Joseph Pujol

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Joseph Pujol around 1890

Joseph Pujol (born June 1, 1857 in Marseille ; † August 8, 1945 ) was known as a "Fartomaniac" and under his stage name Le Pétomane known art fart . The name is derived from the French verb péter ( fart ).

Life

Joseph Pujol was born at 13 rue des Incurables, one of five children of the stonemason and sculptor François Pujol and his wife Rose . He went to school until the age of 13, after which he began an apprenticeship as a baker and then worked as a master baker in the Saint Charles district in one of the houses his father had built. In 1883 he married Elisabeth Olivier, the daughter of a butcher, with whom he had ten children. His wife died in 1930.

He gained his fame through his involvement in the Moulin Rouge , where he appeared on the elephant stage , which was located in the garden and which owes its name to the decoration with an elephant, in the 1890s. At the height of his career from 1890 to 1894, his fee is said to have been higher than Sarah Bernhardt 's.

Already in his youth, Pujol discovered his talent by controlling his intestinal sphincter, first sucking in water and later also air, then expelling it again in the form of odor-free intestinal noises and modulating the pitch or blowing out candles, later using a hose or wind instruments during his stage performances played the bum.

His performances delighted audiences, including famous personalities such as the British heir to the throne Edward, the Belgian King Leopold II and Sigmund Freud. The Danish king had him perform at his court.

Pujol's astonishing repertoire included the Marseillaise , popular melodies such as the children's song "Au clair de la lune" or "Le bon roi Dagobert" , the imitation of musical instruments such as the tuba , "noises made when two yards of calico are torn apart" to to his own improvisation on the background noise of the earthquake in San Francisco in 1906. After his time at the Moulin Rouge , he founded his own theater, the Théâtre Pompadour , which went on tour in a small tent and in which other artists performed alongside Pujol . With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914 he ended his stage career and returned to his bakery. In 1922 he founded a bakery factory in Toulon .

In 1945 Pujol died at the age of 88 and was buried in the cemetery of La Valette-du-Var in the Var department , where his grave can still be visited.

Film adaptations

Le Pétomane du Moulin Rouge (1900)

In 1979 the English director Ian MacNaughton shot the half-hour short film Le Pétomane about Pujol, played by the British comedian Leonard Rossiter .

In 1983 the Italian director Pasquale Festa Campanile filmed the life of Joseph Pujol again under the title Il Petomane , with Ugo Tognazzi in the lead role.

The character of Maurice in the Catalan feature film La teta i la lluna made by Bigas Luna in 1994 is modeled on the pétomaniac .

In 1998 the documentary Le Petomane: Fin de siècle fartiste , directed by Igor Vamos, premiered at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

In 2005, US director Steve Ochs made a half-hour short film called Le Petomane: Parti avec le vent about Pujol.

In pop culture

The children's ballet school where Jake takes ballet lessons in the Two and a Half Men series is called Les Petites Petomanes.

literature

  • Jean Nohain, François Caradec: Le Pétomane du Moulin-Rouge . Mazarine, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-86374-326-0
  • René Faber: From thunder beams, night vases and artificial farters, a fun cultural story. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8218-1182-X , p. 296 f .: Arena of the flat-rate artists .
  • Alfred Limbach, Robert Pütz: The fart . Illustrated by Tomi Ungerer , Heyne, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-453-01678-5
  • Wilhelm Ruprecht Frieling: The talented Kunstfurzer in: Killer, Kunstfurzer, castrati . Reports on unusual fates . Internet book publisher, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-941286-69-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Pujol, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petomane, Le
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French art farter
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Marseille
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1945