Jane Birkin

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Birkin in 1985

Jane Mallory Birkin (born December 14, 1946 in London ) is a British actress and singer . She has lived in Brittany near Saint-Pabu since the late 1960s .

family

Birkin is the daughter of Lieutenant-Commander David Birkin and actress Judy Campbell , her brother is the British director and screenwriter Andrew Birkin .

Birkin was the wife of the composer John Barry , from 1969 to 1980 the life companion of the singer, composer, author and director Serge Gainsbourg and later was in a relationship with the director Jacques Doillon . Her daughters Kate Barry (1967-2013), Charlotte Gainsbourg (* 1971) and Lou Doillon (* 1982) came from these relationships.

life and work

Birkin had her international breakthrough in the role of a photo model in Michelangelo Antonioni's cult film Blow Up , which received the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967 .

She met Serge Gainsbourg while filming Slogan . Together with him, she interpreted the title Je t'aime… moi non plus new, written by Gainsbourg in 1969 , which he originally sung with Brigitte Bardot , but had not published at her request (and that of her then husband Gunter Sachs ). The song was temporarily on the index of some radio stations because some of the program makers and listeners found the text and alleged intercourse noises of the recording to be offensive. The recording probably sold over a million times within a few months and made the couple known internationally.

With her daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg , 2010

Gainsbourg and Birkin then produced music solo and together for twelve years. She worked on his album L'histoire de Melody Nelson (1971) and its surrealist film adaptation. Birkin also played in numerous films.

In 1980 she left her longtime partner. Her new partner, the director Jacques Doillon , helped her to a number of important roles during the 1980s that cemented her credibility as a serious actress.

Serge Gainsbourg dedicated his last album, Amours des feintes , to Jane Birkin in 1990 . After Gainsbourg's death in 1991, she decided to end her musical career. Since 1998 she has been publishing her own music recordings again, some with well-known artists such as the violinist Djamel Benyelles , Manu Chao , Brian Molko , Bryan Ferry and Beth Gibbons .

Birkin was guest of honor at the Viennale 2005. In her honor, some of her films were shown during the festival. B. Je t'aime , La Pirate and Daddy Nostalgia .

In March 2006 her album Fictions was released , on which she again worked with contemporary musicians such as Beth Gibbons , Johnny Marr or Rufus Wainwright . The album also features covers by Tom Waits (Alice) , Neil Young (Harvest Moon) and Kate Bush (Mother Stands For Comfort) .

In 2017 she went on tour with her new album Birkin / Gainsbourg le symphonique . In Germany she was a guest at the Ruhr Festival . It was accompanied by a symphony orchestra of around 80 musicians under the direction of the Japanese composer and pianist Nobuyuki Nakajima .

Filmography (selection)

Jane Birkin in 2009 at the 66th Venice Film Festival
  • 1965: The Knack (The Knack ... and How to Get it)
  • 1966: Blow Up (Blowup)
  • 1968: The swimming pool (La Piscine)
  • 1969: slogan (slogan)
  • 1969: World of Wonders (Wonderwall)
  • 1969: Katmandu (Les Chemins de Katmandou)
  • 1970: Ticky - One size too small (Trop petit mon ami)
  • 1970: Cannabis - Angel of Violence
  • 1971: A guy who steals horses (Il romanzo di un ladro di cavallo)
  • 1972: Seven Dead in the Cat's Eyes (La morte negli occhi del gatto)
  • 1973: The wild sheep (Le Mouton enragé)
  • 1973: The Tomb of the Living Dolls (Dark Places)
  • 1973: Projection privée
  • 1973: Don Juan 73 (Don Juan ou Si Don Juan était une femme ...)
  • 1974: Serious as Pleasure (Sérieux comme le plaisir)
  • 1974: The long blonde with the red hair (La Moutarde me monte au nez)
  • 1975: The clumsy sixth sense (La Course à l'échalote)
  • 1975: Quartet Bestial (7 Morts sur Ordonnance)
  • 1975: Catherine & Co (Cathérine et Cie.)
  • 1976: Je t'aime (Je t'aime moi non plus)
  • 1976: Quartet of Passions (Bruciati di cocente passione)
  • 1976: Le Diable au coeur
  • 1977: A Crazy Guy (L'Animal)
  • 1978: Death on the Nile (Death on the Nile) ; Directed by John Guillermin
  • 1981: Egon Schiele - excesses
  • 1982: Evil Under the Sun (Evil Under the Sun)
  • 1982: The Sniffer (Nestor Burma, detéctove du choc)
  • 1983: My Friend, the Womanizer (L'Ami de Vincent)
  • 1983: Bodyguard (Le Garde du corps)
  • 1984: Theater of Love (L'Amour par terre)
  • 1984: The Pirate (La Pirate)
  • 1985 Dust (Dust)
  • 1986: Beethoven (Beethoven)
  • 1986: The woman of my life (La Femme de ma vie)
  • 1987: Comédie
  • 1987: Protect your rights (Soigne ta droite)
  • 1987: Jane B. par Agnès V. (Jane B. par Agnès V.)
  • 1987: The time with Julien (Kung-Fu Master)
  • 1989: Daddy Nostalgia (Daddy Nostalgia)
  • 1991: The beautiful troublemaker (La Belle noiseuse)
  • 1995: Noir comme le souvenir
  • 1997: Life is a chanson (On connaît la chanson)
  • 1998: A Soldier's Daughter Never Dies
  • 1999: The Last September
  • 2007: Boxes (also written and directed)
  • 2009: 36 vues du Pic Saint Loup
  • 2010: Thelma, Louise et Chantal
  • 2011: Si tu meurs, je te do
  • 2012: Twice Born - What remains of life (Venuto al mondo)
  • 2013: Quai d'Orsay
  • 2013: Bleu catacombes
  • 2013: Haewon and the Men (Nugu-ui Ttal-do Anin Haewon)
  • 2016: The woman and the express train  ( La femme et le TGV , short film)

