Jean-Louis Martinelli

Jean-Louis Martinelli (born September 3, 1951 in Rodez ) is a French director and theater director .

Life

Martinelli received his engineering degree from the École des Arts et des Métiers de Lyon . As a student, he was staging independently as early as 1975. In 1977 he founded his own acting company in Lyon called the Compagnie du Théâtre du Réfectoire.

He developed an extensive repertoire with no special focus, whereby he mainly took care of the promotion of young playwrights. In 1987 Martinelli became director of the Théâtre de Lyon and in December 1993 director of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg . Here, too, he showed himself to be a versatile director, including two plays by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1995) and the production of Heiner Müller's Germania 3 (1997). In July 1998 he opened the Avignon Festival with his own version of the Hölderlin text Oedipus the Tyrant . From 2011 to 2014 Martinelli was general manager of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre .

literature

• Horst Schumacher: Martinelli, Jean-Louis . In: Manfred Brauneck, Wolfgang Beck (ed.): Theater Lexikon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers . Rowohlt's encyclopedia published by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag. Reinbek near Hamburg, August 2007, ISBN 978 3 499 55650 0 , p. 473 f.