Annie Fratellini

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Annie Fratellini (born November 14, 1932 in Algiers , † July 1, 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) was a French circus artist, musician and film actress. She was France's first female clown and founded the country's first circus school.

Live and act

Annie Violette Fratellini was born on November 14, 1932 in Algiers , then France . She came from one of the most famous circus families in France. Her grandfather Paul Fratellini (1877–1940), originally from Italy , formed the clown trio Fratellini brothers with his brothers François (1879–1951) and Albert (1886–1961) , which had toured numerous European countries before the First World War and had rekindled the interest of the Parisian population and intellectuals in the circus in Paris in the 1920s. Annie Fratellini's father Victor (1901–1979) was a well-known circus clown and trapeze artist.

Annie Fratellini began her career in 1948 as an acrobat at the Medrano Circus . She was anxious to escape the circus milieu, however, and from the early 1950s embarked on a career as a singer, musician (she played the soprano saxophone , vibraphone , accordion , violin and piano ) and film actress. 1951 Philippe Brun engaged her in his jazz orchestra; In 1955 she recorded her first record. In 1953 she married Brun; the marriage was divorced in 1959. In 1956 she performed at the Olympia in Paris. A year later she played for the first time in a film production; more were added in the 1960s. From 1960 to 1966 Fratellini was married to the film director Pierre Granier-Deferre ; their daughter Valérie Granier-Deferre comes from the marriage. In 1968 she met the actor Pierre Étaix , who was enthusiastic about the circus and saw his calling as a clown. In 1969 Étaix and Fratellini married. With him she turned back to the circus. The couple performed a clown act, with Étaix as the white clown and Fratellini in the role of Stupid August , which she was to play from then on and in which she became famous. She also played as a clown duo with her daughter Valérie.

In 1974, Fratellini and Étaix founded the École nationale du Cirque Annie Fratellini , a circus school that was initially based in Vanves and later in Paris. From 1977 at the latest, the school's qualification was recognized by the state. The establishment of the École nationale du Cirque was a reaction to the serious crisis in the circus industry since the triumph of television . She contributed to the renewal of the genre in the 1980s by reintroducing an artistic dimension into the performances and establishing multidisciplinary teaching, as well as by opening up training, which until then had mainly been reserved for members of circus families, to young people of all origins. Annie Fratellini later stated:

“Je pense que si j'ai créé l'École du cirque, c'est parce que je m'appelais Fratellini. Sur les quarante-cinq personnes que compte la famille, il devait un jour se lever quelqu'un qui dise: Moi aussi, je vais transmettre. Mon père m'emmenait presque chaque jeudi à Médrano. Il répétait: Quel dommage que tu ne sois pas un garçon, tu pourrais être un clown. »

“I think I started the circus school because my name was Fratellini. Of the 45 members of the family, one finally had to get up and say: I also want to pass on something. My father took me to Medrano almost every Thursday. He always said: What a shame that you're not a boy, then you could become a clown. "

The successor to the École nationale du Cirque Annie Fratellini was the Académie Fratellini in Saint-Denis in 2003 . In the small town of Nexon in the Limousin , Étaix and Fratellini also founded a program of introductory courses in circus art for children and young people as well as the festival Les Arts à la rencontre du cirque (“Art meets circus”).

In 1989 Annie Fratellini published her autobiography Destin de clown ("Clown Fate"). She died on July 1, 1997 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris at the age of 64 after a long period of cancer. She had performed in Paris two months before her death. She is buried in the Montmartre cemetery in Paris .

Honors

In several municipalities in France, streets, squares and public facilities are named after Annie Fratellini. For example, streets in Limoges , Saint-Denis , Saint-Herblain and Le Coteau are named after her, and in Nexon there is a square. Schools or pre-schools in Angers , Clichy , Villeneuve-le-Roi and Vernouillet (Yvelines) bear their names.

Film rolls

Fonts

literature

  • Berthe Judet: Photobiography Annie Fratellini . Atelier des Bruges, Montrouge 1980, ISBN 2-85395-005-0 (French, reprinted 1993 under ISBN 2-90491-601-4 ).
  • Dominique Duthuit: Annie Fratellini, la dame du cirque . with illustrations by Célia Portet. Éditions À dos d'âne, 2016, ISBN 978-2-919372-57-7 (French, children's and young people's book).

Web links

Commons : Annie Fratellini  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annie Fratellini. In: britannica.com . November 10, 2019, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Entry on Annie Violette Fratellini in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on May 23, 2020.
  3. ↑ a b Fratellini Family. In: britannica.com . March 28, 2003, accessed May 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e Annie Fratellini. In: notrecinema.com. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (French).
  5. ↑ a b c d Annie Fratellini a rejoint les étoiles . In: Le Monde . July 3, 1997, p.  27 (French, lemonde.fr ).
  6. ↑ a b c d e Emmanuelle Frois: Annie Fratellini quitte la piste . In: Le Figaro . July 2, 1997, p. 28 (French).
  7. ↑ a b Annie Fratellini in the Internet Movie Database (English)
  8. ^ Mariage d'Annie Fratellini et de Philippe Brun. In: blackfr. April 17, 1953, accessed on May 25, 2020 (French, press photo of the wedding of Annie Fratellini and Philippe Brun on April 17, 1953).
  9. ↑ a b c Marc Laumonier: Annie Fratellini quitte la piste pour les étoiles . In: Liberation . July 2, 1997, p. 32 (French, liberation.fr ).
  10. ↑ a b Information on the École nationale du cirque Annie Fratellini from the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on May 24, 2020.
  11. ↑ Information on the Académie Fratellini at the Bibliothèque nationale de France , accessed on May 24, 2020.
  12. ↑ Un peu d'histoire (s). In: lesirque.com. Le Sirque - Pôle National Cirque de Nexon en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French).
  13. ↑ See for example Google Maps and OpenStreetMap , accessed on May 23, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Fratellini, Annie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fratellini, Annie Violette (full name); Fratellini, Anny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French circus artist, musician and film actress
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Algiers
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 1997
Place of death Neuilly-sur-Seine