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Incontro con Luca Marinelli e Fabian Jung
to Spoleto already from this week for rehearsals of An Affair for an Academy, Luca Marinelli and Fabian Jung meet the public and the press at the Teatro Caio Melisso Spazio Carla Fendi (free admission on ticket showing), to present the show that marked the award-winning actor's directorial debut during the last edition of the Festival and will be the premiere of the next edition.
On stage at Teatro Caio Melisso Spazio Carla Fendi for four performances from Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2, An Affair for an Academy is the theatrical transposition of Franz Kafka's famous 1917 short story, and once again stars a magnetic Fabian Jung. Rot Peter is the name of the monkey to whom Kafka gives voice in 1917 short story: Peter is captured and, while in captivity, realizes that he can imitate humans very well and secure his freedom. After five years, anthropologists find themselves listening to a monkey turned academic speaker. A Report for an Academy deals in grotesque terms with the plight of those who are forced to live an existence that does not belong to them in order to conform to the dictates of society and derive a form of freedom from it.
INFORMATION
Free tickets to attend the meeting are available online or at the Festival Box Office in Spoleto, via Saffi 12 (open daily 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and 3 p.m.-6 p.m.)
He graduated from the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico in 2009 and made his film debut the following year with La solitudine dei numeri primi by Saverio Costanzo.
In 2012, for his role in Tutti i santi giorni, directed by Paolo Virzì, he received his first nomination as Best Leading Actor at the David di Donatello Awards.
In 2014, the film Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot, directed by Gabriele Mainetti, earned him a Ciak d’Oro, a Nastro d’Argento, and the David di Donatello Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2015, for Non essere cattivo by Claudio Caligari, he received his third David di Donatello nomination.
Directed by the Taviani brothers in Una questione privata, he was awarded the Globo d’Oro for Best Actor. His international work includes Trust by Oscar winner Danny Boyle, and in 2022 The Old Guard alongside Charlize Theron.
In 2019, for the film Martin Eden directed by Pietro Marcello, he received the prestigious Coppa Volpi for Best Actor and was nominated for Best Actor at the European Film Awards.
In 2020, during the 70th Berlinale, he served on the International Jury chaired by Jeremy Irons.
In 2023, together with Alessandro Borghi, he received the Nastro d’Argento for Best Actor for Le otto montagne, a film that also won the David di Donatello for Best Picture.
In 2024, he portrayed Benito Mussolini in the series M. Il figlio del secolo, based on the novel by Antonio Scurati and directed by Joe Wright. That same year, he returned to the stage directing Una relazione per un’Accademia by Kafka at the Festival dei Due Mondi.
He stars in the film Paternal Leave, directed by Alissa Jung and presented in the “Generation” section of the Berlinale 2025.
He was born in 1984 and grew up to Leipzig. In 2009 he studied acting at the "Ernst Busch" art academy in Berlin. In 2012 he was invited to a theater festival to St. Petersburg where he discovered his interest in international theater productions. At that time he met Luca Marinelli and the idea of performing Kafka's play An Affair for an Academy was first born. Jung joined to be part of a theater ensemble to Chemnitz, and then worked at theaters such as the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz, Staatstheater Saarbrücken, Schauspielhaus Hamburg, to name a few. In 2018 he taught a theater course for students at the German school in Barranquilla, Colombia. Upon his return he returns to working with Luca Marinelli on Kafka's text, to present it at the 66th edition of Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.
Luca Marinelli
Fabian Jung
Damiano Michieletto
