Bıography Of Afife Jale
Posted on Sal Kas, 20 by Administrator
AFİFE JALE’S BIOGRAPHY
The First Turkish Theater Actress
Birth 1902 Istanbul
Death on July 24, 1941 in Istanbul
BACKGROUND
Theater actress(B. 1902, Kadıköy / Istanbul - D. July 24, 1941, Bakırköy / Istanbul). Afife Jale, the "first Muslim Turkish woman" to appear on the theater stage, She was the grandson of Dr. Sait Pasha and the daughter of a middle class family. While studying at the Istanbul Girls' Industrial School in 1918, she passed the exam to admit students to Darülbedayi (City Theaters). Afife Jale, who started the theater in years when Muslim women were not welcome on the stage, became one of the five girls who were accepted to Darülbedayi as a student. Other friends left the theater on the grounds that they could not go on stage; however, unlike her friends, Afife continued all rehearsals for a year, regularly and insistently. However, her father was also against her being a theater player and he saw Afife's acting as a mildness.
When Eliza Binemeciyan, who was staged in 1920 and played in Hüseyin Suat's play "Yamalar", left the band and went to Paris, Afife Jale took the stage instead of Binemeciyan in the play staged at the Apollon Theater in Kadıköy. The police, who came to the theater for Afife, who played Emel under the pseudonym "Jale", warned the theater managers not to be on the stage. Still, Afife Jale appeared again a week later in the play "Sweet Secret". Thereupon, the police wanted to arrest Afife. Actress Kınar Hanım kidnapped her to the backyard of the theater. One day later, the police raided the theater while the play "Odalık" was being played. This time, Afife was kidnapped from the engine room, then taken to the house of Monsieur Sireç, the owner of the Apollon Theater. Meanwhile, she was caught on the street and taken to the police station. He was battered at the police station where she was taken. As if that weren't enough, her family excluded her. Her father threw her out of the house saying "I don't have a daughter named Afife". Meanwhile, with an order of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the municipality sent a declaration to the Darülbedayi Executive Board on February 27, 1921. In the statement, it was stated that Muslim Turkish women could never take the stage.
Following this declaration, Afife Jale was removed from the paid staff of the theater. But theater was a passion for her, and he couldn't see anything else. Six years later, to writer Refik Ahmet Sevengil, her first night on the stage; Describing it as “the first night I was happy in my life”, Afife Jale started to suffer from severe headaches. Her absence from theater upset her already weak nerves. She started looking for the escape in pills and drugs. Morphine injections given to her by a Syrian pharmacist made her a habit, he was now a addict to the morphine.
Afife Jale went on a tour of Anatolia with the Burhanettin Tepsi Company a few years later; She played in Kadıköy with the new theater group. Later, she gave performances in various cities with Fikret Şadi's National Stage. Turkish women started to appear on the stage only after 1923, with the order of Atatürk. Ladies of Seniye (in Burhanettin Tepsi Group), Şaziye Moral (in New Stage), Münire / Neyire Neyyir, Bedia Muvahhit, Huriye and Hikmet (in Milli Sahne) took the stage by watching Afife Jale.
Severe headaches, deteriorating health and drug abuse caused Afife Jale to leave the theater inevitably. She married the tambour artist Selâhattin Pınar, whom she met at Hafız Burhan concert in Kuşdili Meadow in 1928, and they had happy days. They wrote poems, Selahattin Pınar played, Afife listened. However, these happy days did not last long. Afife Jale could not live without theater and could not break away from drugs. One day, Seâhattin Pınar was shocked when he saw that his wife injected morphine into her arm. He tried very hard to bring Afife back to life. He failed and they divorced in 1935. Selahattin Pınar composed the songs for him called "Where I Love That Cruel Woman" and "Grumpy and Sweet Woman":
Afife Jale spent the last years of her life in Bakırköy Mental and Neurological Diseases Hospital, and her life ended there when she was only 39 years old. On the first night the writer Hüseyin Suat appeared on the stage, he kissed her on the forehead; “It took a bouncer on our stage. You are that sacrifice, ”he said. In the following years, Nezihe Araz wrote the following words from Jale's mouth in her play for Afife Jale: "Remember me not with pity, but by thinking, loving, embracing. If there is a theater, I am also. " Şahin Kaygun shot the movie "Afife Jale" with a script based on this play staged at the Ankara State Theater. The play Afife Jale, written by Nezihe Araz, was staged in Istanbul in the 1987-88 season. In 1997, the "Afife Jale Theater Award" was founded, which is given every year in various branches. The theater in Ortaköy Cultural Center opened by Beşiktaş Municipality in 1998 was named Afife Jale Stage.