Caroline Loeb

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Caroline Loeb

Caroline Loeb (born October 5, 1955 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French chanson singer , actress , theater director and author .

Life

Caroline Loeb spent part of her childhood in the USA, where her father Albert Loeb (* 1932) owned a gallery in New York City from 1958 to 1971 . In 1966 he opened a gallery in Paris that still exists today. She is the granddaughter of the gallery owner Pierre Loeb (1897–1964) and the great niece of the photographer Denise Colomb (1902–2004), her brother is the actor Martin Loeb (* 1959).

In the 1970s, she began her acting career in some of Jean Eustache's films , including My Little Lovers (1974), where her brother starred. In addition to other films, she also appeared on the theater stage. With her second single C'est la ouate (English title And So What ), which in 1986 was No. 1 in the singles charts in Italy, No. 3 in Spain, No. 5 in France, No. 10 in Germany and No. 30, she became internationally known. Her numerous directorial work includes a production of the vagina monologues by Eve Ensler at the Théâtre Michel in Paris (2007). Caroline Loeb, who was also a radio presenter for a time, published her first novel Has Been in 2006 .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
C'est la ouate
  FR 5 December 20, 1986 (18 weeks)

Albums

  • 1983 - Piranana
  • 1987 - Loeb CD
  • 2004 - Best of
  • 2009 - Crime parfait

Singles

  • 1983 - Malibu
  • 1986 - C'est la ouate
  • 1987 - A quoi tu penses?
  • 1988 - Amant z'aimant
  • 1988 - Le phone
  • 1988 - Mots croisés
  • 1995 - J'te hais dans la peau

Filmography (selection)

  • 1973: Mama and the Whore (La Maman et la putain)
  • 1974: My little lovers (Mes petites amoureuses)
  • 1978: Flammes
  • 1980: L'Ombre d'un jeu
  • 1982: Jimmy Jazz
  • 1985: La Nuit porte jaratelles
  • 1989: Femme de papier (television production)
  • 1991: The Favor, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish
  • 2005: Venus and Apollon ( Vénus & Apollon , TV series)

literature

  • Bon chic chroniques. Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1993, ISBN 2-02-018898-8 (radio texts )
  • Caroline Loeb, Shirley Goldfarb, Grégory Masurovsky: Shirley. D'après les "Carnets" de Shirley Goldfarb. Éditions espace 34, Montpellier 2002, ISBN 2-907293-86-9 (play)
  • Has been. Flammarion, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-08-069060-4 (novel)

Web links

Commons : Caroline Loeb  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ galerieloeb.com ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 15, 2008. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.galerieloeb.com
  2. ↑ Chart sources: FR
personal data
SURNAME Loeb, Caroline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French singer, actress, theater director, author
DATE OF BIRTH 5th October 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuilly-sur-Seine