Jérôme Savary

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Jérôme Savary (born June 27, 1942 in Buenos Aires , † March 4, 2013 in Levallois-Perret ) was a French director , theater and opera director , actor and author.

Life

Jérôme Jean Savary was born the son of a writer, his mother was a daughter of the New York politician Frank W. Higgins . In 1947 his mother moved to the Ardèche , where he grew up with his two brothers and attended the Cévenol College in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon . In Paris he studied music with Maurice Martenot and later at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts décoratifs .

At 19 he went to New York, where he lived as a jazz musician (trumpet) and met Lenny Bruce , Jack Kerouac , Allen Ginsberg , Count Basie and Thelonious Monk .

After doing his military service in Argentina, he returned to Paris. He made friends with Fernando Arrabal or Copi , for whom he worked as a comic strip artist, wrote photo novels and was a chauffeur, among others. a. Charlie Parker's widow .

After first directing work at theaters in Argentina and France, Savary founded the Compagnie Jérôme Savary in Paris in 1965 , from which Le Grand Magic Circus and finally Le Grand Magic Circus et ses animaux Tristes developed. With his theater troupe, consisting mainly of amateur actors, in whose performances he often participated as a master of the ceremony, Savary also became internationally known.

From 1982 to 1986 Savary headed the Center Dramatique National du Languedoc-Roussillon , then until 1988 the Carrefour Européen du Théâtre du 8 e à Lyon . From 1988 to 2000 he was director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot and then until 2007 director of the Paris Opéra-Comique .

In 1987 his production of Cabaret won the " Moliere ". The range of his directorial work was very wide and included drama, opera, operetta and musical; from Molière's citizen as a nobleman to Verdi's Rigoletto , Offenbach's La Périchole and Lehár's Merry Widow to Monnot's musical Irma la Douce . As a result, Savary constantly staged plays, operettas, musicals, and operas in Germany, Austria (e.g. at the Bregenz Festival ) and France and was a guest at the opera houses of San Francisco, Washington, Shanghai, Tokyo, Rome and Madrid. Savary often brought out up to eight productions a year, more than 300 in total. In 1990 he also directed the revue Holiday on Ice in the Olympiahalle in Munich .

Most recently, Savary found a new home for himself and his theater and music company La Boîte à Rêves in a former Franciscan abbey in Béziers in southwestern France , and from there toured as a freelance director and producer.

In the co-productions of the Lower Austria State Theater with the Baden stage, Savary staged three works by Ferdinand Raimund in the summer arena in Baden near Vienna from 2010 to 2012 : The Alpine King and the Misanthrope in 2010 , The Spender in 2011 and The Farmer as Millionaire in 2012 .

Awards

Creation (selection)

author

  • Habana blues . Novel. Éditions Grasset, Paris 2000
    Love and Death in Havana . Translated from the French by Brigitte Lindecke. Ullstein, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-548-60717-7 (List-Taschenbuch 60717).

actor

Director

as well as numerous works, often adaptations of his stage versions, as a film and television director.

literature

  • Jérôme Savary: Album du Grand Magic Circus . Pierre Belfond, París 1974.
  • Jérôme Savary: Just an ordinary magician . Translated into German by Widulind Clerc-Erle. Herbig, Munich / Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-7766-1423-4 .
  • Jerôme Savary: Dictionnaire amoureux du Spectacle . Éditions Plon, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-259-19898-8 .

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Commons : Jérôme Savary  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Savary, Jerome
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director, actor and writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH 4th March 2013
Place of death Levallois-Perret