Discography (excerpt)

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Date
  CH 29 04/11/2004 (10 weeks)
Fictions
  CH 70 04/02/2006 (3 weeks)
Birkin / Gainsbourg: Le symphonique
  CH 42 04/02/2017 (3 weeks)
Singles
Je t'aime moi non plus (with Serge Gainsbourg)
  DE 3 07/01/1969 (28 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 09/15/1969 (24 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 08/12/1969 (17 weeks)
  UK 2 08/02/1969 (20 weeks)
  US 58 11/29/1969 (10 weeks)
  • Di Doo Dah (1973)
  • Lolita Go Home (1975)
  • Ex Fan Of The Sixties (1978)
  • Baby Alone In Babylone (1983)
  • Lost Song (1987)
  • Jane Au Bataclan (1987)
  • Amours Des Feintes (1990)
  • Integral Au Casino De Paris (1992)
  • Versions Jane (1996)
  • Integral à l'Olympia (1996)
  • The Best Of (1998)
  • A la légère (1999)
  • Arabesque (2002) (live album)
  • Rendez-vous (2004)
  • Fictions (2006)
  • Enfants d'Hiver (2008)
  • Birkin / Gainsbourg: Le symphonique (2017)

Books

Awards

Trivia

"Birkin Bag"

The Parisian fashion house Hermès named a handbag specially designed for Birkin after her in 1984 . Two years earlier, Birkin and the then CEO of Hermès, Jean Louis Dumas, met on a flight from New York to Paris. Birkin, who was carrying an open raffia bag that day, complained to Dumas that the classic Kelly bag from Hermès was beautiful, but much too small. During the flight, Dumas and Birkin began to scribble handbag designs on a napkin. Dumas liked their ideas and after arriving in Paris he gave his designers the order to develop the model. The first collection of the Birkin Bag appeared in 1984.

literature

  • Gabrielle Crawford: Jane Birkin. Illustrated book. Hannibal, Planegg 2005, ISBN 3-85445-260-8 .

Documentary film

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Je t'aime moi non plus ( memento of the original from February 20, 2009 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. on the arte.tv website  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  2. ^ Edwin Faust: Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson , Stylus Magazine , September 1, 2003. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  3. ↑ Tim Auld: Jane Birkin: marching to her own tune . In: The Telegraph , February 13, 2009. Retrieved January 30, 2012. 
  4. ↑ Culture: Jane Birkin sings Gainsbourg again. In: zeit.de . April 16, 2017. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Jan Mühldorfer: Jane Birkin sings soulfully, tenderly and sadly. In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Retrieved September 22, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Chart discography albums
  7. ↑ Chart discography Singles
  8. ↑ Honorary Leopards at the Locarno Film Festival. (No longer available online.) Kulturradio from rbb, August 5, 2016, archived from the original on September 14, 2017 ; accessed on October 3, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kulturradio.de
  9. ↑ In the Bag . In: Time magazine . April 17, 2007. Retrieved January 30, 2012.
  10. ↑ Annette C. Anton, The grip on the bag . Munich, 2005. pp. 124f., ISBN 978-3-453-35090-8

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SURNAME Birkin, Jane
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birkin, Jane Mallory (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH London