Marie-Pierre Pruvot

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Marie-Pierre Pruvot , called Bambi (also known under the pseudonym Marie Pierre Ysser , born November 11, 1935 in Isser, Algeria ) is a French pioneer and idol of the transsexual movement , revue from the 1950s to 1970s, teacher and writer .

Life

childhood

Bambi was born as Jean-Pierre Pruvot in the village of Isser, in what was then the Grande Kabylie department in Algeria. When she was around 3 to 6 years old, she began to wear her older sister's dresses and skirts, but her parents forbade her to do so when she started school. According to her own admission, her childhood, "... although generally happy, ... partially botched, ..., by the contrast on the one hand between my desire to be a girl - and even the certainty that I am and will remain - and on the other hand." Look, the words of those around me, all the obstacles that are placed against my inner truth. Over time I feel the burden of an externally imposed condemnation that forces me to make a constant effort (voice, hairstyle, clothes, gestures, gait ...) to avoid a scandal, especially after the death of my father, which affects me sensitively (I'm 14 years old at the moment). "

During her school days in Ménerville (Arabic: Thénia ) she was a withdrawn child who spent most of the time in her room reading, and "... waiting for a miracle that will make me the woman I am". After the third grade, she switched to a lycée for boys in Algiers.

She began to suffer significantly from her situation, which was also reflected in her academic performance. At the age of 16 she had a key experience when she saw the later famous transsexual Coccinelle in a casino during a tour of the Parisian travesty cabaret Le Carrousel , who at that time had already assumed a feminine appearance through hormones and some cosmetic surgery , but before her sex reassignment surgery. Bambi then decided to go to Paris to live there as a woman and to try her luck in the travesty life there.

Time in paris

Until her debut at the travesty cabaret Chez Madame Arthur in Paris, she had to wait until she reached the legal age of 18. In September 1954 she switched to the Carrousel . She took the stage name “Bambi”, worked and lived with Coccinelle, who “does everything to help me”. In contrast to their travesty colleagues, the two not only appeared on stage as women, but lived an everyday life as women around the clock, although the public wearing of women's clothes was permitted for people who were born and registered as physically male this time was strictly forbidden and was followed by the police. Bambi took estrogens for the purpose of feminizing her body. In addition to Coccinelle, she became a star of the scene and also appeared on tours of the Carrousel .

Two years after Coccinelle's sex reassignment surgery (1958) with Dr. Georges Burou in Casablanca , who was a sensation in the press at the time , also had Bambi operated on, and from then on was also a woman physically. Her previous friend and partner then left her.

After the Carrousel was moved to Club Elle et Lui , she met Ute, a lesbian woman from Germany who called herself "Eric", and with whom she performed together. A love relationship developed between the two .

Because of her Algerian descent, and because of the Algerian-French war in the 1960s, Bambi had to wait years for her identity papers to be corrected, despite her gender reassignment and despite her clearly feminine appearance. She eventually turned directly to Algerian authorities and received the name change requested . From then on she was officially called Marie-Pierre Pruvot; automatically she also got a birth entry as "female".

Studies and career as a teacher

While she continued to earn her living at night with performances in the Carrousel , she began studying for her baccalauréat during the day , which she finally caught up with at the age of 33. She then studied French literature at the Sorbonne , with all the required degrees (1972 License, 1973 Maîtrise, 1974 Capes), and finally got a job as a teacher of French literature at a school in Cherbourg in 1974 from the Éducation Nationale . Since she missed her former contact with the Parisian nightlife there, two years later she moved to the Collège “ Pablo Picasso ” in Garges-lès-Gonesse in the Paris region. Here she taught for 25 years without her past as a "travesty" star coming to light. At the end of her teaching career, she was awarded the “ Palmes académiques ”. At that time, she was only the second teacher at her school to receive this honor.

After retirement: books, films, awards

After her retirement , Bambi published various books, initially under the pseudonym Marie-Pierre Ysser the novel J'inventais ma vie - for which she later wrote several serial volumes - and in 2007 also her autobiography Marie parce que c'est jolie (“Marie, because it's so pretty ”; Editions Bonobo). Since then she has been revered by the French transsexual movement as one of the most important pioneers.

