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ROBERT WALTL (1965) Actor, director, puppeteer. Director of Mini teater Ljubljana and Jewish Cultural Centre in Ljubljana.

He created numerous acting roles in Slovene and Croatian theatres and films starting in 1987. After 1999, he established himself also as a director. Many of his directing creations won prestigious awards at different festivals, his performances were played on tours and in numerous international festivals. He created a large number of acting roles in radio plays. After his rich experience in an institutional theatre, Robert Waltl abandoned the safety of official institutions. In 1998, on base of his own financial means, he started a new Slovene theatre - MINI TEATER. The vast range of his original ideas may well be seen in the openness of his theatre program directed towards the youngest spectators, offering them - unlike the commercial projects in other private theatres - performances of the best quality. The program for children consists of classical and contemporary authors. Robert Waltl however, cultivates also a high quality drama for adults. MINI TEATER has put on stage a number of cult plays of the 20th century as first stage performances ever in the world. He took part in many international festivals all over the world: Israel, USA, Venezuela, Poland, Spain, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Belarus, Russia, Croatia, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Hungary, Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Holland, Macedonia, Denmark, Chorea, China, Bulgaria, Iran, Pakistan, Egypt, United Kingdom, Armenia,.. .

In 2013, Robert Waltl founded the Jewish Cultural Center in Ljubljana. The Jewish Cultural Center (JCC) in Ljubljana serves the social life of the city's Jews and international visitors by presenting innovative, entertaining, and educational topics through theater and puppet performances, concerts, lectures, Jewish holidays, and other social gatherings. In close partnership with Mini Theater, the JCC is the epicenter for critical events and festivals promoting tolerance, inclusion, history, and education from western Slovenia to northeastern Italy.

Robert Waltl, along with Branko Lustig, a two-time OSCAR recipient and Holocaust survivor, founded the House of Tolerance Festival as a Jewish film festival dealing with all kinds of intolerance in our society. The festival is having a Holocaust as a central theme, but also education about the Holocaust and the dangers of anti-Semitism and all kinds of hatred in modern society.

Robert Waltl is a recipient of many awards and recognitions: Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Republic of France, Award of the capital of Ljubljana for his contribution to the city in the field of civic engagement and artistic creation, prestigious Award of the Slovene National Association of Drama Artists, the Župančič Award given by the City of Ljubljana for his contribution to the cultural image of the City, and a number of awards from different festivals in Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, China, Iran, Poland, Belarus, Cuba and Serbia.

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