Jean Jourdheuil

Jean Jourdheuil (born December 28, 1944 in Saint-Loup-sur-Semouse ) is a French theater director , screenwriter and translator .

Life

Jourdheuil was decisively shaped by the student protest movement in France in May 1968 . He started as a dramaturge and got to know numerous like-minded artists. The resulting close cooperation in direction and decor became a basic requirement for his rehearsals. In 1972 he staged In the Thicket of Cities with Gilles Aillaud as a set designer .

In 1974 he founded the Théâtre de l'Espérance with Jean-Pierre Vincent . In 1979 he staged Hamlet Machine and Mauser by Heiner Müller , he also translated. From 1984 to 1994 Jourdheuil directed the Sapajou Theater together with Jean-François Peyret, where he performed particularly demanding pieces, including dramatizations of the essays by Michel de Montaigne and the sonnets by William Shakespeare . In 1995 he directed the French premiere of Kleist's Die Hermannsschlacht at the Théâtre des Amandiers .

Jourdheuil directed not only spoken theater but also music theater , for example in 2003 in Stuttgart for La finta giardiniera and in 2004/05 for Idomeneo . He also worked as a screenwriter and translator. He translated works by Bertolt Brecht , Georg Büchner , Hartmut Lange and Karl Valentin . In 1978 he wrote a play about Jean-Jacques Rousseau . In his writings on theater theory, he dealt with the economic and political implications of theater.

literature

• Horst Schumacher: Jourdheuil, Jean . 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. 356 f.

Web links

• Jean Jourdheuil in the Internet Movie Database (English)