Ingrid Caven

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Ingrid Caven (* 3. August 1938 as Ingrid Schmidt in Saarbrücken , whose real name is today: Ingrid Cooper ) is a German chanson - singer and actress .

Life

Ingrid Caven was born as the daughter of a Saarbrücken cigarette dealer. She grew up in a musical family, her sister was the mezzo-soprano Trudeliese Schmidt (1941-2004). In her youth she mainly sang German songs by " Schumann , Schubert , Brahms , Hugo Wolf , later Kurt Weill ". After studying art history, German and pedagogy, she first worked as a teacher.

In 1967 she was discovered by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in a Munich vaudeville theater performing a piece by Peer Raben in the hall. Caven has appeared in front of the camera in many of his films, even if only in supporting roles, and once she worked as a production manager in Dealers of the Four Seasons . The two were married from 1970 to 1972. Caven has appeared in around 50 feature and television films so far, including with directors Daniel Schmid , Werner Schroeter and Dani Levy . In addition to Fassbinder, she also became an artistic muse for Schmid and appeared in five of Schmid's films, including La Paloma (1974) as the embodiment of a unity of love, dream and death. With this melodrama as the nightclub singer La Paloma she became internationally known.

In 1970 she got together with the female ensemble of antiteaters to Hanna Schygulla and Irm Hermann the German Film Award as Best Actress . Eleven years later she was again awarded the Gold Film Ribbon for her portrait of an old and humiliated showwoman in Walter Bockmayer's and Rolf Bührmann's drama Looping (1980) .

Caven moved to Paris in 1978 and in a second career as a chanson singer, she has since enjoyed stage successes, especially in France, where she was often compared to divas such as Édith Piaf , Marlene Dietrich and Greta Garbo . Her black velvet dress designed by Yves Saint Laurent also caused a sensation during her appearances . Her repertoire consists mainly of compositions by Peer Raben with texts by him, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wolf Wondratschek , Hans Magnus Enzensberger , Jean-Jacques Schuhl and others. In her opinion, the French audience particularly appreciates her way of interpreting chansons “like German songs”. H. in the tradition of romantic song singing in the 19th century.

Caven lives in the Paris quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Prés together with the French writer Jean-Jacques Schuhl , who celebrated successes in France with a novel about her life (Ingrid Caven , Paris 2000; translation by Eichborn 2001) ( Prix ​​Goncourt 2000) . In the early 2000s she experienced a renaissance as a chanteuse .

In 2007 in an interview with Katja Nicodemus for the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Caven criticized Juliane Lorenz and its Rainer Werner Fassbinder Foundation for the systematic exclusion of the closest Fassbinder employees from the history presented by the foundation. Above all, Caven denies a marriage between Juliane Lorenz and Fassbinder, who was only able to legitimize Lorenz as managing director of a foundation before Fassbinder's mother. Lorenz therefore "excluded almost all close Fassbinder employees who know about this web of lies." This would also operate a "very simple-minded genius cult " that would be diametrically opposed to the collaborative interaction of the Fassbinder group. Cinematographer Michael Ballhaus confirmed Caven's statements that the closest Fassbinder friends had been "erased" from the foundation's history, including Peer Raben, Günther Kaufmann and Caven himself.

Ingrid Caven played the leading role in 2010 in the music video "Im Zweifel für den Zweifel" by the Hamburg group Tocotronic , whose concerts since 2005 have been concluded with the playing of the chanson "The Great White Birds" from Caven's album "The Evening Star".

Filmography (selection)

Discography

Albums

  • Au Pigall’s (1978 LP with Barclay, Live in Paris, re-released on CD in 2001 with Barclay)
  • Der Abendstern (1979 LP by RCA, re-released on CD in 1999 by Viellieb Rekords)
  • Live in Hamburg (1980 LP at RCA, concert in Audimax Hamburg, May 9, 1980)
  • Memories of Édith Piaf (1983 LP at RCA, chansons by Édith Piaf with German lyrics)
  • Fun (1986 LP with Schariwari)
  • Chante Piaf 'En Public' (1989 LP on Clever, recorded in 1988, live at the Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet , Paris, re-released on CD in 2001 by Fpr Music.)
  • Chambre 1050 (1996 CD from Arcade, 2000 CD from Tricatel, 13 tracks from Helle Nacht in French)
  • Helle Nacht (1998 CD by Viellieb Rekords, 16 tracks)

Film music

  • Chansons and themes from Fassbinder films (1994 CD from Alhambra, contains three Caven titles from the film Mother Küster's Journey to Heaven , 1975.)
  • Hors Season (CD of the film Mid-Season / Hors Season , released in Japan in 1993 , contains six tracks interpreted by Ingrid Caven.)

Awards (selection)

literature

Documentaries

  • One life, one novel. Ingrid Caven from Saarland. Documentary, Germany, 2001, 29:40 min., Script and director: Hans Emmerling, production: Saarländischer Rundfunk , summary of the ARD .
  • In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter . Documentary, France, 2010, 72 min., Written and directed by Gérard Courant, produced by Les Amis de Cinématon.
  • Petite intrusion dans l'univers incandescent de Werner Schroeter. Documentary, France, 2010, 83 min., Written and directed by Gérard Courant, production: Les Amis de Cinématon, L'Harmattan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Manuel Brug: The woman who married Fassbinder: actress, Sangesdiva. Ingrid Caven turns 70. In: Die Welt . August 2, 2008, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  2. ^ Aryeh Oron, Manfred Krugmann: Trudeliese Schmidt (Contralto, Mezzo-soprano). In: bach-cantatas.com. February 2010, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Dirk Fuhrig: German-French diva. Ingrid Caven is 75 years old. In: Deutschlandfunk broadcast “Corso”. August 2, 2013, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Ingrid Caven: Actress - Biography. In: deutsches-filmhaus.de. March 2, 2016, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Jan Künemund: Daniel Schmid - Le chat qui pense. (PDF, 149 kB) Edition Salzgeber , July 3, 2010, p. 6 , accessed on August 3, 2018 (press booklet for the Berlinale 2010).
  6. ↑ a b c Hans-Joachim Fetzer: Homage to Ingrid Caven. In: Arsenal cinema . February 2014, accessed August 3, 2018 (with movie descriptions).
  7. ↑ a b Katja Nicodemus : Fassbinder: You can't just erase us. In: Die Zeit 22/2017. May 24, 2017. Retrieved August 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Tocotronic - When in doubt, for doubt. (Video, 3:42 minutes) In: MyVideo . Archived from the original on April 8, 2016 ; accessed on August 3, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Jens Balzer: The Tocotronic Chronicles . Blumenbar , Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-05020-7 , page 268, note 293.
  10. ↑ Jürg Altwegg : Review: Fiction: Nobody has ever read it. Everyone will read it: Ingrid Caven becomes the acclaimed French fictional character. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . October 26, 2000, accessed August 3, 2018 .
  11. ^ Filmography de Gérard Courant. In Memoriam Daniel Schmid Werner Schroeter. In: gerardcourant.com. December 12, 2010, accessed August 3, 2018 (French).
  12. ↑ Werner Schroeter par Gérard Courant, volume 1. In: harmattantv.com. 2012, accessed on August 3, 2018 (French). Petite intrusion dans l'univers incandescent. (Excerpt from YouTube; 11:11 minutes) Gérard Courant, accessed on August 3, 2018 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Caven, Ingrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Ingrid (maiden name); Fassbinder, Ingrid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German chanson singer and actress
DATE OF BIRTH August 3, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Saarbrücken