Georges Lerminier

Georges Lerminier (born April 23, 1915 in Orléans , † April 8, 1978 in Paris ) was a French Romance studies and theater scholar.

life and work

Lerminier attended the Lycée Henri IV and studied in Paris. In 1938 he co-founded the Théâtre de la Petite Ourse and later organized theater performances in the German prison camp. Then he worked as a radio journalist. In 1947 he founded the Lundis dramatiques in the Alliance française , for which he was able to gain important names ( Paul Claudel , Audiberti , Jean Vilar , Jean-Louis Barrault , Albert Camus , Louis Jouvet , Charles Dullin and others). From 1947 to 1962 he was a lecturer in French literature at the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris and at the Center d'art dramatique (rue Blanche), and from 1949 to 1957 professor of French theater history at Sweet Briar College in Virginia . From 1953 he was a theater critic for the daily newspaper Le Parisien libéré (later Le Parisien ). From 1962 until his death he worked as inspector general of the French theater scene (Inspecteur général des spectacles). The Prix Georges-Lerminier du Syndicat de la critique annually honors the best provincial production.

Works

• Jacques Copeau. Le réformateur 1879-1949, Paris 1953 (Metteurs en scène 5)
• (Ed.) Jean Anouilh, La Répétition ou l'Amour puni. Comédie, Paris 1957, 1988
• (Ed.) François Mauriac, Le Mystère Frontenac. Extraits, 1961
• (with René Marill Albérès , Pierre de Boisdeffre , Manuel de Diéguez and Alain Robbe-Grillet ) Dictionnaire de littérature contemporaine, Paris 1963, 1976
• (Ed. With Antoine Adam and Edouard Morot-Sir ) Littérature française, 2 vols., Paris 1967-1968, 1971 (Portuguese Rio de Janeiro 1972; Polish Warsaw 1974-1980)

literature

• Michel Corvin, Dictionnaire du théâtre, Paris 2003, sv
• Béatrice and Michel Wattel, Qui était qui. XXe siècle, Levallois-Perret 2005

Web links

• Literature by and about Georges Lerminier in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)