Copi

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Copi is the stage name of Raúl Damonte Botana (* 20th November 1939 in Buenos Aires ; † 14. December 1987 in Paris ), one of Argentina coming cartoonist , writer and actor.

Life

As a child, Copi came to Paris with his parents, who had to go into exile in Uruguay and then in France after Juan Perón came to power. At the age of 15 he returned to Argentina with his parents. In 1962 the young man went back to Paris, where he first made a name for himself as a draftsman : from 1965 he regularly published comic strips with his female character “La Femme Assise” in the weekly Le Nouvel Observateur , and a number of works also appeared in the satire -Magazine Hara-Kiri and in the daily newspaper Liberation .

His drawings depict the figures with an economical, thin line. Movement is used very sparingly, the focus is on the absurd and comic dialogues. In Germany, Carlsen Comics published in 1986 and 1987 in the series Carlsen Cartoon Comics by Copi: Die alten Nutten , Mama, why don't I have a banana? , The president's wife and mom get out.

As the grandson of a well-known Argentine playwright, Copi wrote his first play at the age of 16. From the mid-sixties, in Paris, he came into contact with the theater avant-garde there, he also appeared as an actor in some of his own sketches, soon afterwards with his compatriots Jorge Lavelli and Alfredo Arias as well as with Argentina, who was also born in Argentina Jérôme Savary worked together. The first major play by Copi in French, La Journée d'une Rêveuse ( Eng . A Dreamer's Day ), premiered in 1968 at the Théâtre de Lutèce in Paris in a production by Lavelli. Two years later, Eva Perón (dt. Evita Perón ) caused a political scandal, as the performance at the Théâtre de l'Epée de Bois (production Arias) in Vincennes was stormed by a right-wing group of thugs and from then on had to take place under police protection. Eleven more pieces followed in the next few years, some of which were included in the programs of the Festival d'Automne in Paris or the Festival d'Avignon.

In addition to his drawings and plays, Copi also published a large number of novels and short stories.

In all of his works he insists radically on his particularity: as an artist and as a private person. Gays and lesbians, transvestites and transsexuals, “freaky people”, clochards and ordinary people, behind whose facade the secret desires are seething, appear. In a world in which violence and death are self-evident (theatrical) constants, all these characters seek and assert their identity in a permanent and sometimes ritualized game of confusion in which clothes, roles and gender are changed and exchanged.

Copi completed his last work, Une Visite inopportune, in 1987, shortly before his death. At the center of this comedy, which u. a. was performed in Paris, Barcelona and New York, in Germany in Mainz and Berlin, there is an elderly actor who is in hospital and dies of AIDS.

On December 14, 1987, Copi died of AIDS in a Paris hospital.

Works

prose

  • L'Uruguay. Christian Bourgois 1972
  • Le Bal des Folles. Christian Bourgois 1977 (German Die Schlange von New York. Albino Verlag 1983)
  • Une langouste pour deux. Christian Bourgois 1978
  • La cité des rats. Belfond 1979
  • La vie est un tango. Editions libres - Hallier 1979
  • La guerre des pédés. Albin Michel 1982 (German Samba War. Albino Verlag 1985)
  • Virginia Woolf a encore frappé. Editions Persona 1983
  • L'international argentine. Belfond 1988

theatre

  • La Journée d'une Rêveuse. Christian Bourgois 1968 (German The Day of a Dreamer. Stefani Hunzinger Bühnenverlag)
  • Eva Perón. Christian Bourgois 1969 (German Evita Perón. Hartmann and Stauffacher publishers)
  • L'Homosexuel ou la difficulté de s'exprimer. Christian Bourgois 1971
  • Les quatre jumelles. Christian Bourgois 1973
  • Loretta Strong. Christian Bourgois 1974 (German Loretta Strong reaches for the stars (manuscript))
  • La pyramid. Christian Bourgois 1975
  • La Tour de la Defense. Christian Bourgois 1978 (German Das Schlangennest. Theater Verlag Desch)
  • Le Frigo. Editions Persona 1983 (German The Ice Box (Manuscript))
  • La nuit de Madame Lucienne. Union générale d'éditions 1986
  • Les escaliers du Sacré-Cœur. Union générale d'éditions 1986
  • Théâtre. 2 vols., Union générale d'éditions, collection 10/18, 1986
  • Une visite inopportune. Christian Bourgois 1988 (German An Inopportune Visit. Theaterverlag Desch)
  • Cachafaz. Actes Sud 1993
  • L'ombre de Venceslao. Editions Théâtrales 1999

