Jean-Louis Barrault
Jean-Louis Barrault (born September 8, 1910 in Le Vésinet , † January 22, 1994 in Paris ) was a French actor , pantomime and director .
biography
While still studying with Étienne Decroux , Barrault made his debut at the Théâtre de l´Atelier at the age of 21 . From 1935 he directed his own company (e.g. Hamlet after Jules Laforgue , Hunger after Knut Hamsun ) and played in various films (e.g. Les beaux jours , Jenny , L'Or dans la Montagne , Sous les Yeux d ´occident ). He assumed his most famous role from 1943 to 1945 when he mimes the Baptiste Debureau that the real Jean-Gaspard Deburau , is based in the film Children of Paradise by Marcel Carné played.
In 1940 Jean-Louis Barrault was appointed to the Comédie Française . In the same year he and the actress Madeleine Renaud married . Together they founded the private company Compagnie Renauld-Barrault in the Théâtre Marigny in 1947 and undertook extensive tours with this troupe as far as South America (e.g. São Paulo , Montevideo , Buenos Aires , Santiago de Chile ). The Théâtre Marigny later became known as the home of the first concerts of the Domaine Musical .
After their return to Paris , Barrault and Renaud were directors of the state Théâtre de France in 1959 . When Barrault opened the Odéon venue to students during the May riots in 1968 , he was removed from his post by the Minister of Culture André Malraux and banned from all state-subsidized theaters.
In May 1974, Barrault's troupe succeeded in founding a new theater in the Gare d´Orsay station (which was then empty) . When the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault had to give way to the (today's) museum there in 1981, the French state added the Théâtre du Rond-Point in the building of the former Panorama (1838-1894) and Palais des Glaces (1894-1980) the Champs Elysées a new theater that both Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault ran until their deaths in 1994.
Performances by the Compagnie Renaud-Barrault (selection)
Classical French works
- 1946: Les Fausses Confidences by Marivaux
- 1947: Amphitryon by Molière
- 1949: Les Fourberies de Scapin by Molière
- 1951: On ne badine pas avec l'Amour by Alfred de Musset
- 1954: Le Misanthrope by Molière
- 1955: Bérénice from Racine
Modern French works
- 1948: Occupe-toi d'Amélie by Georges Feydeau
- 1950: Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre by Marcel Achard (title after the folk song of the same name )
- 1950: Les Mains sales by Sartre
- 1955: Intermezzo by Jean Giraudoux
- 1955: Volpone by Jules Romains and Stefan Zweig after Ben Jonson
- 1958: Le Soulier de satin by Paul Claudel
World premieres of French works
- 1947: Le Procès after Kafka by André Gide and Barrault
- 1948: L'Etat de siege by Albert Camus
- 1950: La Répétition ou L'Amour puni by Jean Anouilh
- 1951: Bacchus by Jean Cocteau
- 1953: Christophe Colomb by Paul Claudel
- 1953: Pour Lucrèce by Jean Giraudoux
- 1954: La Soirée des proverbes by Georges Schehadé
- 1955: Le Chien du jardinier from Georges Neveux to Lope de Vega
- 1957: Le Château de Kafka by Pol Quentin after Max Brod
Pantomimes
- 1946: Baptiste , pantomime ballet by Jacques Prévert , music by Joseph Kosma (with Marcel Marceau )
- 1947: La Fontaine de Jouvence by Boris Kochno , music by Georges Auric
- 1954: Renard by Igor Stravinsky , French text by Ramuz
- 1955: Les Suites d'une course , Mimofarce by Jules Supervielle , music by Henri Sauguet
Foreign language works
- 1946: Hamlet by Shakespeare
- 1947: L'Ours by Chekhov
- 1954: Le Cerisale by Chekhov, French text by Georges Neveux
- 1955: L'Orestie by Aeschylus
Filmography (selection)
- 1936: Mayerling , directed by Anatole Litvak
- 1936: Beethoven's great love (Un grand amour de Beethoven) , directed by Abel Gance
- 1937: a strange case (Drôle de drame)
- 1938: J'accuse! Director: Abel Gance
- 1942: Symphony of Love (La symphonie fantastique)
- 1945: Children of Olympus ( Les enfants du paradis ), directed by Marcel Carné
- 1950: Der Reigen ( La ronde ), directed by Max Ophüls
- 1954: Versailles - Kings and Women ( Si Versailles m'était conté ), directed by Sacha Guitry
- 1959: The will of Dr. Cordelier ( Le testament du Docteur Cordelier ), directed by Jean Renoir
- 1960: The sacrifice of a nun ( Le dialogue des Carmélites )
- 1962: The Longest Day ( The Longest Day ), directed by different
- 1964: Fear in the City (La cité de l'indicible peur / La grande frousse) , directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky
- 1982: Escape to Varennes ( La nuit de Varennes ), directed by Ettore Scola
Barrault literature
- I am a theater person. Luchterhand Collection, Frankfurt am Main 1989. Original edition: Je suis homme de théâtre . Editions du Conquistador, Paris 1955.
- Memories for tomorrow. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1973, ISBN 3-10-005902-6 . Original edition: Souvenirs pour demain. Editions du Soleil, Paris 1972.
- Reflections on the theater . (Selected texts from: Nouvelles Réflexions sur le Théâtre. Flammarion, Paris), Peter Schifferli “Die Arche,” Zurich 1962.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean-Louis Barrault in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean-Louis Barrault in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Théâtre du Rond-Point
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Barrault, Jean-Louis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor, mime artist and director |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 8, 1910 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Le Vésinet |
DATE OF DEATH | January 22, 1994 |
Place of death | Paris |