Le Available aux Enfers

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Le Available aux Enfers ( The “Available” in the Underworld ) is an operetta by Germaine Tillion (1907–2008) in French. It was publicly premiered in 2007 at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris on her 100th birthday - more than 60 years after the work was created in a German concentration camp .

Germaine Tillion practiced the libretto in 1944/1945 hidden in a box without instruments with other prisoners in the Ravensbrück concentration camp .

A documentary film about the making of the production in 2007 shows excerpts from operettas, including pieces of music inspired by Bruno Coquatrix , Reynaldo Hahn , Georges Bizet , Henri Christiné , Oscar Straus and Henri Duparc . The recordings are commented on by the theater director Bérénice Collet and the music arranger Christophe Maudot and complemented very impressively by the reports of six former female prisoners, including Germaine Tillion herself. Writing, composing and singing enabled "small escapes" and mutual laughter in the face of the apparently inescapable, but not accepted, fate of the deportees in custody.

The term "available" in the title refers to the prisoner category of those prisoners who were not assigned to a specific work command by the SS and who, in the eyes of the SS, were considered freely disposable, available and usable.

premiere

Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, June 2nd and 3rd, 2007.

  • Orchester de Chambre Pelléas, conductor Hélène Bouchez
  • Director: Bérénice Collet
  • Music (restitution et compositions musicales): Christophe Maudot
  • Stage design and costumes: Christophe Ouvrard
  • Chorégraphy: Danièle Cohen .
  • Actors: Gaële Le Roi , Jeannette Fischer , Carine Séchehaye, Claire Delgado-Boge, Emmanuelle Goizé, Hélène Delavault, Alain Fromager.
  • Chœurs de la Maîtrise de Paris and the Collèges Camille Claudel and Evariste Galois
  • Ballet: dancers from the Conservatoires municipaux de Paris

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See also

literature

  • Germaine Tillion: Le Available aux enfers. Une opérette à Ravensbrück. Editeur: La Martinière, 2005, ISBN 2-7324-3281-4 (French).
  • Silke Segler-Meßner : " Le Available aux Enfers - Theater play in Ravensbrück", in: Dies. (Ed.): Survival story (s) in the Romance cultures of remembrance. Research Perspectives, Berlin: Frank & Timme, pp. 131–160.

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