček'' magazine (volume 19, issue 1/2). He is a young shepherd boy ...
, a strong and fearless child
superhero
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, for which he is best known today. Everyone identified him with this role so strongly that all the kids in real life wanted to fight with him. So he had to take classes for
martial arts
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such as
wrestling
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and
judo
is an unarmed gendai budō, modern Japanese martial art, Olympic sport (since 1964), and the most prominent form of jacket wrestling competed internationally.『日本大百科全書』電子版【柔道】(CD-ROM version of Encyclopedia Nipponi ...
.
MOJA GENERACIJA z Mojco Mavec - gost Matija Barl - prvi Kekec (slovene)
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Later he attended the Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television The Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television ( sl, Akademija za gledališče, radio, film in televizijo or AGRFT) is an academy of the University of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, Slovenia. It is the only college and graduate school in Slovenia with ...
in Ljubljana
Ljubljana (also known by other historical names) is the capital and largest city of Slovenia. It is the country's cultural, educational, economic, political and administrative center.
During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the ar ...
where he studied dramaturgy
Dramaturgy is the study of dramatic composition and the Representation (arts), representation of the main elements of drama on the stage.
The term first appears in the eponymous work ''Hamburg Dramaturgy'' (1767–69) by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ...
. In 1962 he moved to Germany
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where he worked as independent producer, translator and occasional actor. He lived in Marezige, Slovenia.
Work
Barl is best known for playing role of the Kekec
Kekec is a fictional children's literature character created by Slovenian author Josip Vandot in 1918. He was first introduced in the serial "Kekec on the Hard Path" () in ''Zvonček'' magazine (volume 19, issue 1/2). He is a young shepherd boy ...
character. He also wrote lyrics for songs of important Slovenian music artists, work as producer, performing in documentary. His works are:
* ''Kekec
Kekec is a fictional children's literature character created by Slovenian author Josip Vandot in 1918. He was first introduced in the serial "Kekec on the Hard Path" () in ''Zvonček'' magazine (volume 19, issue 1/2). He is a young shepherd boy ...
'' (1951) - actor
* '' Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte'' (TV movie, 1978) - actor
* ''Pozabljeni zaklad'' (2006) - actor
* ''Madame Pompadour'' (TV movie, 1974) - unit manager
* '' Schwarz und weiß wie Tage und Nächte'' (TV movie, 1978) - production leader
* ''Zgodba gospoda P.F.'' (documentary, 2002) - composer
* ' (TV movie, 1982) - producer
* ''Der verliebte Teufel'' (TV movie, 1971) - assistant director
* ''Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus'' (TV movie, 1971) - location manager
References
External links
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1940 births
2018 deaths
Actors from Ljubljana
Slovenian male film actors
Slovenian composers
Male composers
Slovenian translators
University of Ljubljana alumni
20th-century Slovenian male actors
20th-century translators
Male child actors
Slovenian male musicians