Ariane Mnouchkine
Ariane Mnouchkine (born March 3, 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt ) is a French theater and film director , theater director and author.
Life
Ariane Mnouchkine comes from a Russian family of emigrants. Her father was the film producer Alexandre Mnouchkine , her mother the Englishwoman June Hannen. At the end of the 1950s she studied for a year as a propaedeutic at the Sorbonne in Paris , where she made her first directing experience with a student theater.
Then she began studying psychology at Oxford University . At the same time, she worked at the Oxford University Drama Society as an assistant director on classic productions. She decided on a career in theater and founded the theater workshop Association Théâtrale des Étudiants de Paris in 1959 .
Mnouchkine then stayed for a long time in East Asia, especially in Japan and Cambodia . In 1964 she founded the alternative theater Théâtre du Soleil with her fellow students .
After several successful productions, the group got its own theater in the Bois de Vincennes ( 12th arrondissement ) in Paris in 1970 . Your stage is a huge factory building, the Cartoucherie de Vincennes. The ensemble lives and works there as a commune. Actors and stagehands receive the same fee. The collective develops ideas that are mainly financed from the income from their world tours. The members of the theater own the theater in equal shares. The theater collective still consists of around thirty-five international professional and amateur actors.
Mnouchkine has repeatedly worked with the author Hélène Cixous . She campaigned against the oppression and exclusion of minorities around the world. In the summer of 1995, she went on a four-week hunger strike to protest ethnic cleansing in Bosnia . In 1997 she housed the sans-paper protesters who wanted to force permanent residence in France in emergency shelters on the theater grounds. In 1998 she received the Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng after he was released from prison. She campaigned for the asylum of the author and director Rayhana in France, who had to flee from the Islamic violence in Algeria in 2010 .
Honors
- 1987: European Theater Prize
- 1995: Kainz Medal
- 2005: Picasso Medal from UNESCO
- 2005: She turned down the Hanseatic Goethe Prize for her life's work
because she did not want a prize from a “person with a Nazi past”. - 2009: International Ibsen Prize
- 2011: Goethe Medal for her artistic and political merits
- 2017: Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main
- 2019: Kyoto Prize for her life's work as a theater producer
Important productions
- 1964/65: The petty bourgeoisie after Maxim Gorky .
- 1965/66: Le Capitaine Fracasse by Philippe Léotard , an adaptation of Théophile Gautier's work .
- 1968: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare .
- 1970/73: 1789 (1970/71) and 1793 (1972/73) on the French Revolution - collective work.
- 1979/80: Mephisto - novel of a career after Klaus Mann .
- 1981/84: Les Shakespeare - cycle with the pieces Richard II. , Heinrich IV. And What you want .
- 1990/93: Les Atrides - Atrid cycle , consisting of Iphigenie in Aulis ( Euripides ) and the Orestie ( Aeschylus ).
- 1995/96: Le Tartuffe by Molière .
- 2003: Le Dernier Caravansérail - collective work.
- 2006: Les Ephémères - collective work (2006).
- 2016: Une Chambre en Inde . Premiere: November 5, 2016, Théâtre du Soleil, Paris.
Filmography
- 1964: Adventure in Rio (L'homme de Rio) (collaboration on the script)
- 1974: 1789
- 1978: Molière
- 1989: The wonderful night (La nuit miraculeuse) (TV)
- 2003: Tambours sur la digue (TV)
- 2006: Le dernier caravansérail
- 2007: Un soleil à Kaboul… ou plutôt deux (documentary)
- 2014: Shipwreck with crazy hope (Les naufragés du fol espoir) (TV)
literature
- Josette Féral (ed.): Ariane Mnouchkine & Das Théâtre du Soleil. Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2003, 268 pages, 25 b / w and 15 color illustrations, ISBN 3-89581-043-6
- Horst Schumacher: Mnouchkine, Ariane . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 495 ff.
publication
- Ariane Mnouchkine, Eugenio Barba a. a .: - A theater of tenderness and beauty. Conversation / Interview, in: Lettre International No. 114, autumn 2016
documentary
- Ariane Mnouchkine with body and soul. The "Théâtre du Soleil" adventure. Documentation, France, 2008, 74 min., Director: Catherine Vilpoux, production: arte France, German first broadcast: November 26, 2009, summary by arte
Web links
- Literature by and about Ariane Mnouchkine in the catalog of the German National Library
- Ariane Mnouchkine in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Théâtre du Soleil
- Book and theater performance ( Memento from March 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- Les Éphémeres
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horst Schumacher: Mnouchkine, Ariane , in Theaterlexikon 2 , p. 496
- ^ Thomas Hahn: Attack against the author. In: welt.de . January 16, 2010, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Kyoto Prize for director Ariane Mnouchkine , nachtkritik.de of June 14, 2019, accessed June 15, 2019
- ↑ lettre.de: The price of experience
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mnouchkine, Ariane |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French theater and film director, theater director and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt |