Adele Cambria


Adele Cambria was an Italian journalist, writer and actress.

Biography

She was a central figure in Italian culture before, during, and after the 1968 movement alongside Camilla Cederna and Oriana Fallaci, and was close to the progressive left and to the Partito Radicale under Marco Pannella. She was also a longtime supporter of the feminist movement. Cambria collaborated with newspapers and magazines and published several books. She graduated in law from the University of Messina. She became involved with journalism in 1956 after moving to Rome, where she remained until her death.
An author of narrative works intended for the theater, she was a founder of the Teatro La Maddalena in Rome alongside Dacia Maraini. She was also a friend of Pier Paolo Pasolini and acted in several of his films.
With other progressive intellectuals she gave her support and authority as the director of the daily newspaper Lotta Continua to guarantee freedom of expression and to allow the newspaper to publish. In 1972 however, she was put on trial for an article on the assassination of Luigi Calabresi, following which she quit for not sharing the opinion of the paper. In the following years she joined the Italian Socialist Party.

Journalism

Cambria first began her work as a journalist in 1956 writing for the newspaper Il Giorno, when it had just been founded by Gaetano Baldacci. She further collaborated with Il Mondo and Mario Pannunzio, and later returned to write for Il Giorno from 1985 to 1997. Other journalistic collaborations include:

Television

She worked with RAI beginning in 1963, and between 2000 and 2003 reached 39 transmissions for RaiSat on the program E la Tv non creò la donna.
She then acted in Trittico meridionale, three broadcasts on Southern Italy dedicated respectively to Ernesto de Martino, Maria Occhipinti, and Reggio Calabria. In 2003, she signed on to the pilot episode of a television series dedicated to the history of gossip on RaiSat. From 2011, she was conferred a feature on the talk show Le invasioni barbariche on La7.

Literary works

  • Maria Josè
  • Dopo Didone
  • Amore come rivoluzione – La risposta alle lettere dal carcere di Antonio Gramsci
  • In principio era Marx
  • Il Lenin delle donne
  • L'Italia segreta delle donne
  • Nudo di donna con rovine
  • L'amore è cieco
  • Tu volevi un figlio carabiniere
  • Isabella. La triste storia di Isabella di Morra
  • Storia d'amore e schiavitù
  • Nove dimissioni e mezzo
  • Istanbul. Il doppio viaggio,
  • ''In viaggio con la Zia''

Theater

  • Nonostante Gramsci
  • In principio era Marx – La moglie e la fedele governante
  • La regina dei cartoni
Directed:
  • Di madre in madre, by Muzi Epifani and Francesca Pansa, Teatro La Maddalena, Rome, 1978.

Filmography

Recognition