Jean-Pierre Althaus

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Jean-Pierre Althaus (born May 22, 1949 in Geneva ) is a Swiss writer , actor and theater director. He is the founder and director of the Théâtre l'Octogone in Pully .

life and work

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Althaus began in 1971 as a student of Germaine Tournier, then Philippe Mentha, his acting career at the Carouge Theater under the direction of François Simon , whose assistant he was also. Since then he has had various roles on stages in the French-speaking part of Switzerland on a regular basis. He has performed over fifty shows, and is the author of eighteen plays and eight books.

In 1975 he took part as an actor in a French creation of Météore by Friedrich Dürrenmatt based on an unpublished translation by Marcel Aymé at the Théâtre de La Comédie in Geneva. In 1989 the singer-songwriter Michel Bühler wrote him the role of Bailiff Gessler in The True Story of William Tell . In 1989 he reopened the Café Théâtre de la Voirie in Pully with his comedy Cinderella is a poufiasse . At the request of the city of Pully , in 2003 he wrote and created a piece on the stage of the octagon entitled Le Vert de Desmoulins, ça ira! to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the canton of Vaud . In 2005 he had the title role in the film The Adventures in the East by Baron Tavernier by the director Philippe Nicolet. In 2009, on the occasion of the Octagon's 30th anniversary, he created his first solo exhibition with the title The highlight of the show is in the Toolbox , and in 2012 his second with the title Heidi Baba and the Forty Yodelers . In the meantime, he directed The Two Fell On Their Heads in 2011 , a piece of several humorous sketches written for actress Khany Hamdaoui and himself. In 2014 he toured with Anna Mouglalis in Un Voyage by French director Samuel Benchetrit . Accompanied by the musicians Marina Paglieri and Soojin Lee, he hosted a fourth show about Rousseau and Voltaire in 2015, entitled The thoughts are not just flowers . In the same year Néfertiti et Gominet , her comedy for actress Maria Mettral, premiered in Montreux. In 2016 he interpreted the role of Caius in the 3D film by Philippe Nicolet .

In 2017 he and the violinist Rachel Kolly d'Alba created his piece about the heroines of classical literature Anna, Nana, Nanana as part of the Le Livre sur les quais festival in Morges . This monologue is the subject of a cinematic adaptation entitled Les Hérosnes swarm, le Comte affabule , a film made in 2018 as part of the Château de L'Isle, directed by Jean-Paul Daguzan.

He was appointed Administrator of Cultural and Artistic Promotion in Pully in 1979, then Director of the Théâtre de l'Octogone from May 1, 1979 to December 31, 2010 and Head of the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Pully from 1988 to 2010. For four years he also worked in the theater department of the daily newspaper 24 heures .

In 2002 his first novel "Le mystère de Sétépen-Rê" was published by Éditions Séguier and in the same year "L'Homme est un loup pour l'ogre", a story of contemporary Swiss theater enriched with anecdotes. He wrote a biography of Emmanuelle Seigner , various essays and two comedies.

Awards

  • 2010: Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature.

Theatrical appearances

  • 1970 Simple police , directed by André Béart-Arosa
  • 1975 La Pêche Miraculeuse , directed by Pierre Matteuzzi
  • 1977 Les Années d'illusion , directed by Pierre Matteuzzi
  • 1980 Les Dames de Coeur directed by Paul Siegrist
  • 1987 Florence et la vie de château directed by Jean-Jacques Tarbes
  • 1989 La Véritable Histoire de Guillaume Tell , directed by Serge Minkoff
  • 2000 Le Signe de Onze heure , directed by Philippe Nicolet
  • 2003 Le Prisonnier de Chillon , directed by Jean-Philippe Weiss
  • 2005 Les Aventures en Orient du Baron Tavernier , directed by Philippe Nicolet
  • 2011 Confidences et Sentiments directed by Gianni Notaro
  • 2014 Un Voyage directed by Samuel Benchetrit
  • 2016 L'Esclave et le Hibou directed by Philippe Nicolet

Fonts

  • Voyage in the theater . Favre 1983.
  • Ecrire à Pully . Pully 1991
  • Elle a du chien, Mademoiselle Baskerville Editions L'Aire 1992.
  • You Barnum chez Burne ou les Amants de l'Arène . Editions L'Âge d'Homme 1992.
  • Le Mystère de Sétépen-Ré . Séguier Archimbaud 2002.
  • L'Homme est un loup pour l'ogre . Séguier 2002.
  • with Michel Archimbau: Mitsou, histoire d'un chat . Editions Les Belles Lettres 2004.
  • Emmanuelle Seigner, cinéma, théâtre, mode et chanson . Favre 2014. ISBN 978-2-82891-459-2
  • Envoûtantes héroïnes, le destin fascinant des grandes figures féminines de la littérature . Favre 2019. ISBN 978-2-82891-810-1

literature

  • François Marin: Jean-Pierre Althaus , in: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Chronos Verlag Zurich 2005 Vol. 1, pp. 40–41.

Web links

Commons : Jean-Pierre Althaus  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Althaus, Jean-Pierre: Notice # 41378 . ( patrinum.ch [accessed on July 13, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Althaus, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer, actor and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva