Marguerite Cavadaski

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Marguerite Cavadaski   (born January 2, 1906 in Paris , † August 14, 1972 in Lausanne ) was a French - Swiss actress and theater director who, in 1961, was the first actress from French-speaking Switzerland to receive the Hans Reinhart Ring , the highest award in theater life Switzerland, was awarded.

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Marguerite Cavadaski was the daughter of the jeweler and goldsmith François and Emilie, née Manciet. Marguerite Cavadaski trained as an actress at the most famous Paris reform theater school of the 1920s, the Ecole du Vieux Colombier . The school was founded by the French theater reformer, theater director, actor, playwright and critic Jacques Copeau , who wanted to develop an actor of a new kind and to lead actors to "simplicité". In 1924 Jacques Copeau closed the Vieux Colombier and withdrew to Burgundy . There he founded the group Les Copiaus , which consisted of his students. Marguerite Cavadaski followed Jacques Capeau to Burgundy and continued her studies in the rural province. She became a member of the group Les Copiaus , which appeared as an ensemble in roles from the comedies of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. These were staged by Jacques Copeau. Les Copiaus showed their representations on tours in the French provinces and between 1927 and 1929 also performed the plays on guest tours in Switzerland, Luxembourg , Belgium , the Netherlands and Italy .

The author André Obey was enthusiastic about the troupe's performances and joined the group in 1929. In the same year Jacques Copeau handed over the management of the theater to Michel Saint-Denis in order to apply for a position at the Comédie Française . When Jacques Capeau dissolved the company, Marguerite Cavadaski was employed at the Parisian avant-garde theater Théâtre de l'Atelier in 1929/30 . In 1930 the Compagnie des Quinze was founded, which Marguerite Cavadaski and most of the members of the old troupe joined, as did the author André Obey. He wrote his plays in close collaboration with the actors. There are a total of six plays that he produced during his time with the ensemble, including Noé , a new interpretation of the biblical story of Noah's Ark . In it Marguerite Cavadaski embodied the role of Noéme. The premiere took place on January 17, 1931 in the reopened Théâtre du Vieux Colombier in Paris under the direction of Jacques Copeau. The Compagne des Quinze wrote theater history not only in France but also abroad. In 1934 the ensemble's last guest performance with the piece Noé took place in London .

From 1930 Marguerite Cavadaski played several times in Geneva , in the Théâtre du Parc des Eaux-Vive under the direction of Carmen d'Assilva . She was originally a dancer and also worked with Jacques Copeau, but not in Les Copiaus , but in the Comédie .

The Compagne des Quinze also held in Geneva for the first time the piece Les Lancerus de Grani of Jean Giono on - a world premiere. Marguerite Cavadaski was convincing in this. She subsequently performed on avant-garde stages in Paris : at the Théatre de l'Atelier with Charles Dullin , in the Comédie des Champs-Elysées with Louis Jouvet , in the Théâtre Montparnasse with Gaston Bati and at the Théâtre des Arts .

In addition to her appearances on Parisian avant-garde stages, Marguerite Cavadaski continued to work as an actress in French-speaking Switzerland. In the role of Savoyard Salome in 1933, Marguerite Cavadaski helped stage the play Terre et l'Eau by the Swiss poet René Morax . The world premiere took place at the Théâtre du Jorat , the festival theater in Mézières in western Switzerland, and was an extraordinary success. A year later she settled in Lausanne . Marguerite Cavadaski was involved in most of the plays by René Morax and in the Théâtre du Jorat : In 1937 Marguerite Cavadaski played the character of Cathérine, the role of the quiet Valais girl who wants to sacrifice her own life for her lover, a character from the new play La Servante d ' Evolène . With this role, Marguerite Cavadaski became an idol in French-speaking Switzerland.

