René Quellet
René Quellet (born August 4, 1931 in Solothurn ; † August 17, 2017 in Le Landeron , Canton of Neuchâtel ) was a Swiss pantomime artist.
Life
René Quellet grew up in Le Landeron on the German-French language border and learned the trade of goldsmith in Solothurn . After performing as a clown for ten years , he turned to pantomime in the late 1950s , made it his job and toured the world with his own programs.
From 1973 to 1994 he played Franz and René with Franz Hohler for the children's program Spielhaus des Schweizer TV . As a taciturn René - the running gag was his saying I saw nut! ("I'm not saying anything.") - he marked the counterpart to the talkative Franz . In 1988 he played with Franz Hohler and Dodo Hug as Santschi in the Swiss feature film Dünki-Schott , a Swiss-German adaptation of the Don Quixote material.
Since his final tour in Switzerland in 1997, he lived with his wife in retirement.
book
- Franz and René on the excursion. A photo story. With Franz Hohler and René Quellet. Photographed by Eduard Widmer. Zytglogge , Gümligen 1978, ISBN 3-7296-0082-6 .
literature
- Marie-Jeanne Cernuschi: René Quellet . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 2, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 1449. (French)
Web links
- René Ouellet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hansruedi Lerch: Quellet, René. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
- Slapstick with Franz and René - archive pearls from February 23, 1988.
- The stage artist René Quellet has died . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from August 18, 2017.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quellet, René |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss pantomime artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th August 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Solothurn , Switzerland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th August 2017 |
| Place of death | Le Landeron |