Francesca De Martin

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Francesca De Martin (born April 30, 1961 in Vittorio Veneto , Italy ; † December 23, 2009 in Bremen ) was a German-Italian cabaret artist, playwright, theater director and actress, who mainly worked in Germany.

Life

At the age of 19, Francesca De Martin came to Germany to play street theater . In Hamburg she was a co-founder of a tent theater called Fliegende Bauten ; later she moved to Bremen, where she lived with the Chilean actor and colleague Alvaro Solar.

Her Italian roots remained visible in her work. De Martin staged plays by Dario Fo in Bremen and worked not only with the Italian honorary consulate on Sielwall , but also with German-Italian companies throughout northern Germany. In her own pieces, too, the Italian mentality and culture were always an issue. She staged the solo pieces for her husband herself; The main venue was the Bremen Shakespeare Company . De Martin was considered spirited and quick-witted on stage. Most recently she was on stage with the program Lappen away next to the cabaret artists Jutta and Gerburg Jahnke and Andrea Bongers .

Francesca De Martin died in 2009 at the age of 48 after a serious illness. A funeral service for her took place on January 1, 2010 at the Riensberg cemetery in Bremen.

Awards

De Martin's work has received numerous cabaret awards. Among other things, she received the star of the week in the Munich evening newspaper for the piece Ibericus, written for Solar together with Ferruccio Cainero , the audience award at the 9th touring theater festival in Radebeul and the Grand Prix of the Zvaigzne Monolog Festival 2006 in Riga .

Works (staging)

  • "The cleaning lady" (Francesca De Martin)
  • "Beatrice" (Alvaro Solar)
  • "Kriminal Bella" (Alvaro Solar)
  • "Mistero Buffo" by Dario Fo
  • "Nobody is looking" (Gerburg Jahnke)
  • "MONEY" (Gerburg Jahnke)
  • "Glück (s) los" (Alvaro Solar)
  • "Deployment of the Itacians" (Alvaro Solar)
  • "Rags away" (Dieter Woll)
  • Ibericus , solo piece for Alvaro Solar, 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So z. B. the online portal Der Westen on May 14, 2007, accessed on November 4, 2010
  2. ↑ According to the Alvaro Solar homepage ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , last accessed April 25, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.alvarosolar.de
personal data
SURNAME De Martin, Francesca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Italian cabaret artist, playwright, theater director and actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Vittorio Veneto , Italy
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2009
Place of death Bremen