Aydin Talibzadeh

Honored Artist, Professor

Talibzade Aydin Aga Yunus oglu (born October 5, 1958, Baku) is the head of the Department of Theater Studies at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts, professor, PhD in Art Studies, and honored art worker. He was born in 1958 in the city of Baku.

From 1976 to 1981, he studied full-time in the Department of Theater Studies at the Azerbaijan State Institute of Arts named after M.A. Aliyev and graduated with a Lenin scholarship. Since 1983, he has been working at the Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts.

IIn 1989, he defended his PhD dissertation in Moscow on the topic “Some Features of Theater Poetics of the Near and Middle Eastern Countries in the Middle Ages” and was awarded the degree of Candidate of Art Studies.

During his 30 years of work at the university, more than 400 of his scientific-theoretical, critical, and journalistic articles and essays have been published in national and international media, with some of these articles also featured on various websites and cultural portals.

In 1990, a methodological booklet titled “Tragedy: On Defining the Genre” was published.

In 2000, he was awarded the Aydın Məmmədov Prize by the Azerbaijan Writers’ Union for critical and literary studies for his article “Kəpənək və ya təfsiri-şərhi-hali Nəsimi” (“Butterfly or the Interpretation-Commentary-Biography of Nəsimi”), published in issue No. 4 of the journal Azərbaycan.

In 2004, his artistic and journalistic monograph titled “Master and Mirror: The Aesthetics of the Soul, the Plane Tree, and the Phone Screen” was published (Baku, “Chinar-Chap”, 288 pages).

In 2005, he was invited as a member of the Critics’ Council to the International Theater Festivals of Multilingual Peoples held in Tatarstan, and in 2009 to the festival held in Bashkortostan, where he represented Azerbaijan.. In 2009, he took part in the International Cairo Experimental Theater Festival in Egypt, and in 2012, he was part of the Azerbaijani delegation at the Fujairah International Monodrama Festival in the UAE. In 2006, the scientific research work titled “Theater and Theatricality in Islamic Culture” (Baku, “Sabah”, 312 pages) was published in Russian and presented to the theater community of the republic, gaining distribution beyond the country’s borders.

In 2006, he translated from Russian into Azerbaijani the work of the prominent mythologist and philosopher Y.E. Golosovker, “The Logic of Myth” (Baku, “Kitab Aləmi”, 316 pages). In 2008, he published a textbook for the course “History of Eastern Theater” (Baku, “Qanun”, 236 pages), which he taught. In 2012, curricula and methodological guidelines were published for the courses “Theater Criticism,” “History of Eastern Theater,” and “Theoretical Issues of Eastern Theater.”

In 2008, the article titled “The Kəpənək Model” was published in issue No. 5 of the journal Azərbaycan. A novel titled “102” has been published.

In 2009, his monograph titled “The Mehdi Enigma or Conceptual Hamletism in Art” was published (Baku, “Elm və Təhsil”, 384 pages). This monograph, which finds its essence at the intersection of theater analysis methodologies, artistic journalism, and the novel genre, is regarded as one of the successes of Azerbaijani theater studies.

He wrote the scripts for the documentary films “Azerbaijani Carpet” (2008) and “Ramadan Wave” (2012).

In 2012, he translated from Russian into Azerbaijani the monograph by R. Farhadov and F. Babayeva titled “Rafiq Babayev: Theme and Improvisation,” which was published that same year.

He was noted for his successful presentations at the Baku International Theater Conferences in 2010, 2012, and 2014.

In 2013, he was awarded the “Tərəqqi” (Progress) Medal of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

In 2014, he participated in the founding meeting of the International Federation for Theater Research held in the United Kingdom.

In 2014, the novel titled “Abuhab” was published

In 2015, two extensive collections of articles titled “Theatrical Frescoes” and “A Thousand Masks, One Self” were published.

In 2015, he was awarded the honorary title of “Honored Art Worker of the Republic of Azerbaijan.”