Jean-Claude Grumberg
Jean-Claude Grumberg (born July 26, 1939 in Paris ) is a French writer , screenwriter and actor .
Live and act
Grumberg's father, a Romanian Jew, had settled in France before World War II. After the Wehrmacht marched into Paris, he was deported. His mother fled with the children to the unoccupied Vichy France . After school, Grumberg completed an apprenticeship as a tailor from 1953 to 1957.
On the side he took acting classes and played with amateur groups. Since 1961 Grumberg worked with the Compagnie Jacques Fabri. It was then that he began to work literarily. Among other things, a scenic adaptation of the novella Das Duell von Chekhov and the farce Mathieu Legros , which premiered in 1969 at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse in Paris, was created.
His first performed piece was the one-act Michu in 1967 , in which he dealt with the topic of anti-Semitism . In 1968, the premiere of Morgen, which is still in the tradition of the absurd theater , followed , a window to the street from 1966.
In 1971 his Amorphe d'Ottenburg appeared at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon, about the insane Crown Prince Amorphe, who kills a handicapped and a child every day to get rid of the useless eater in his principality. Grumberg's final breakthrough came in 1974 with the play Dreyfus , which premiered in Germany in the same year at the Münchner Kammerspiele under the direction of Hans Schweikart . The focus of this play is a group of amateur actors in the Jewish community of a small Polish town, who are rehearsing a play about the Dreyfus affair as “theater-in-theater” . Grumberg called Dreyfus "the invented biography of my parents."
In 1979 Das Atelier was premiered at the Théâtre National de l'Odéon , in which the fate of a little Jewish tailor in the Parisian Quartier des Halles is portrayed after the end of the Second World War. Based on anti-Semitism, racial discrimination and chauvinism are recurring elements in Grumberg's work, which is also characterized by pronounced humor and theatrical effect.
Together with Constantin Costa-Gavras he wrote the script for his film The Deputy . Since then he has worked on all of Costa-Gavras' other films and wrote the scripts for The Ax , The Colonel and Me and Eden is West with him .
Awards
In 1991 Grumberg was awarded the Prix Molière in the "New Pieces" category for his work Free Zone . In the same year he received the Grand Prix de l ' Académie française for his complete dramatic works .
In 2003 he and Costa-Gavras received a César in the category Best Adapted Screenplay for Amen based on the play Der Stellvertreter .
In 2012 he received the Prix Max Cukierman .
Plays (selection)
- Le Duel
- Michu
- Rixe
- Dreyfus
- Les Vacances
- Amorphous d'Ottenburg
- Chez Pierrot
- En r'venant de l'Expo
- Maman revient, pauvre orphelin
Filmography (selection)
- 1966: Tomorrow, a window on the street (Demain une fenêtre sur rue)
- 1970: Ticky - One size too small (Trop petit mon ami)
- 1974: Mathieu Legros, de held van Austerlitz
- 1979: The Atelier (L'Atelier)
- 1980: The last metro (Le Dernier Métro)
- 1985: A Song of Days to Come (Les lendemains qui chantent)
- 1988: emerging years (Les années sandwiches)
- 1992: The Little Apocalypse (La petite apocalypse)
- 1994: Dirty laundry (Linge sale)
- 1995: Les milles - Trapped in the camp (Les milles)
- 1998: Le plus beau pays du monde
- 1999: Fait d'hiver
- 2000: Apprenticeship in Paris (Julien l'apprenti)
- 2002: The Deputy (Amen)
- 2002: A child of our time (Unfils dans notre temps)
- 2005: The ax (Le couperet)
- 2005: The Colonel and I (Mon Colonel)
- 2007: Free Zone (Zone libre)
- 2009: Eden is West (Eden à l'Ouest)
- 2010: Nylons and cigarettes (Cigarettes et bas Nylon)
- 2012: Le Capital
literature
- C. Bernd Sucher (Ed.): Theater Lexikon. Authors, directors, actors, dramaturges, stage designers, critics. By Christine Dössel and Marietta Piekenbrock with the assistance of Jean-Claude Kuner and C. Bernd Sucher. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2nd edition 1999, ISBN 3-423-03322-3 .
Web links
- Jean-Claude Grumberg in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Grumberg, Jean-Claude |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, screenwriter and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |