"The festival was created by Joaquín Leguina with a view to the entry of Spain into the European Economic Community and then it was an eminently European festival. I know the history by heart.

A spirit ... I don't know what greater privilege than to bring every year Robert Lepage or Peter Brook?

The criterion has been that of what is possible, a factor that has evolved in many ways, because it not only depends on money. Before there were fewer scenic spaces and, therefore, fewer possibilities, but also more money. ".

The Argentine Ariel Goldenberg, one of the great animators of the Spanish theater scene in the last two decades of the 20th century and the first two decades of the new century, explained in

El Cultural

how

the great intellectual project of his life

, the Festival de Fall.

Today, Goldenberg has died at the age of 70 in Nimes (France).

The history of Goldenberg crossed with that of Spain in the 70s, when he arrived

in Madrid with

a French theater company whose tour had reached the Spanish Theater and stayed.

Soon he began to work with the Caballo de Bastos Cultural Association, which managed the Cadarso hall in the Argüelles neighborhood of the capital, promoter of the first Madrid International Theater Festival, still very modest.

Goldenberg, well connected with European companies, joined this project and promoted it. Soon, the big international names like Pina Bausch began to arrive in Spain. The arrival of

Peter Brook

, who presented

L'osL'os

at the María Guerrero Theater

and, later,

Mahabharata

, symbolized the consolidation of that festival.

Its success led to the

absorption

by the Autonomous Administration.

Alicia Moreno

took over the management of the Festival and Goldenberg continued her career in France, directing some of the most important venues in the country.

In 2000, when Moreno became Minister of Culture of the Community, Goldenberg returned to Madrid and took over the direction of the Autumn Festival.

For the next 15 years, it went through periods of splendor and also crises, budget cuts and moves to the spring.

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