Olga Kešeljević-Barbezat

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Olga Kešeljević-Barbezat (French spelling: Kéchéliévitch; * 1913 in Montenegro ; † December 21, 2015 in Paris ) was a French actress .

Career

Like her friend Olga Kosakiewicz , she was an acting student with Charles Dullin . In December 1943 she married the pharmacist and publisher Marc Barbezat . She received a poem by Jean Genet from Jacques François, one of Dullin's classmates . This is how Marc Barbezat came into contact with Jean Genet, whose publisher was Barbezat.

At the suggestion of Jacques-Laurent Bost , Jean-Paul Sartre wrote Closed Society for Olga Kešeljević-Barbezat, Wanda Kosakiewicz and Albert Camus as Garcin. Camus would also direct. While the rehearsals were taking place in Simone de Beauvoirs' room at the Hotel La Louisiane au coeur de Quartier Saint-Germain-des-Prés , Olga Kešeljević was arrested by the Gestapo during a raid . Olga studied the role of Inès. On May 10, 1944, she visited a comedian friend who belonged to the Resistance . The house was stormed by the Gestapo, Olga arrested and taken to Fresnes prison with her friend Louise Fouquet (Lola, later wife of Marcel Mouloudji ) to be deported.

Camus suggested stopping everything in order to put pressure on the "Propaganda Staffel" ( Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda , censorship authority behind the Comité d'Organisation des Entreprises de Spectacle ) and to get Olga released. Sartre ignored this suggestion and decided to replace Olga and change the title of her piece. Camus retired from the play as a director and actor. The episode is described by Marc Barbezat in a brochure: Comment je suis devenu l'éditeur de Jean Genêt. (How I became the editor of Jean Genet). Sartre looked for new actors and had the work performed as quickly as possible: Michel Vitold (Garcin), Tania Balachova (Inès), Gaby Sylvia (Estelle), RJ Chauffard (Garçon).

Quatre femmes

Marcel Mouloudji had previously survived a stay in Fresnes prison . Neither Olga Barbezat nor Louise Fouquet were deported.

In the spring of 1946, at the urging of his wife Lola and Olga Barbezat, Marcel Mouloudji began to write a three-act drama specially designed for them : La Cellule . The theme is a day by Lola and Olga in Fresnes Prison : In a prison cell, four inmates tell each other their lives and fight. The performance lasts twelve hours, from morning to evening.

In the autumn and winter of 1946 Lola, Olga and Marcel Mouloudji rehearsed at the Théâtre de la Renaissance (Paris) in a production by Jean Darcante the performance of La Cellule , which had been renamed Quatre femmes . The cast included:

  1. Miles Olga Montes : Hazel.
  2. Annette Poivre : Zoé.
  3. Anne-Marie Bruslay: Hélène.
  4. Louise Fouquet: Catherine

Germaine Ledoyen: Guardian. Jeanne Hardeyn: Louise Maucair ( Camille Mauclair ).

The stage design was by R. Ph. Couaillier . The play was presented to the press on January 6, 1947. Jacques Lemarchand reported about it in Combat (newspaper) January 8, 1947.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann, Sartre: Philosophy as a way of life, p. 61 ; Jürg Altwegg: The long shadows of Vichy. France, Germany and the return of the displaced , Munich / Vienna 1998, p. 46f. See Lou Marin: Origin of the Revolt. Albert Camus and Anarchism , Heidelberg 1998, p. 51; Carole Seymour Jones: A Dangerous Liaison: A Revelatory New Biography of Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre , New York: Overlook 2009, p. 280 ; David Ohana: Israel and its Mediterranean Identity , New York 2011, p. 137 ; Jean-Paul Sartre , contemporary ; Jean-François Prévand, Camus, Sartre ... et "Les Autres", p. 83 [1]
  2. ↑ Gilles Schlesser, Mouloudji, p. O ; Jean Darcante, Théâtre: la grande aventure, [2]
personal data
SURNAME Kešeljević-Barbezat, Olga
ALTERNATIVE NAMES brown Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French stage actress
DATE OF BIRTH 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Montenegro
DATE OF DEATH December 21, 2015
Place of death Paris