Germain Muller

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Germain Muller, 1980

Germain Muller (born July 11, 1923 in Strasbourg , † October 10, 1994 ibid) was an Alsatian cultural politician and a very popular cabaret artist , poet and playwright . Together with Mario Hirlé (1925–1992) and Raymond Vogel (1915–1988) he founded the Strasbourg theater Le Barabli ( Alsatian , from French le parapluie , German “The umbrella”), which he directed until 1992. Muller is still one of the most famous Alsatian cabaret artists. With his theater he inscribed himself in the hearts of the Alsatians and in Alsatian cultural history.

Life

Muller was the son of the conservationist Louis Muller, his mother Augustine was the daughter of an elementary school teacher and a postal worker. As a teenager he liked to read a lot of literature, the singer Charles Trenet became his idol. At the age of 14 he made his first appearances with songs and skits on Radio Strasbourg . He began an acting training in Bordeaux and finished it at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe . In 1943 Muller was drafted there by the Wehrmacht , but he was able to desert to Switzerland . As a participant in the 1st French Army under the leadership of General De Lattre de Tassigny , he was among the liberators of Strasbourg.

In 1946 he founded the Barabli cabaret stage together with Mario Hirlé (1925–1992) , on which he himself appeared until 1988. Mario Hirlé was also the composer of all melodies (over 350), in Trossingen he had studied music with Hohner with Hugo Herrmann . From 1959 to 1989, Muller served as an alderman for culture in the city council with the then Strasbourg mayors Pierre Pflimlin and Marcel Rudloff . After the daily political business, Muller went to his cabaret in the evening and did political cabaret with chansons and skits. Strasbourg's cultural mayor performed around 80 times a year in his cabaret. Muller was particularly involved in the performing arts , so he was one of the initiators of the establishment of the Opéra National du Rhin , the music and congress hall, the Maillon Theater in the Hautepierre district and the municipal dance school.

Muller's main theme, suffering and life was the all too often distressed middle position of the Alsatians between the French and the Germans. His translations include a. Bert Brecht's “ petty bourgeois wedding ” in Alsatian (“E gfitzti Hochzitt”). Today, Alsatian schools and theaters are named after him in his honor. He thus expanded the French tradition of a politician and at the same time an intellectual, a civil servant and “ homme de lettres ”, which is still unusual in Germany.

Muller was married to Dinah Faust, with whom he had three children.

Quotes

  • “A good Alsatian is the opposite of the contraire ”. G. Muller (handed down by Ronald Hirlé )
  • Muller's definition of the Alsatian:
    "Wos isch a Elsasser?" "A Elsasser isch a Elsasser." "Wos isch a good Elsasser?" "A good Elsasser isch a French." "Whose is a very good Alsatian?" Elsasser isch already a half Schwob (German) ".
  • Muller's mockery of Alsatian good-naturedness:
    "Mr. General de Gaulle , please please, kick our ass a little more!"
  • Roger Siffer on the origin of the cabaret name Barabli :
    “Barabli”: The name of the cabaret alone was satirical and programmatic. During the First World War , the Alsatian and German prisoners of war did not have the same status. The Alsatians had been annexed and were considered “false French who spoke German”. There was a pastor there , I think his name was     Vetele . When he held up his umbrella, the Alsatians would say “s'isch a Barabli”, as they say in Alsace (derived from “parapluie”), while the Germans said “umbrella” and those from Baden said “umbrella”. When the German prisoners of war wanted to pretend to be Alsatians in order to get better food, they would say “s'isch a Schirm”, and you knew they weren't Alsatians. Because of this story, Germain Müller named his cabaret "Barabli".

Works

  • 1964: Enfin ... redde m'r take devun. Tragi-comédie alsacienne en 11 tableaux. Strasbourg-Neudorf: Imprimerie Jenny, 22 Bl.
  • 1973: Hoffet, Frédéric et Muller, Germain, Psychanalyse de l'Alsace. Texts from 1951, augm. d'une preface de l'auteur et d'un avant-propos de Germain Muller. Colmar: Édition Alsatia, 214 pp.
  • 1978: Strasbourg. City of encounters. Karlsruhe: Braun, 131 pp., Numerous. Ill.
  • 1999: Le fou de l'Alsace. Colmar: Bentzinger, Collection le Stammdisch, 95 pages, ISBN 2-906238-86-4 .
  • 1999: Coups de gueule. Poèmes et chansons. Colmar: Do Bentzinger Verlag, 121 pages, ISBN 2-906238-81-3 .
  • D'r Contades Mensch or On the Inconvenience of Being Alsatian - play.

Secondary literature

  • Malou Schneider (Ed.): 42 Johr Barabli: histoire d'un cabaret alsacien. Oberlin Publishing House, Musées de Strasbourg, 1988.
  • Bernard Jenny: Germain: "en Alsace le contraire est toujours vrai." Do Bentzinger, Colmar 1997, 510 p., Illustrated, biography.
  • Dinah Faust, Ronald Hirlé (ed.): Le Barabli: histoire d'un cabaret bilingue 1946-1992. Hirlé, Strasbourg 2007, ISBN 978-2-914729-64-2 , textes de Germain Muller, musique de Mario Hirlé.
  • Ronald Hirlé : Qui étiez-vous, monsieur Germain Muller? Éditions du Signe, Strasbourg, 2014, ISBN 978-2-7468-3202-2 .

Exhibitions

  • “Enfin… redde m'r devun!” Musée Alsacien, Strasbourg , January 30th - June 1st, 2015, together with the Musée Historique and the Musée Tomi Ungerer (March 6th - July 5th, 2015).

media

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Review by Gabriel Braeuner: Qui étiez-vous, monsieur Germain Muller? In: Revue d'Alsace , 2015 (French).
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Julie Barth: Press dossier “Enfin… redde m'r devun!” ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Musées de Strasbourg , 2015, (PDF; 12 p., 880 kB), German.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musees.strasbourg.eu
  3. ↑ a b c Interview with Roger Siffer, the figurehead of Alsatian identity. ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) In: arte .
  4. ↑ Jürg-Peter Lienhard: E gfitzti Hochzitt (after Bertolt Brecht's petty bourgeois wedding). In: jplienhard.ch , (PDF; 1 p., 167 kB), program sheet , German.
  5. ↑ Michael Neubauer: Alsatians should roar more. ( Memento from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) In: Badische Zeitung , Saturday, September 6, 2003, interview with Roger Siffer.
  6. ^ "Germain Muller. Enfin… Redde m'r devun! Enfin ... Parlons-en! » In: Elsässisches Museum , (German), accessed on February 12, 2016.
  7. ↑ Bärbel Nückles: One who taught the Alsatian self-confidence. Strasbourg is dedicated to the cabaret artist Germain Muller. In: Badische Zeitung , February 4, 2015.
  8. ↑ List of titles from «Barabli Hit». ( Memento of December 12, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) In: barablihit.com .
personal data
SURNAME Muller, Germain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French cultural politician, cabaret artist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Strasbourg
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1994
Place of death Strasbourg