Gaston Baty

Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston Baty (born May 26, 1885 in Pélussin , † October 13, 1952 ) was a French director, playwright and theater director.

Baty completed an artistic training at theaters in Munich and Paris and was very impressed by the painter and set designer Fritz Erler . He began his theater career in 1919 as an assistant to Firmin Gémier in a series of performances at the Cirque d'hiver . He had his first great success in 1921 with a performance of Paul Claudel's L'Annonce faite à Marie . In 1922 he was one of the founders of the Compagnons de la Chimère and took part in their theater workshops in the Baraque de la Chimère in Saint-Germain-des-Prés .

In 1926 he teamed up with Charles Dullin , Louis Jouvet and Georges Pitoëff to form Le Cartel des Quartres , which had a significant influence on the Parisian theater scene in the following years. From 1930 he directed the Théâtre Montparnasse , with which he found international recognition. Here he performed his adaptations of Dostoyevsky's Guilt and Atonement (1933), Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1936) and Cervantes' Don Quixote ( Dulcinee , 1938), Shakespeare's Hamlet (1929), Racines Phèdre (1940) and Bérénice (1946), Jean -Jacques Bernards Martine , Strindbergs Totentanz , works by Goethe , Shaw , O'Neill and others.

During the Second World War and in the years up to his death, Baty devoted himself exclusively to puppet theater. Several of his theater adaptations ( Dulcinea , Madame Bouvary , Schuld und Atonement ) were filmed after his death.

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SURNAME	Baty, Gaston
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baty, Jean-Baptiste-Marie-Gaston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French director, playwright and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH	May 26, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pélussin
DATE OF DEATH	October 13, 1952
Place of death	Pélussin