Henri Bernstein
Henri Bernstein (born June 20, 1876 in Paris , † November 27, 1953 ibid) was a French playwright and temporarily headed the Théâtre du Gymnase .
Life
His bourgeois drama Le Voleur made him famous in 1906. After the premiere of his drama Après moi in 1911 at the Comédie-Française , he had to contend with anti-Semitic attacks.
Before the Second World War he fought a literary competition with Edouard Bourdet , his direct opponent at the boulevard theater . He won the competition and became even better known within France.
During the war he was in exile in the United States . He wrote Portrait d'un défaitiste , which received a lot of coverage in the American press. In New York he lived in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel . In his work Le Soleil et les Ombres (Robert Laffont, 1976), Jean-Pierre Aumont criticized the luxury in which Bernstein lived and Bernstein's disinterest in war.
Works
- Le Voleur
- Mélo
Film adaptations
- 1913: siblings ( La griffe )
- 1932: The dreaming mouth
- 1932: Mélo as The Dreaming Mouth , directed by Paul Czinner
- 1936: L'Assaut
- 1937: Orage
- 1940: Happiness ( La comedie du bonheur )
- 1952: The dreaming mouth
- 1954: You have to forget me ( Delirio )
- 1986: Mélo , directed by Alain Resnais
literature
- Chantal Meyer Plantureux: Les enfants de Shylock ou l'antisémitisme sur scène, Brussels: Editions complexe 2005. ISBN 978-2804800246
Web links
- Henri Bernstein in the Internet Broadway Database (Engl.)
- Henri Bernstein in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Henri Bernstein at The New York Times (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bernstein, Henri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French dramaturge at the Théâtre de boulevard |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 20, 1876 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 27, 1953 |
| Place of death | Paris |