Marie Pierre Pruvot was invited to several talk shows on French television over the next few years (including on 28 January 2008 by Mireille Dumas in “Vie privée, vie publique” on France 3). The filmmaker Sébastien Lifshitz filmed her life using old image and film material: The film Bambi received the Teddy Award for best documentary film at the Berlinale in 2013 and was nominated for César in 2014 in the category “best short film”. Before that, she had worked alongside April Ashley , Colette Berends and others in the Dutch documentary I am a woman now (originally: Casablanca Revisited , 2011) by Michiel van Erp, which deals with the lives of some transsexuals who were led by Dr. Georges Burou in Casablanca. Bambi / Marie Pierre Pruvot can also be seen in the television documentary Absolument Trans by Stéphanie Cabre and Claire Duguet (first broadcast on June 9, 2016 at 10:25 pm on Arte ). In July 2015, she was photographed by New York photographer Steven Meisel for the Italian edition of Vogue .

Bambi herself said in retrospect about her life that, in her opinion, she had not achieved everything that she could have achieved under other circumstances, “... The complexity of my difficulties has completely occupied me. As far as the major orientations of my personal life are concerned, I am sure that I made the right decisions at the right time. "

On November 24, 2014, she was awarded the Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite by former minister Roselyne Bachelot at the Center LGBT in Paris . In her acceptance speech, Bambi commented on the current situation of transsexual people in France:

[…] Il ya encore en France aujourd'hui trop de gens tenus à la marge et qui n'aspirent qu'à vivre librement, normalement, sans scandale, à pouvoir voyager sans entraves, à se faire soigner à l'hôpital sans humiliation , toutes choses qui leur sont souvent inaccessibles. C'est à eux maintenant que je dédie cette décoration qui m'honore tant [...]

“... There are still too many people in France who are marginalized and who long to live freely, normally and without scandal, to be able to travel without obstacles, to be treated in hospital without embarrassment - everything Things that are often out of their reach. I hereby dedicate this award to you, which is such a great honor for me ... "

- Bambi : in her acceptance speech on the occasion of the award ceremony of the Chevalier dans l'ordre national du Mérite , 24 November 2014

