Rodolphe Salis
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Rodolphe Salis (born May 29, 1851 in Châtellerault , † March 20, 1897 in Naintré , Vienne ) was a French cabaret artist, painter and graphic artist, who was known as the owner of Le Chat Noir ("The Black Cat"), which was known as first literary cabaret applies.
Life
His cabaret artistique , which opened in 1880 on the Boulevard de Rochechouart on Montmartre and offered its guests “cheerful entertainment combined with time criticism”, was actually planned by Salis as a pub by artists for artists, but from the beginning the establishment was frequented and by the bourgeois public Because of its success it soon became a model for literary cabaret at home and abroad.
Salis grew up in the small town of Châtellerault, where his father ran a distillery and disapproved of his son's artistic inclinations. At the age of 23, Salis went to Paris, where, under pressure from his family, after a short career as a less than successful painter and graphic artist, he looked for sources of income and came up with the idea of setting up a cabaret - at that time nothing more than one of many artist pubs on Montmartre . In order to distinguish himself from the numerous others, he and Émile Goudeau came up with the idea of adding hospitality to his literary circle Les Hydropathes . He called his establishment called Chat noir, which was housed in a converted post office, cabaret artistique , a kind of restaurant with cabaret performances for guest entertainment. It was intended to serve as a meeting place for artists and painters to exchange ideas. One of the first regulars was Aristide Bruant . But the chat noir not only developed into a meeting place for the bohemians , but was increasingly frequented by Parisian society, so that the small bar quickly became too narrow. Because of the crowds in front of the restaurant, the authorities intervened and an ultimatum: Either the shop was closed or everyone was allowed access! In 1885, Salis decided to move into a three-storey villa on Rue de Laval (now Rue Victor Massé) in order to expand. Aristide Bruant took over the old premises and furnished his Le Mirliton .
In addition to the chanson stage, Salis also set up a shadow theater at the new location , the artistic design of which was made by Henri Rivière . The villa also housed the editorial staff of the Chat Noir journal , a weekly newspaper launched by Salis with verses, short stories and illustrations.
Salis died surprisingly in early 1897, shortly after contracting tuberculosis . The chat noir was closed that same year. His grave inscription bore the saying ascribed to him:
- God created the world, Napoléon founded the Legion of Honor . - I did Montmartre.
Awards and honors
On May 6, 2008 he was posthumously awarded the Star of Satire .
literature
- Steven Moore Whiting: Satie the bohemian: from cabaret to concert hall. Oxford University Press, 1999, ISBN 0-19-816458-0 .
Web links
- Information from the German Cabaret Archive (PDF file; 101 kB)
- Biography (french)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kristina Mahlau: Entertainment between censorship and protest: The emergence of literary cabaret (1880-1905). ISBN 3-8370-3006-7 , p. 32.
- ↑ "Hommage à Salis le Grand", in 88 notes pour piano solo , Jean-Pierre Thiollet , Neva Editions, 2015, pp. 146–147. ISBN 978 2 3505 5192 0 .
- ↑ Kristina Mahlau: The art of entertainment between censorship and protest: The emergence of literary cabaret (1880-1905) using the example of Frank Wedekind. Books on Demand, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-3006-8 .
- ^ Jean-Paul Caracalla: Montmartre, gens et légends. Table ronde, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7103-2846-9 .
- ^ Rainer Otto, Walter Rösler: cabaret history. Demolition of the German-language cabaret. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1977, DNB 780160940 , p. 26.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Salis, Rodolphe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French cabaret artist, painter and graphic artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 29, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Châtellerault |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 20, 1897 |
| Place of death | Naintré |