Roberto Alvim
{{short description|Brazilian theatre director|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Expand Portuguese|Roberto Alvim|date=January 2020|topic=bio}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Roberto Alvim
| image = Roberto_Alvim_(2020)_(cropped).jpg
| office = Special Secretary of Culture
| term_start = 7 November 2019
| term_end = 17 January 2020
| president = Jair Bolsonaro
| 1blankname = Minister
| 1namedata = Marcelo Álvaro Antônio
| predecessor = Henrique Pires
| successor = Regina Duarte
| birth_name = Roberto Rego Pinheiro
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1973}}
}}
Roberto Alvim is a Brazilian theatre director. He was the founder and director of the Club Noir theatre in São Paulo from 2006 to 2019.{{cite news |last1=Angeleti |first1=Gabriella |title=Bolsonaro hires far-right theatre director to lead federal arts oganisation |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/bolsonaro-hires-far-right-theatre-director-to-lead-federal-arts-oganisation |accessdate=June 21, 2019 |work=The Art Newspaper |date=June 20, 2019}} Since June 18, 2019, he has served as head director of Ceacen, Center of Performing Arts, in the National Foundation of the Arts ({{ill|Funarte|pt}}).{{cite news | first1=Jan | last1=Niklas | first2=Gustavo | last2=Maia | title=Roberto Alvim será o diretor do Centro de Artes Cênicas da Funarte | url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/roberto-alvim-sera-diretor-do-centro-de-artes-cenicas-da-funarte-23750355 | accessdate=June 21, 2019 | work=O Globo | date=June 19, 2019 }} On November 7, 2019{{cite web | url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/bolsonaro-nomeia-dramaturgo-roberto-alvim-para-secretaria-especial-de-cultura-24068248 | title=Roberto Alvim é nomeado secretário de Cultura por Bolsonaro | first=Jussara | last=Soares | date=2019-11-07 | website=O Globo | language=pt-BR | trans-title=Roberto Alvim nominated secretary of Culture by Bolsonaro | access-date=2019-11-22 }} {{subscription required}} he was nominated Special Secretary for Culture under the auspices of the Ministry of Tourism,{{cite web | url=http://www.turismo.gov.br/%C3%BAltimas-not%C3%ADcias/13141-nota-%C3%A0-imprensa-integra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-turismo-e-cultura.html | title=NOTA À IMPRENSA - Integração Turismo e Cultura - Ministério do Turismo | language=pt-br | trans-title=NOTE TO THE PRESS - Tourism and Culture Integration - Ministry of Tourism | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191114013327/http://www.turismo.gov.br/%C3%BAltimas-not%C3%ADcias/13141-nota-%C3%A0-imprensa-integra%C3%A7%C3%A3o-turismo-e-cultura.html | archive-date=2019-11-14 | url-status=live | access-date=2019-11-22 }} only to be fired on January 17, 2020, after plagiarizing a speech by German Nazi politician Joseph Goebbels in a government-sanctioned video.{{ cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jan/17/brazil-culture-minister-goebbels-roberto-alvim-nazi | title=Brazil culture secretary fired after echoing words of Nazi Goebbels | first=Sam | last=Cowie | date=2020-01-17 | website=The Guardian | access-date=2020-01-17 }}{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/01/17/americas/brazil-culture-minister-goebbels-intl-scli/index.html|title=Brazil's culture secretary fired after appearing to quote Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels in a video|author1=Vasco Cotovio |author2=Jack Guy|website=CNN|access-date=2020-01-18}}
Controversy
=Fernanda Montenegro incident=
In September 2019, there was push-back against his verbal attack against the actress Fernanda Montenegro. Roberto Alvim called her "dirty" and "liar" in a Facebook post.{{cite web | url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/ofensa-de-diretor-da-funarte-fernanda-montenegro-indigna-classe-artistica-23967687 | first1=Alessandro | last1=Giannini | first2=Helena | last2=Aragão | first3=Luiza | last3=Barros | title=Ofensa de diretor da Funarte a Fernanda Montenegro indigna classe artística | language=pt-br | trans-title=Funarte director's offense to Fernanda Montenegro outrages artistic class | publisher=O Globo | date=23 September 2019 }} {{subscription required}}
=Goebbels' speech=
