{"id":7353,"date":"2023-11-06T09:36:29","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/11\/06\/marika-kallamata\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:08","slug":"marika-kallamata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/11\/06\/marika-kallamata\/","title":{"rendered":"Marika Kallamata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marika Kallamata, actress, &#8220;Artist of Merit&#8221; was born in Fier. In 1950, she graduated from the Artistic High School &#8220;Jordan Misja&#8221; and that same year she started working at the People&#8217;s Theater. Played a number of supporting and episodic roles, reprising original characters. She stood out with the role of the maid in Goldoni&#8217;s comedy &#8220;<i>Mirandolina<\/i>&#8220;, but the role that made her very popular was that of Aspasia in the comedy &#8220;Karnavalet e Kor\u00e7\u00ebs&#8221; (\u201cThe carnavals of Kor\u00e7\u00eb\u201d) by Spiro \u00c7omora, in 1964. With her acting, she ridiculed superstition, ignorance and snobbery of provincial women, thanks to a marking plastic, expressive acting mask, figurative gesture, &#8220;male&#8221; voice mime and many meaningful and complementary details, which helped in the realization of a unique character. Marika Kallamata was an actress of characters, mostly of the comic side and with grotesque colors; knew how to use plastic elements with high effectiveness, used dialectal speech, even the slang of street conversation; it created interesting possibilities, meaningful details, caused a unique mood as a result of adapting to the circumstance where and when it was acted. In the cinematography, she played 14 roles, small and secondary, also these roles-characters, starting first with the film &#8220;F\u00ebmij\u00ebt e saj&#8221; (\u201cHer children\u201d), 1957 and continuing with others such as &#8220;Dollia e dasm\u00ebs time&#8221; (\u201cThe toast of my wedding\u201d) in the role of Xhiko, &#8220;Kur hidheshin themelet&#8221; (\u201cWhen the foundations were laid\u201d) in the role of Hava, &#8220;\u00cbnd\u00ebrr p\u00ebr nj\u00eb karrige&#8221; (\u201cDream for a chair\u201d) in the role of Ishe, &#8220;Nj\u00eb baba tep\u00ebr&#8221; (\u201cOne too many fathers\u201d) in the role of Filomena, etc. Marika Kallamata became very well-known and loved, with the warm, seductive, suggestive way of telling stories, having one of the widest audiences, especially with the role of the grandmother in the fairy-tale show for children on Albanian Television. She passed away in Tirana, in 2019. <i>(In the photo: Marika Kallamata)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text: <\/strong>Josif Papagjoni<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.afp.al\/news\/2017\/06\/flet-artistja-e-merituar-marika-kallamata-jeten-artistike-e-fillova-ne-teater-dhe-aty-e-mbylla-30599<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marika Kallamata, an actress and &#8220;Artist of Merit,&#8221; was born in Fier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7353"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10463,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7353\/revisions\/10463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}