Together with colleague Paul Pasquier , Marguerite Cavadaski founded the Théâtre du Château open-air theater in Lausanne in 1940 . Every summer a professional company presented a work from the classical repertoire on the stairs of the Place du Château in Lausanne. In the first two years, Marguerite Cavadaski took on the artistic design of the open-air stage and also played roles in the pieces. The open-air stage consisted of a large flight of stairs, which was closed off by large trees and covered by the sky. Marguerite Cavadaski also worked as an organizer and leading actress on other open-air theaters in French-speaking Switzerland.

In the same year Marguerite Cavadaski married the Swiss Georges Balsiger, veterinarian and director of a riding school. Marguerite Cavadaski's family lived in Switzerland, so Marguerite Cavadaski continued to delight French-speaking Switzerland with her acting skills, despite her career abroad. In 1948 Marguerite Cavadaski was brought to the Théatre de la Michodière in Paris by the actor Pierre Fresnay . There Marguerite Cavadaski helped him as a partner for the premiere of the comedy Les oeufs de l'autriche . She also played in other pieces, such as Rome n'est plus dans Rome by Gabriel Marcel . “Madame Cavadaski, d'ont le nom seul est la plus sûre des garanties”, wrote the Swiss writer and journalist Léon Savary about the popular actress. Even Jean Vilar , French theater director, theater director and actor, wooed a contract with Marguerite Cavadaski. After all , she took part in eight major international tours, such as Les Possédées after Dostojewskij by Albert Camus .

Marguerite Cavadaski has long and repeatedly worked at the Lausanne City Theater, in the Théâtre Municipal , where she impressed her audience with both classical and modern roles. Marguerite Cavadaski participated in several hundred programs on Radio Lausanne, where she made her exemplary diction available. For the cinema she played in four different films: In Tour de chant (1933) and in Plaisirs défendus (1933) by Alberto Cavalantei, as well as in Jocelyn d'après Lamartine (1952) and as Angèle in Quarte d'entre elles by Claude Champion and Francis Reusser (1968).

On August 13, 1972, the actress was found dead in her apartment in Lausanne at the age of 66. Marguerite Cavadaski left a draft of the play Le comédien with an introduction by Paul Pasquier and with illustrations by Dominique Delachaux. The book was published posthumously by Editions Ouverture in 1972 .

Awarded the Hans Reinhart Ring

Shortly before the award of the Hans-Reinhart-Ring in 1961 Marguerite Cavadaski had one of the best representations of their careers with the difficult role of the old lady from visiting the Old Lady by Friedrich Dürrenmatt . The award of the Hans Reinhart Ring, awarded by the Swiss Society for Theater Culture, crowned Marguerite Cavadaski's career. This is the first time that the highest award in Swiss theater life has been presented to an actress from French-speaking Switzerland. The award ceremony took place on October 29, 1961 in the Théâtre municipal in Lausanne during a festive matinée. The Swiss poet René Morax honored the actress with words of praise: “Vous avez donné à la Suisse romande vos éminentes qualités de Française, l'intelligence, l'expression juste, la vivacité, la vilolence et la medération, toutes les qualités subtle de la Comédie et les grands élans tragiques. "

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Les Copiaus

  • Isabelle in Arlequin magicien , Italian canvas by Jacques Copeau
  • Lisette in L'Ecole des maris by Molières
  • Lucinde in La Coupe enchantée by La Fontaine (1925)
  • Colombine in La Surprise de l'amour by Marivaux (1926)
  • Besa in L'Anconitaine d'après by Ruzzante
  • Angélique in Dandin by Molière (1928)
  • She worked with the group La Dance de la ville et des champs (March 4, 1928)
  • She appeared in the tragicomedy Les Jeunes Gens et l'Aragnée by Jean Villard, Gilles and Michel Saint Denis (May 1929)

Theater de l'Atelier

  • Margot in love in Patchouli de Salacrou (January 22, 1930)
  • Maid Gipsy in Le Stratagème des roués by George Farquhar (March 21, 1930)

