Aghavni Zabel Binemeciyan (Çilingiryan)
Date of Birth: 1865
Place of Birth: Istanbul
Date of Death: 1915
Place of Death: Istanbul
Burial Site: (No date available)
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Field of Activity
Theatre
Aghavni-Zabel Binemeciyan's maiden name was Çilingiryan. Before establishing her own theatre company she worked at several different companies including Güllu Agop, Serovpe Benliyan and Mardios Minakyan. While she was working with Minakyan she met Rupen Binemeciyan and married him. Binemeciyan founded his own theatre company but died the same year.
Aghavni-Zabel Binemeciyan kept the theatre running with Kınar Sıvacıyan and Sirapyon Hekimyan under the name: the New Ottoman Theatre (Yeni Osmanlı Tiyatrosu). At the same theatre, Muhsin Ertuğrul and Behzat Butak were in charge of the stage set.
The New Ottoman Theare remained open until Aghavni-Zabel Binemeciyan's death in 1915.
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Education
Contributions to Society
Family and Friends
- Mother(Information not available)
- Father(Information not available)
- Marriage: Rupen Binemeciyan (1857-1912, actor)
- Daughter:Eliza Binemeciyan (actor)
- Friends: Sırapyon Hekimyan (actor) Kınar SıvacıyanKınar Sıvacıyan (actor)
Commemorative Projects
Further Reading
Kevork Pamukçıyan, Biyografileriyle Ermeniler, Aras Yayıncılık, İstanbul, 2003.
Boğos Çalgıcıoğlu, 1820-1946 Osmanlı-Türk Temaşa Sanatında Ermeniler, Getronagan Lisesi'nden Yetişenler Derneği yayını, İstanbul, tarihsiz.
"Agavni Zabel Binemeciyan", http://www.kenthaber.com/marmara/istanbul/Kimdir/iz-birakan/agavni-zabel-binemeciyan (14.4.2012)
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Quoted Sources:
- Boğos Çalgıcıoğlu, 1820-1946 Osmanlı-Türk temaşa sanatında Ermeniler, Getronagan Lisesi'nden Yetişenler Derneği yayını, İstanbul, tarihsiz.
- "Agavni Zabel Binemeciyan", http://www.kenthaber.com/marmara/istanbul/Kimdir/iz-birakan/agavni-zabel-binemeciyan (14.4.2012)
Source of Visual Images
Translation into English: Emre Aslay, Chicago İllinois, USA Editing: Lynn Maichle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA ©2012 Meral Akkent