François Silvant
François Silvant (born October 15, 1949 in Lausanne , † June 14, 2007 there ) was a Swiss cabaret artist .
Silvant played theater from 1970 , from 1983 he developed his solo programs. His last solo program was "Mes plantes vertes sont magnifiques", with which he was very successful in western Switzerland .
Through the TV series Le petit Silvant illustré , in which he played around 40 different people, Silvant was extremely well-known and popular in western Switzerland. In 2006, in a poll by the Swiss Sunday newspaper Le Matin Dimanche, he was voted the third most popular French-speaking Swiss, behind figure skater Stéphane Lambiel and journalist Jean-Philippe Rapp .
In June 2007, Silvant died of cancer in Lausanne .
literature
- Françoise Dubor: François Silvant . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1685 f. (French)
Web links
- François Silvant's website
- Idees-Suisse
- Obituary in the Bieler Tagblatt ( memento from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Silvant, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss cabaret artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lausanne |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 14, 2007 |
| Place of death | Lausanne |