Rene de Obaldia
René de Obaldia ( October 22, 1918 in Hong Kong – January 27, 2022 in Paris ) was a French writer who worked primarily as a playwright , but also as an author of prose and poetry . He made his debut in 1949 with the volume of poetry Midi ('Mittag'), for which he received the Prix Louis Parrot in the same year.
Life
De Obaldia was the great-grandson of José Domingo de Obaldía , second President of the Republic of Panama , and the son of a Panamanian diplomat and a French woman from Picardy . He grew up in Amiens and Paris, where he attended the Lycée Condorcet . In 1940 he was called up for military service and became a prisoner of war . Until 1944 he was in the Stalag VIII c camp in Sagan , where he was first employed in a briquette factory and then as a forest worker on the Oder. In 1944, seriously ill, he was repatriated to his homeland.
In the post-war period, de Obaldia worked in a small publishing house. His friends during these years included Alain Robbe-Grillet , Roland Barthes and Jean-Michel Atlan . Jean Vilar performed his first major play Génousie at the Théâtre National Populaire in Villeurbanne near Lyon in 1961, followed by the scandal-ridden play Le Satyre de la Villette under André Barsacq in 1963 at the Paris Théâtre de l'Atelier . This play made him one of the most performed French playwrights in the world. It has been translated into a total of 28 languages. He was a songwriter for Louis Mariano and worked as a film actor.
De Obaldia's wife died in 2012. He was a member of the Académie française from 1999 on the fauteuil 22, succeeding Julien Green . From 2012, following the death of Félicien Marceau , he was the dean of the Académie.
René de Obaldia died in Paris in January 2022 at the age of 103. Le Figaro , shortly after his death, referred to him as a kindred spirit of Raymond Queneau and Jacques Audiberti . The author of the obituary left the last word to the deceased, who named the following Alexandrian as the most beautiful verse in French: "Le geai gélatineux geignait dans le jasmin".
awards
- Croix de Guerre 1939-1945
- Officer of the Ordre national du Mérite
- Commander of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Commander of the Panamanian Ordén de Vasco Núñez de Balboa
- 1985: Grand Prix du Théâtre of the Académie Française for lifetime achievement
- 1962: Prix Italia for Le Damne
- 1992: Lifetime Achievement Award from the French PEN Club
- 1993: Prix Novembre for Exobiography
- 1993: Molière d'honneur and Molière de l'auteur for Monsieur Klebs et Rozalie
- 1996: Prix de la Langue Française
- 2000: Honorary Citizen of Waterloo , Belgium
- 2008: Commander of the Monegasque Ordre du Mérite culturel
Publications (selection)
- midi . La Pipe en écume, [o. O.], 1949.
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Les Richesses naturelles . R.Juillard, Paris, 1952.
- German by Eugen Helmlé with drawings by Katrin Raabe: The riches of nature. flash stories . Gollenstein, Blieskastel 1996, ISBN 3-930008-34-3 .
- Tamerlane des cœurs , novel; 1955
- Fugue a Waterloo ; 1956
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Le Graf Zeppelin ou la passion d'Émile ; 1956
- German by Eugen Helmlé: Graf Zeppelin or Émiles Leiden , narrative. Fischer Paperback, Frankfurt am Main 1990, ISBN 3-596-10177-8 .
- Le Centenaire. Novel. Plon, Paris, 1959.
- Les larmes de l'aveugle. Essai radiophonique . Seghers, Paris, 1964.
- Innocentines. Poèmes pour enfants et quelques adultes . Grasset, Paris, 1985, reissued 2002, ISBN 2-246-01554-5 .
- exobiography. memoirs . Grasset, Paris, 1993, ISBN 2-246-34021-7 .
- La jument du capitaine. Pensées, texts et répliques. With a foreword by Jean Orizet, Le Cherche-Midi, Paris, 2004.
- Fantasmes des demoiselles, femmes faites ou défaites cherchant l'âme soeur. Grasset, Paris, 2006, ISBN 2-246-70781-1 .
- Le secret . Illustrated: Julia Chausson. Rue du monde, Paris, 2010, ISBN 978-2-35504-106-8 .
Theater works (selection)
- genosie ; 1960. German EA: Hessian State Theater Wiesbaden January 1963.
- 7 Impromptus à loisir , seven plays; 1961
- Le Satyre et la Villette ; 1963
- Du vent dans les branches du Sassafras (German: wind in the branches of Sassafras ); 1966
- L'Air du large (German Seeluft 1971 by Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt , 1971); 1966
- Monsieur Klebs et Rozalie ; 1975
- Endives et miséricorde ; 1986
- Les Innocentines ; 1993
literature
- Gérard-Denis Farcy (ed.): EncyclObaldia. Petite encyclopédie portative du théâtre de René de Obaldia . JM Place, Paris, 1981.
- Susanne Becker: The poetic theater of France under the sign of surrealism: René de Obaldia, Romain Weingarten and Georges Schehadé . Narr, Tübingen, 2019, ISBN 9783823382898 .
web links
- Literature by and about René de Obaldia in the German National Library catalogue
- Short biography and list of works from the Académie française (French)
itemizations
- ↑ https://www.24heures.ch/lecrivain-rene-de-obaldia-est-mort-a-103-ans-556007886112
- ↑ Eugen Helmlé: René de Obaldia. Munzinger Online/KLfG - Critical encyclopedia of contemporary foreign-language literature .
- ↑ The Gentle Anarchist in the FAZ of October 21, 2013, page 32
- ↑ René de Obaldia: Le plus beau vers de la langue française (from: Innocentines ), quoted here from Thierry Clermont: Mort de l'écrivain René de Obaldia, cent ans de plénitude , Le Figaro, 27 January 2022.
- ↑ René de Obaldia, N°698. Académie française, accessed 28 January 2022 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Obaldia, René de |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and playwright |
| BIRTH DATE | October 22, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hong Kong |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 27, 2022 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Paris |