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bambi biography on her official website , as viewed January 2018
  2. ↑ Bambi made personal statements during the program Transgenres - la fin d'un Tabou? seen on French television in November 2017 , seen January 2018. See also: Marie Pierre Pruvot: Marie parce que c'est jolie , Editions Bonobo, 2007 (autobiography, French), first chapter
  3. ↑ "Mon enfance, bien que globalement heureuse, est en partie gâchée, du plus loin qu'il me souvienne, par l'opposition entre, d'une part, ma volonté d'être une fille, et même la certitude que je le suis et le resterai, et d'autre part, les regards, les paroles de mon entourage, tous les obstacles de la réalité qu'on oppose à ma vérité intérieure. Au fur et à mesure que le temps passe, je sens peser une condamnation extérieure qui m'oblige à une constante contention (voix, coiffure, vêtements, gestes, démarche ...) pour éviter le scandale, surtout après la mort de mon père, qui me fragilise (j'ai alors 14 ans). ”See: Bambi biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  4. ↑ “Pendant tout le temps passé au collège, à Ménerville (en arabe: Thénia) je passe ma vie à lire dans ma chambre (je réussis donc très bien à l'école) et à attendre un miracle qui fera de moi la femme que je suis. ”See: Bambi biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  5. ^ "Après la class de 3ème, je vais au grand lycée de garçons d'Alger. Je souffre alors du dérisoire de ma situation. Je ne peux plus étudier. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , as viewed January 2018
  6. ^ “Avant d'abandonner (j'ai 16 ans 1/2) je découvre au casino tout proche une tournée du Carrousel, avec Coccinelle, qui en est à ses débuts. Mon sort est fixé. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  7. ↑ "The débute chez Madame Arthur à 18 ans (âge légal). On September 1954, je rentre au Carrousel. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  8. ↑ "Je travaille et j'habite avec mon amie Coccinelle qui fait tout pour m'aider." See Bambi's biography on her official website , accessed January 2018. See also: Marie Pierre Pruvot: Marie parce que c'est jolie , Editions Bonobo, 2007 (autobiography, French), pp. 140–166
  9. ^ "La police est alors tatillonne, interdit le port du vêtement féminin. Il faut lutter, tenir tête, ne pas lâcher. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , as viewed January 2018
  10. ^ "L'année suivante, Coccinelle part en tournée, je suis vedette au Carrousel. Un an plus tard, c'est moi qui pars en tournée. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  11. ^ "Coccinelle a découvert les oestrogènes, elle découvre à Casablanca le docteur Burou. Elle se fait aussitôt opérer, alors que j'attends deux ans avant d'en faire autant. Cela brouille mes amours avec mon ami. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed January 2018.
  12. ↑ On the entire complex of topics relating to the operations of Coccinelle and Bambi, see also: Marie Pierre Pruvot: Marie parce que c'est jolie , Editions Bonobo, 2007 (autobiography, French), pp. 187–188, and pp. 194–203
  13. ↑ "Le Carrousel change d'address et devient contigu à Elle et Lui , club" féminin "or je fais la connaissance d'une" garçonne ", Ute, qui prend le nom d'Eric et devient mon inoubliable partenaire. Nous présentons ensemble des numéros saphiques tant chez Elle et Lui qu'au Carrousel et dans les tournées. ”See the biography of Bambi on her official website , viewed January 2018
  14. ↑ Marie Pierre Pruvot: Chapter “Ute”, in Marie parce que c'est jolie , Editions Bonobo, 2007 (autobiography, French), pp. 208-214
  15. ↑ "Lorsque Coccinelle se marie, je n'ai pas encore obtenu mon état civil féminin. La guerre d'Algérie, suivie de la secession, me plonge dans l'embarras. J'attends qu'on rapatrie mon état civil. En désespoir de cause, je me rends à Alger où les autorités Algériennes m'accordent aussitôt le changement: Jean-Pierre devient Marie-Pierre, née de sexe féminin. Ce jugement s'applique en France automatiquement, sans procédure d'exequatur. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed in January 2018
  16. ^ "Tout en travaillant au Carrousel, je me remets aux études. Each match mon bac à 33. The rentre à la Sorbonne. License 1972. Maîtrise 1973. Capes 1974. C'est cette même année que je suis nommée professeur de lettres à Cherbourg. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , as viewed in January 2018
  17. ↑ “… C'est pour moi un grand succès, mais ma séparation d'avec le Carrousel me fait beaucoup souffrir. The rentre après deux ans en région parisienne dans un collège de réputation très moyenne, “Pablo Picasso” à Garges-lès-Gonesse. Je m'y attache et j'y reste 25 ans. On me décore des Palmes Académiques. Jamais mon passé de “travesti” n'a transpiré tout au long de ma carrière à l'Education Nationale. ”See the biography of Bambi on her official website , viewed January 2018
  18. ^ Marie Pierre Pruvot: Marie parce que c'est jolie , Editions Bonobo, 2007 (autobiography, French), p. 276
  19. ↑ Bambi in various television programs (French) , accessed on January 18, 2018
  20. ^ "Bambi dans le VOGUE Italia par Steven Meisel", (French) , accessed on January 18, 2018
  21. ^ "Bambi en couverture de" Vogue "(French) , accessed on January 18, 2018
  22. ↑ "J'avoue, en faisant le stated, avoir l'impression de ne pas avoir accompli tout ce que je pouvais faire dans ma vie: je me suis tenue à l'écart de la grande querelle de la guerre d'Algérie. C'est que la complexité de mes difficultés m'accaparait entièrement. En ce qui concerne les grandes orientations de ma vie personnelle, j'ai la certitude d'avoir pris les bonnes décisions au bon moment. ”See Bambi's biography on her official website , viewed January 2018
  23. ↑ See Bambi's official website , as seen in January 2018
  24. ↑ Bambi's official website , as viewed January 2018
personal data
SURNAME Pruvot, Marie-Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bambi (pseudonym); Ysser, Marie Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French pioneer and idol of the transsexual movement, revue dancer, teacher, writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Isser, Algeria