Marcel Freydefont

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Marcel Freydefont (second from right) explains the production Éxpedition végétale to Michel Crepin on the Dessau town hall square, 2010

Marcel Freydefont (born June 27, 1948 in Randan , Département Puy-de-Dôme , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes , † July 1, 2016 in Nantes ) was a French scenographer , set designer, actor, director, author and architecture professor of scenology School of architecture, École nationale superieure d'architecture de Nantes (EnsaNantes).

Spaceship Aéroflorale II of the Éxpedition végétale on the town hall square Dessau 2010

Life

Freydefont studied literature, aesthetics and history at the École nationale superieure des arts Clermont-Ferrand (Clermont-Ferrand School of Art). There he realized 40 theater performances (33 sets, 12 productions) between 1966 and 1987, founded the acting company Chiens Jaunes (Yellow Dogs) in 1976 and taught scenography from 1984. In 1987 he founded the CEA Architecture et Scénologie department with Rémi Bourdier, Dominique Troisville and Xavier Fabre at the Clermont-Ferrand School of Architecture and in 1999 moved to the Nantes School of Architecture as director of this department. With Bruno Suner and Laurent Lescop he formed the GERSA, Groupe d'étude et de recherche en scénologie et architecture (study and research group Scenology and Architecture) from 2006 and headed it until his retirement in 2013.

In addition to teaching, Freydefont has published numerous books on the theory and practice of theater. He worked with actors and street theater workshops, in particular with Royal de Luxe , Francois Delarozière (La Machine) and Michel Crespin (FAI-AR Marseille). He was secretary of the Association of Scenographers in France.

In 2009/2010, Marcel Freydefont and Francois Delarozière / La Machine staged the Éxpedition végétale (Green Expedition) on the Dessau town hall square for 5 days . This world premiere was part of the FAUSTT project ( acronym Fusion.Architektur.Urbanismus.Szenographie.Technik. Territory): le devenir de la ville - The becoming of the city , the students of the Nantes School of Architecture and the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences (Manfred Sundermann) in collaboration with the Stage developed by the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation (Burghard Duhm) on the occasion of the Green Color Festival . The Éxpédition végétale was then performed in Metz , Antwerp , Hamburg , Rennes , Nantes , Buenos Aires and elsewhere.

Theater and city

Éxpedition végétale - Botanical laboratory
Éxpedition végétale - Botanical laboratory

Marcel Freydefont was a scholar of acting and scenography in Europe from its beginnings from antiquity ( Vitruvius ) to the present day ( Walter Gropius , Oskar Schlemmer , Ferdinand Kiesler and others). From this historical arc of tension he developed the theory of a théâtre immersif . The stage and drama should be immersed in everyday life from the theater. The city is a stage, the building is a stage, the stage is a stage , he explained. From the théâtre immersif headed Marcel Freydefont 2009 théâtre Infuse from. He saw it as playing with imaginary stories over several days on the given stages of real places with the aim of influencing and changing public coexistence:

«Nous, scénographes, disait-il, sommes en quelque sorte un complément de circonstance de lieu et de temps qui permet à l'action d'avoir lieu. »

"We, scenographers as I said, are, as it were, an addition to a given place and time that allows the action to take place."

- Marcel Freydefont

Works (author / selection)

  • Les lieux scéniques en France 1980-1995: 15 ans d'architecture et de scénographie, 1997
  • La Machine spectacle, 2013
  • Théâtre public, No.215: le théâtre et la ville, 2015
  • Scénographes en France (1975-2015): Diversité & mutations, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Steffen Brachert: “Aeroflorale II” lands and the Bauhaus takes off. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 27, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ La Machine: La Machine. La Machine, 2017, accessed May 7, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Steffen Brachert: "Aeroflorale" lands on the market. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, July 28, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).
  4. ↑ Carla Hanus: Dessau-Roßlau A new green ribbon runs right through the city. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 2, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).
  5. ↑ Steffen Brachert: "Aeroflorale II" sets course for the market place. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, August 31, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).
  6. ↑ Mitteldeutsche Zeitung: Color Festival on Friday Green Uba experts and art. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 2, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).
  7. ↑ Steffen Brachert: Dessau-Roßlau “Friends of Ferry” board the green Bauhaus. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 5, 2010, accessed on May 7, 2017 (German).

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personal data
SURNAME Freydefont, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French scenographer, set designer, actor, director, author and architecture professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Randan , Puy-de-Dôme department , Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2016
Place of death Nantes