Éléonore Hirt

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Éléonore Hirt (real name Leonora Virginia Hirt ; born December 19, 1919 in Basel , Switzerland ; † January 27, 2017 in Longjumeau , Essonne ) was a Swiss - French actress .

Life

Leonora Virginia Hirt came in 1919 as the daughter of the Solothurn concertmaster Fritz Hirt and his Irish wife Leonie Hirt, nee. Kammerer in Basel to the world. After attending school in Basel, she moved to Paris in 1934 or 1935 , where she took acting lessons and made her stage debut in García Lorca's blood wedding in 1938 . She spent the Second World War in Switzerland, where she worked at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , the city theaters of Lausanne and Geneva and at Radio Lausanne , among others . In 1940 she made her film debut in the Swiss film Fräulein Huser and in 1941 she played the role of Jeanne in the film An Oasis in the Storm .

From 1947 she worked again in France. At the theater that year she starred in Corneilles Cinna under Charles Dullin's direction . In 1948 she gave the world premiere of Albert Camus 'play The State of Siege a Woman from the City, later major stage roles, such as Hecuba alongside Françoise Brion in Michael Cacoyannis ' production of the Trojans of Euripides in Avignon in 1965 . In 1981 she starred in Roger Blins production of Thomas Bernhard's drama The President , the first performance of one of Bernhard's plays in France.

She had her first major film success in 1962 at the side of Brigitte Bardot as her film mother in the private life of Louis Malle . In 1965 she was Romy Schneider's film mother in What's New, Pussy? . In 1970 she played a mother role again: as the eldest daughter of a patriarch ( Jean Gabin ), she worries about Marc Porel, the son of a film , in The Merciless . On television she played alongside Maria Mauban and Georges Descrières the role of Elizabeth I in Stellio Lenzi's Maria Stuart (1959) and the supporting role of Béatrice in the series The Birds in the Park of Meiji Jingu ' (1974). She is also known to German audiences from the German series Anna from 1987 . There she played the French choreographer Valentine d'Arbanville. A year later, she embodied this character in the film of the same name.

The last time she was on stage was in 2006.

Eléonore Hirt was married to actor Michel Piccoli in the 1950s . The couple have a daughter. Hirt died on January 27, 2017 at the age of 97 in Longjumeau near Paris.

Filmography (selection)

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Entry on Leonora Virginia Hirt in Fichier des personnes décédées , accessed on May 18, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b c Andrea Weibel: Shepherd, Eléonore. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  3. ↑ a b c d Brigitte Salino: La comédienne Eléonore Hirt est morte. In: lemonde.fr . January 30, 2017, accessed May 18, 2020 (French).
  4. ↑ "An Oasis in the Storm" . In: Swiss film - film suisse . tape 7 , no. 107 , March 1942, p. 9 , doi : 10.5169 / seals-734843 ( digital copy at E-Periodica ).
personal data
SURNAME Shepherd, Éléonore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shepherd, Leonora Virgina (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss-French actress
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2017
Place of death Longjumeau , France