Christian Fechner

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Christian Lucien Max Alfred Fechner (born July 26, 1944 in Agen , France , † November 25, 2008 in Paris ) was a French film producer who made great box-office hits and magician , especially in the 1970s and 1980s .

Live and act

Fechner was the son of an Austrian baron who fled to France as a result of the annexation of Austria in 1938. Christian Fechner, who tried his hand at ventriloquism at a young age , was already very interested in contemporary Anglo-American pop music ( Sonny and Cher , Donovan, etc.) in the mid-1960s and then began making records by local artists. Christian Fechner produced records for the band Les Charlots as early as 1965 , a French reaction to the successful British formations The Beatles and The Monkees , but also by the singer Antoine .

In 1972 Fechner founded his own film production company with Les Films Christian Fechner. His early works are turbulent comedies with the Charlots ( Charlot is Charlie Chaplin's common name in France ), which also included Fechner's younger brother Jean-Guy (* 1947). After the Charlot films (1972/73), Fechner produced several successful comedies with the French star comedians Pierre Richard and above all Louis de Funès , whom he suffered after two heart attacks in 1975 at largely his own risk for the turbulent comedy Breast or Club in front of the camera retrieved. The film proved to be a huge box office hit.

In the course of the 1980s, Fechner also made productions of other genres, including action and crime films such as Die Spezialen . Among the artistically most ambitious Fechner productions are Bruno Nuytten's artist biography Camille Claudel and Leos Carax 's critically acclaimed Paris drama The Lovers of Pont-Neuf . In the late 1980s when he did not have a feature film, Christian Fechner produced four television series. In 1992 Fechner directed the only time and also participated in the script for this film. In 1997 he succeeded in reuniting the two former superstars of French action cinema of the 60s and 70s, Jean-Paul Belmondo and Alain Delon , after a long time in front of the camera. The result, All my fathers , was disappointing and, moreover, flopped at the box office. With the third part of the film trilogy Les Bronzés , Les Bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie , Fechner achieved another big box-office success in early 2006.

He died of cancer at the age of 64.

Fechner and the art of magic

Christian Fechner was an enthusiastic magician from a young age and later also buyer and supervisor of Adolphe Blind's estate . After Fechner's death, a large part of the collection became the property of the magician David Copperfield .

Another part of Christian Fechner's collection was put up for auction on October 4, 2009 at the auction house Hauff & Auvermann in Berlin. The sale reached a total of 103,735.00 euros.

At the 15th World Congress of Magic in Lausanne, FISM 1982, he presented a series of his own creations in a stage performance.

Fechner wrote fundamental publications on the history of magic about his compatriot Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin , which were published in French and English.

Publications

  • The Magic of Robert-Houdin - An Artist's Life, Volume 1, translation by Todd Karr, Editions FCF Boulogne, France, 2002, ISBN 2-907584-05-7
  • The Magic of Robert-Houdin - An Artist's Life, Volume 2, translation by Todd Karr, Editions FCF Boulogne, France, 2002 ISBN 2-907584-06-5
  • La Magie de Robert-Houdin - Le Secrets des Soirées Fantastique, Editions FCF Boulogne, France, 2002 ISBN 2-907584-04-9

Filmography

  • 1972: The great Charlots - four crazy people in the stadium (Les fous du stade)
  • 1972: The great Charlots - holidays like never before (Les Charlots font l'Espagne)
  • 1973: Where the green noodles fly (Le grand bazar)
  • 1973: The four of us are the musketeers (Quatre Charlots mousquetaires)
  • 1973: Help - my sword is stuck (Les quatre Charlots en folie! Deuxième ronde - à nous quatre cardinal!)
  • 1973: I don't know anything and say everything (Je sais rien, mais je dirais tout)
  • 1974: Le mâle du siècle
  • 1974: The long blonde with the red hair (La moutarde me monte en nez)
  • 1974: The idiots of the 3rd company (Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre)
  • 1975: The clumsy sixth sense (La course à l'échalotte)
  • 1975: Beautiful Kisses from the Far East (Bon baisers de Hong-Kong) (also co-script)
  • 1975: Un sac de billes
  • 1976: Calmos
  • 1976: Breast or Leg (L'aile ou la cuisse)
  • 1977: A Crazy Guy (L'animal)
  • 1977: The cross head (La zizanie)
  • 1978: The sleepyhead (Bête mais discipliné)
  • 1979: Louis, the miser (L'avare)
  • 1980: Viens chez moi, j'habite chez une copine
  • 1981: Ma femme s'appelle reviens
  • 1981: Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages (La soupe aux choux)
  • 1982: The battering ram (Le ruffian)
  • 1983: Papy fait de la resistance
  • 1984: Two fish on dry land (Marche à l'ombre)
  • 1984: The specialists (Les spécialistes)
  • 1985: Le mariage du siècle
  • 1985: Moi vouloir toi
  • 1986: Les frères Pétard
  • 1987: Camille Claudel (Camille Claudel)
  • 1988: Mes meilleurs copains
  • 1989: Le retour de Lemmy Caution (TV movie)
  • 1991: The Lovers of Pont-Neuf (Les amants du Pont-Neuf)
  • 1991: La gamine
  • 1992: Justinien Trouvé, ou le bâtard de dieu (co-script, director)
  • 1995: Elisa (Élisa)
  • 1996: The Bayonne Witches Club (Un amour de sorcière)
  • 1997: Demi-Chance
  • 1997: All my fathers (Une chance sur deux)
  • 1998: The woman on the bridge (La fille sur le pont)
  • 1998: A Summer in the Country (Les enfants du Marais)
  • 2000: Un crime au paradis
  • 2000: Don't die too slow (La tour Montparnasse infernale)
  • 2002: Chouchou
  • 2004: L'incruste
  • 2005: L'antidote
  • 2006: Les bronzés 3: Amis pour la vie
  • 2006: L'entente cordiale
  • 2006: La voix (short film)
  • 2007: The Tavern of Terror (L'auberge rouge)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 628.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary in Le Figaro
  2. ↑ Magical World , Volume 1, 2009
  3. ^ Auction catalog no.59, Hauff & Auvermann, 2009
  4. ↑ Magical World, No. 6, 2009, page 324
  5. ↑ FISM-The Book, Aldo Ghiurmino, W. Meister & Co. Editori, 2015, ISBN 9788890607424 , page 172
personal data
SURNAME Fechner, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fechner, Christian Lucien Max Alfred (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 26, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Agen , France
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 2008
Place of death Paris