Comic albums

  • Humor secret. Julliard 1965
  • Les poulets n'ont pas de chaise. Denoël 1966
  • Le dernier salon où l'on cause. Square 1973
  • Et moi, pourquoi j'ai pas une banana? Square 1975 (German Mama, why don't I have a banana? Carlsen 1986)
  • Les vieilles putes. Square 1977 (German Die alten Nutten. Carlsen 1986)
  • You côté des violés. Square 1979
  • La femme assise. Square / Albin Michel 1981 (German mom gets out. Carlsen 1987)
  • Kang. Dargaud 1984
  • Sale crise pour les putes. L'Echo des Savanes / Albin Michel 1984 (German The President's wife. Carlsen 1987)
  • Le monde fantastique des gays. Glénat 1986

Award

  • 1987 Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris

literature

  • 1983 Michel Corvin: Le système de l'énonciation théâtrale. Aperçu théorique et application: “La Journée d'une rêveuse” (Copi), Australian Journal of French Studies XX, pp. 288–306
  • 1991 César Aira : Copi , Rosario (B. Viterbo)
  • 1994 Ursula Jung: L'énonciation au théâtre. Une approche pragmatique de l'auto-texte théâtral (inter alia Copi: “La Journée d'une rêveuse”)
  • 1997 July Leal: Una visita inoportuna al bulevar del sida , in: Sida y cultura / Ahmed Hader-bache y Ana Monleón eds. Univ. de Valencia, Dept. De Filologia Francesa i Italiana, pp. 98-104
  • 1997 Gustavo Tambascio: Una herencia inoportuna. El teatro de Copi, a diez años de su muerte , in: Cuadernos hispanoamericanos 563, Mayo 1997, pp. 107-112
  • 2002 Osvaldo Obregón: La diffusion et la réception du théâtre latino-américain en France de 1958 à 1986 , Besançon (Presses Universitaires Franc-Comtoises) (v. A. Pp. 365–372, 427)
  • 2003 Marcos Rosenzvaig: Copi: simulacro de espejos , Málaga (Universidad de Málaga) DL 2003
  • 2006 Isabelle Barbéris: L'épopée verbale de “Loretta Strong” , in: Le Monologue au théâtre (1950–2000) La parole solitaire / textes réunis par Florence Fix et Frédérique Toudoire-Surlapierre, Éd. Univ. de Dijon (Ecritures)
  • 2008 Gabriella Campinelli: Copi e la rappresentazione ironica del mito , in: Annali dell'Istituto Universitario Orientale, Sezione Romanza, Napoli, pp. 227–246
  • 2017 Hernán Costa : Una metáfora inoportuna: el cuerpo degradado en el teatro de Copi , Eudeba (Editorial Universitaria de Buenos Aires)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b cf. the obituary by Mathieu Lindon and Marion Scali. In: Liberation December 15, 1987, pp. 35-36
  2. ↑ cf. Dulce María Doreste: El teatro francés contemporaneo: Copi. In: Actas del II coloquio sobre los estudios de filologia francesa en la universidad española. Almagro 3-5 mayo de 1993, pp. 383-87
  3. ↑ He reports on this in a conversation with Michel Cressole, cf. Copi: Le théâtre exaltant - Entretien avec Michel Cressole. In: Copi: Le Frigo. Paris (Persona) 1983, pp. 53-60
  4. ↑ cf. Valérie Cadet: Copi, l'art de la dérision. In: Magazine littéraire 374 (March 1999), pp. 80-81
  5. ^ Jorge Damonte: Copi. Christian Bourgois, Paris 1990, p. 93.
  6. ↑ cf. the report by Alfredo Arias. In: Jorge Damonte: Copi. Christian Bourgois, Paris 1990, p. 13
personal data
SURNAME Copi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Damonte Botana, Raúl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian comic book artist, playwright and novelist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH December 14, 1987
Place of death Paris