Jean-Pierre Vincent

Jean-Pierre Vincent (born March 26, 1942 in Juvisy-sur-Orge ) is a French theater director and theater director .

Life

Vincent made his first steps in the world of theater together with Patrice Chéreau in the school theater of the Lycée Louis-le-Grand . He caused a sensation in 1966 with a production of Eugène Labiche's comedy The Affair in Rue de Lourcine . Thereupon he was brought to the theater of Sartrouville , which had just been founded , but which was closed after only a year of playing due to excessive indebtedness. He met Jean Jourdheuil at a Brecht college in Grenoble . This started a seven-year close and successful collaboration.

With a demonstratively socially critical intention with emphasis on comic aspects, they staged together and founded the Théâtre de l'Espérance in 1974. When Vincent became director of the Théâtre national de Strasbourg in 1975 , Jourdheuil separated, who did not want to be integrated into the institutionalized theater. In eight years of activity, Vincent made the Strasbourg theater into one of the most important French-speaking theaters outside Paris with the help of an acting school he initiated.

In 1983 he was appointed administrator of the Comédie-Française . He reformed the theater established as Maison de Moliere by opening it up to contemporary drama. After managing the Comédie-Française for three years, he worked as an independent director. In 1990 he took over the management of the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre , where he stayed for eleven years. Many programmatic experiments that time culminated in the after Karl Marx designated piece of Karl Marx , a stage version of Das Kapital . From 2002 Vincent worked again as a freelance director.

In interviews he emphasized the “primacy of the artistic” and turned against the regulatory constraints of institutionalized theater, even if these are intended in the interests of the artists, such as the statutory introduction of the 35-hour week and special regulations on night work .

literature

• Horst Schumacher: Vincent, Jean-Pierre . 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 , pp. 750 f.