André Roussin
André Jean Paul Roussin (born January 22, 1911 in Marseille , † November 3, 1987 in Paris ) was a French theater actor and comedy poet. His play Die Schule der Gatten , which was performed with Theo Lingen and Hans Holt , achieved particular fame in German-speaking countries .
Life
Roussin was born in 1911 as the son of an insurance employee in Marseille. After visiting the Mélizan institution, he also worked in insurance from 1931. He then worked as a journalist for Petit Marseillais from 1933 to 1935 . Together with Louis Ducreux , he founded the acting company Le Rideau Gris in 1934 . After the Second World War, he switched from acting to stage poetry and wrote numerous plays, mainly tabloid comedies . Roussin is considered one of the most played dramatists in French post-war theater. Several of his plays were filmed, including Die kleine Hütte . He was also active as a screenwriter and published several books. In 1947 Roussin married Lucienne Deluy, with whom he had a son. He died of cancer in Paris in 1987.
Awards
- 1970 Prix Edmond Rostand
- 1973 elected to the Académie française
- Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Commander of the Ordre national du Mérite
- 1977 Prix Beaumarchais
Works (selection)
- Am-Stram-Gram (1944)
- Une grande fille toute simple ( The comedians are coming ; 1944)
- Jean-Baptiste le mal-aimé (1945)
- Le Tombeau d'Achille (1945)
- La Petite Hutte ( The Little Hut ; 1947)
- Nina ( An Unusual Woman ; 1949)
- Les Oeufs de l'autruche (1950)
- Bobosse (1951)
- Le Mari, la femme et la mort ( The man, the woman and death ; 1954)
- L'Amour fou (1955)
- La Sainte Famille (1956)
- Lorsque l'enfant paraît (1957)
- La Mamma (1957)
- Les Glorieuses ( The School of Wives ; 1960)
- Une femme qui dit la verité ( The School of Spouses ; 1960)
- La Coquine (1962)
- Un amour qui ne finit pas ( The perfect love ; 1963)
- La Voyante (1963)
- La Locomotive (1966)
- On ne sait jamais (1969)
- La Claque (1972)
- La Vie est trop courte (1981)
- Le rideau rouge (1982)
Filmography
- 1957: The Shed (The Little Hut)
- 1958: Bobosse
Web links
- André Roussin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Literature by and about André Roussin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about André Roussin in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- Literature by and about André Roussin in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and list of works of the Académie française (French)
- Obituary in Der Spiegel magazine , issue 46/1987
Individual evidence
- ↑ André Roussin in the Munzinger archive , accessed on July 4, 2012 ( beginning of the article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Roussin, André |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Roussin, André Jean Paul (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French stage actor and comedy poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd November 1987 |
| Place of death | Paris |