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Aghavni Zabel Binemeciyan (Çilingiryan)

Aghavni Zabel Binemeciyan (Çilingiryan)

One of the first two Armenian women to establish her own theatre company in the Ottoman Empire

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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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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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)

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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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Translation into English: Emre Aslay, Chicago İllinois, USA
Editing: Lynn Maichle, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

©2012 Meral Akkent
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