Catherine Sauvage

Catherine Sauvage (1974)

Catherine Sauvage , born Janine Saunier (born May 29, 1929 in Nancy , † March 20, 1998 in Bry-sur-Marne ( Département Val-de-Marne )), was a French chansonniere and actress .

Life

Janine Saunier, who was enthusiastic about the theater at an early age, came to Paris in 1947 , where she took the stage name Sauvage after a former friend . She took acting lessons from Jean-Louis Barrault and began singing chansons in cabarets such as the Rose Rouge , L'Écluse , Quod Libet , Tabou , L'Arlequin and Trois Maillets . In La Huchette she learned in 1949 Leo Ferré know and was fascinated by his appearance. When she engaged Jacques Canetti in his Caberet Les Trois Baudets four years later , she sang Ferrés chansons such as Monsieur William , Les Amoureux du Havre , Paris canaille , Le Piano du pauvre , L'Ile Saint-Louis , L'Homme and Le Guinche . With this lecture she also celebrated successes in the Olympics and received the Grand Prix du Disque in 1954 .

Sauvage said of her early days in Paris in the late 1940s to early 1950s:

“It was a wonderful atmosphere because it was after the war and you were thirsty, be it among the artists or in the audience. Thirst for poetry, thirst for new things. The people were very open. All artists lived here together. The novelists met the painters, the actors, the singers. That was a time when you weren't primarily material. Fee? You just made fun of it, you sang for pleasure, because there really was an audience that really enjoyed it. "

- Catherine Sauvage in conversation with Stephan Göritz

Sauvage was particularly interested in the interpretation of sophisticated texts by writers. In addition to songs by Gilles Vigneault , Jean-Roger Caussimon , Félix Leclerc , Georges Dor , Serge Gainsbourg and Jean-Claude Darnal, she also had texts by Jacques Prévert , Charles Baudelaire , Bertolt Brecht , Colette , Alfred Jarry , Pierre Mac Orlan , Henri Michaux and Louis Aragon in their program. The latter said of her performance of his poems: "And suddenly with her voice, as if through a gift, everything takes on its full meaning." Georges Brassens judged her performance: "Catherine Sauvage does not sing, she bites."

After winning a second Grand Prix du Disque in 1961, Sauvage took a back seat during the pop music wave that flooded France in the early 1960s, working mainly as a stage actress before making a comeback at Bobino in 1968 . In 1992 she made another record in honor of Jacques Prévert, in July 1994 she had her last appearance in La Rochelle before she died of cancer four years later.

Discography (selection)

• 1961: Chansons de Louis Aragon
• 1961: Chansons de coeur ... chansons de tête
• 1964: Chansons d'amour et de tendresse, chansons des amours déchirantes
• 1966: Chansons françaises du Canada
• 1968: Le Bonheur. Catherine Sauvage à Bobino 1968
• 1969: Le Miroir aux alouettes
• 1969: Chansons libertines
• 1970: Larguez les amarres
• 1971: Avec le temps
• 1992: Colette: Dialogues de bêtes

Filmography (selection)

• 1956: Paris canaille
• 1966: Deux heures à tuer
• 1983: La Fiancée qui venait du froid
• 1988: Le Miroir aux alouettes

Theater (selection)

• 1954: The good person of Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht , directed by Roger Planchon , Festival de Lyon, Théâtre de la Comédie Lyon
• 1958: The Good Man of Sezuan by Bertolt Brecht, directed by Roger Planchon, Théâtre de la Cité Villeurbanne
• 1959: L'Échange by Paul Claudel , directed by Hubert Gignoux , Center dramatique de l'Est
• 1962: Frank the Fifth by Friedrich Dürrenmatt , directed by Claude Régy and André Barsacq , Théâtre de l'Atelier
• 1963: Divines Paroles based on Ramón María del Valle-Inclán , directed by Roger Blin , Théâtre de l'Odéon
• 1963: Le Roi de l'univers by Gabriel Arout , tour
• 1977: The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams , directed by Andreas Voutsinas , Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord

Web links

• Catherine Sauvage in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Biography in La Hall de la Chansons . (French)
• Biography on France Musique . (French)
• Biography at Universal Music . (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Data from Catherine Sauvage in the Bibliothèque nationale de France . There is also a lot of different data on the Internet. The maiden name is also given in part as Jeanine Marcelle Saunier .
2. ↑ ^{a b} biography ( memento of the original from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on France Musique .  
3. ^ Stephan Göritz: Scandal of luck . Broadcast manuscript, Deutschlandfunk, December 8, 2001.
4. ↑ "Et tout à coup avec sa voix, comme un cadeau, chaque mot prend sens complet" Quotation from: Biography ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 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. on France Musique . 
5. ↑ "Catherine Sauvage, elle ne chante pas, elle mord". Quotation from: Biography ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2012 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. on France Musique . 
6. ↑ Biography at Universal Music .