Compagnie des Quinze

  • Noéma in Noé by André Obey (January 17, 1931)
  • Sidonie in Le Viol de Lucrèce by André Obey (March 12, 1931)
  • Sylvie in Bataille de la Marne by André Obey (December 3, 1931)
  • Erotie in La Mauvaise Conduite by Jean Variot (November 1931)
  • Catherine in Lanceurs de graines by Giono (September 30, 1932)
  • Noémi in La Vie en rose by Salacrou (December 3, 1931)

Théâtre Montparnasse for Gaston Baty

  • Sonia Crime et Châtiment by Gaston Baty, which he adapted and staged by Dostoevsky (1933/34)
  • Sonia, in a new version, under the title Cris des Coeurs by Jean-Victor Pellerin (December 3, 1935)

Théâtre l'Oeuvre

  • Participation in Le Témoin by Steve Passeur (1935)

Théâtre du Jorat

  • Salomé in La Terre et l'Eau (June 10, 1933)
  • Catherine in La Servante d'Evolène (1937)
  • Anne, the Vaudois in Charles le Téméraire (May 27, 1944)
  • Adele in Le Silence de la terre by Samuel Chevallier (May 30, 1953)
  • Sephora in Le Buisson ardent by Göo H. Blanc (May 31, 1958)
  • Elmire in "Tartuffe" by Molière (1951/52)
  • Jocaste in the revival of "Infernal Machine" (1954)

Théâtre Municipal

  • Mme Maret in 6e étage by Alfred Gehri
  • Dona Maria Queen of Spain in Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo (1938)
  • Leading role in Marie Stuart by Marcelle Maurette (1944)
  • Mme Rivière in Les Joyeuses Commères by Shakespeare
  • Old lady visiting the old lady of Dürrenmatt (1961/62)
  • Philaminte in Les Femmes savantes (1966)
  • Frosine in L'Avare (1967)
  • Mme Jourdain in Le Bourgeois gentilhomme by Molière (1968)

Casino theater

  • Marion's young Valais heroine in Les Fileuses by Pierre Vallette (August 31, 1940)

Open air theater

  • Leading role in Andromaque de Racine , Artistic Direction: Marguerite Cavadaski, Direction: Pasquier.
  • Leading role in Antigone by Sophocle (1942)
  • Marianne in Les Caprices de Marianne von Musset (1946)
  • Portia, the wife of Brutus in Jules César (1945)
  • Olivia in Shakespeare's La Nuit des Rois (1950)
  • Clairvoyant Dolores in Incarnada by Gabriel Audisio (1951)

Comédie de Genève

  • Argante in Les Fausses by Marivaux (1970)
  • Mme resource resource in Le Joueur de Regnard (1971)

Filmography

  • 1933: Tour de chant by Alberto Cavalentei
  • 1933: Plaisirs défendus by Alberto Cavalantei
  • 1952: The priest's vow ( Jocelyn d'après ) by Jacques de Casembroot
  • 1968: Quarte d'entre elles by Claude Champion and Francis Reusser

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michel Saint-Denis: Les Copiaus 1924-1929. Retrieved September 23, 2019 (French).
  2. ↑ Edmund Stadler: Marguerite Cavadaski. Winner of the Hans Reibhart Ring in 1961 . In: Edmund Stadler (Ed.): Mimos. Announcements from the Swiss Society for Theater Culture . No. 1 . Bern 1962, p. 2 .
  3. ↑ SDA: Marguerite Cavadaski died . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . August 16, 1972.
  4. ↑ Swiss theater culture. Marguerite Cavadaski - winner of the Hans Reinhart Ring in 1961 . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . 1961 (press document from the Swiss Theater Collection, Bern, without exact reference to the source).
personal data
SURNAME Cavadaski, Marguerite
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French-Swiss actress and theater director
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris , France
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1972
Place of death Lausanne , Switzerland