{"id":8248,"date":"2026-01-27T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/agim-qirjaqi\/---21a46029-b4e0-41a6-8b79-c03fc7e0fa18"},"modified":"2026-01-27T09:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T09:00:19","slug":"agim-qirjaqi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2026\/01\/27\/agim-qirjaqi\/","title":{"rendered":"Agim Qirjaqi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Agim Qirjaqi, actor, theater director, <i>merited artist, was born in Tirana<\/i>. He graduated as an actor at the Higher Institute of Arts (1973) and started working at the People&#8217;s Theatre. He completed the post-graduate course for director at the Higher Institute of Arts (1976); in the years 1989-1991 he attended specialization courses for directing in Milan and Rome. He worked as an actor and as a director at the National Theatre. From 1973, teacher of directing at the Academy of Arts, president of the Albanian Actors&#8217; Association (1992\u20131996), director of the National Theater (2002\u20132003). He has performed a series of roles in the theater, such as: Sir Andre Agnecheek in &#8220;12th Night&#8221; (Shakespeare), Vladimir in &#8220;Waiting for Godot&#8221; (S. Beket), Haralambakis in &#8220;Garden with Swallows&#8221; (Babis Tsikliropoulos); as well as in cinematography: the director (&#8220;Lul\u00ebkuqe mbi mure &#8220;), the colonel (&#8220;Colonel Bunker&#8221;), Mu\u00e7o (&#8220;Violin Strings&#8221;). In his acting interpretation, a harsh realistic style stands out, with combinations of a psychological nature, where all the inflections, poetic tones and nuances, even the grotesque and sarcastic ones coexist. As a director, Agim Qirjaqi has aimed at works with political conflicts and social contradictions from Albanian drama (&#8220;Pomegranate flowers&#8221;, &#8220;Lady from the city&#8221;) and from world classical dramaturgy (&#8220;The Bald Soprano&#8221;, &#8220;Fando and Lis&#8221;, &#8220;Richard III&#8221;, &#8220;An Enemy of the People&#8221;). His paintings are more like graphics; you see a few lines, mostly black and white, but very nervous, where you feel the pressure and confusion of the human soul in crisis. He passed away in Tirana, in 2010. <i>(In the photo: Agim Qirjaqi)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2185.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100060438986272&amp;sk=photos_by&amp;locale=hi_IN<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agim Qirjaqi, actor, theater director, merited artist, was born in Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3886,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8248","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\/8248","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=8248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12235,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8248\/revisions\/12235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}