On 16 January 2020, while holding the office of Special Culture Secretary from the Ministry of Tourism, Alvim published a video on the Secretary's official Twitter account in which he paraphrases excerpts from a speech by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Germany's Reichsminister of Propaganda.{{cite web | url=https://twitter.com/CulturaGovBr/status/1217941233412321286 | title=Secretaria Especial da Cultura on Twitter | language=pt-br | date=16 January 2020 | website=Twitter | url-status=dead | access-date=17 January 2020 | archive-date=17 January 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200117141836/https://twitter.com/CulturaGovBr/status/1217941233412321286? }}{{ cite web | url=https://tvuol.uol.com.br/video/em-video-alvim-copia-goebbels-e-provoca-onda-de-repudio-nas-redes-sociais-0402CD1B306ED0B96326 | title=Em vídeo, Alvim copia Goebbels e provoca onda de repúdio nas redes sociais | language=pt-br | trans-title=In video, Alvim copies Goebbels and causes wave of disapproval on social media | date=2020-01-17 | website=UOL }} The fact that excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin were used as the soundtrack for his video was taken by some commentators as an allusion to Nazism. The video soon after caused public uproar, and was deleted the following day.{{cite web | url=https://oglobo.globo.com/cultura/roberto-alvim-copia-discurso-do-nazista-joseph-goebbels-causa-indignacao-24195523 | title=Roberto Alvim copia discurso do nazista Joseph Goebbels e causa indignação | language=pt-br | trans-title=Roberto Alvim copies speech by nazi Joseph Goebbels and causes uproar | publisher=O Globo | first1=Bruno | last1=Góes | first2=Helena |last2=Aragão | first3=Jussara | last3=Soares | date=16 January 2020 }} {{subscription required}}{{ cite web | url=https://edition.cnn.com/2020/01/17/americas/brazil-culture-minister-goebbels-intl-scli/index.html | title=Brazil's culture secretary fired after appearing to quote Nazi leader Joseph Goebbels in a video | first1=Vasco | last1=Cotovio | first2=Jack | last2=Guy | date=2020-01-17 | access-date=2020-01-17 | website=CNN }} In response, Alvim posted a Facebook update{{ cite web | url=https://www.facebook.com/roberto.alvim.9/posts/3985335308159399 | website=Facebook | date=17 January 2020 | title=UM BREVE ESCLARECIMENTO SOBRE MEU DISCURSO | language=pt-br | trans-title=A BRIEF CLARIFICATION OF MY SPEECH | first=Roberto | last=Alvim }} in which he states he "hasn't cited anyone" and that the whole incident was a mere "rhetorical coincidence".{{ cite web | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51149224 | title=Brazil's culture minister sparks outrage by echoing Goebbels | website=BBC | date=17 January 2020 }}{{ cite web | url=https://revistaforum.com.br/politica/bolsonaro/roberto-alvim-diz-que-houve-apenas-coincidencia-com-discurso-de-nazista-a-frase-em-si-e-perfeita/ | title=Roberto Alvim diz que houve "apenas coincidência" com discurso de nazista: "A frase em si é perfeita" | language=pt-br | trans-title=Roberto Alvim says there was “only a coincidence” with nazi speech: “The sentence itself is perfect” | first=Plinio | last=Teodoro | date=17 January 2020 }}
{{Blockquote|text=The German art of the next decade will be heroic, it will be steely-romantic, it will be factual and completely free of sentimentality, it will be national will great pathos and binding, or it will be nothing.|author=Joseph Goebbels{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51149224|title=Brazil's culture minister fired after echoing Goebbels|publisher=BBC|date=17 January 2020|accessdate=17 January 2020}}}}
{{Blockquote|text=The Brazilian art of the next decade will be heroic and will be national, will be endowed with great capacity for emotional involvement... deeply linked to the urgent aspirations of our people, or else it will be nothing.|author=Roberto Alvim}}
Following the public's reaction, on 17 January 2020, Alvim was fired. Addressing the controversy, president Jair Bolsonaro stated: "I repeat our rejection of totalitarian and genocidal ideologies, as well as any allusion to it". Regina Duarte was subsequently invited to be Special Secretary of Culture,{{cite web | url=https://g1.globo.com/politica/blog/cristiana-lobo/post/2020/01/20/regina-duarte-aceita-convite-para-secretaria-de-cultura-de-bolsonaro-dizem-interlocutores.ghtml | title=Regina Duarte aceita convite para secretaria de Cultura de Bolsonaro, dizem interlocutores | publisher=G1 | language=pt-br | first=Cristiana | last=Lôbo | date=January 20, 2020 | accessdate=January 27, 2020 }} succeeding Alvim, but she did not immediately accept the job.{{ cite web | url=https://www.nexojornal.com.br/expresso/2020/01/25/A-semana-de-Regina-Duarte-como-quase-secret%C3%A1ria-da-Cultura | title=A semana de Regina Duarte como quase secretária da Cultura | language=pt-br | trans-title=The week of Regina Duarte as almost secretary of Culture | first=Camilo | last=Rocha | date=January 25, 2020 | access-date=January 27, 2020 | website={{ill|Nexo Jornal|pt|Nexo Jornal}} }}
Personal life
Alvim became a born-again Christian during a struggle with cancer.{{cite web | last1=Jeantet | first1=Diane | last2=Savarese | first2=Mauricio | title=Brazil fires top culture official over Nazi-linked comments | url=https://apnews.com/3a93ecfbdf37b992b4f70d2aa03d788c | date=January 17, 2020 | work=Associated Press | accessdate=February 19, 2020}}
References
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Category:Brazilian theatre directors
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