Sotigui Kouyaté
Sotigui Kouyaté (* around 1936 in Bamako , French Sudan , today Mali , † April 17, 2010 in Paris ) was a Burkinabe actor and former football player .
Life
Kouyaté was born in 1936 (according to other sources in 1934) to parents from Gambia . He turned first to football, played in the position of libero and as a national player came on two missions for the Obervoltas team , today's Burkina Faso . He also worked as a boxer, male nurse or civil servant and turned to acting after working for the radio. In 1966 he founded a theater group with his own resources. From the beginning of the 1970s, roles in feature films followed. In May 1983, Kouyaté was discovered by the British director Peter Brook for his theater production of the Indian epic Mahabharata and invited to Paris. With the piece he made a guest appearance on Broadway in New York , whereupon further engagements for the Griot at Brook should follow.
After the success in the play, Kouyaté moved to France. He soon belonged to the core troupe around Brooks Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord and went on a world tour with success in its productions of William Shakespeare , Sophocles and contemporary authors. In 1998 he directed a production of Sophocles' Antigone at the Blaye Theater Festival , which was later to be relocated to the Malian Mandeka Théâtre.
1985 Kouyaté was in the role of Marabout in Thomas Gilous award-winning feature film comedy Black Mic Mac alongside Jacques Villeret and Isaach De Bankole to see. Often - due to his tall, gaunt figure - he was cast in the role of the stubborn, wise old man. He celebrated his greatest success in 2009 by winning the performer price of the Film Festival Berlin for his starring role in Rachid Bouchareb's drama London River . He had also worked with Bouchareb on the award-winning film Little Senegal (2001).
Kouyaté was the father of ten children. His son Dani Kouyaté (* 1961) works as a director and gave him a role in the film Keita! L'heritage du griot (1994). Another son, Hassane Kassi Kouyaté, is a storyteller and actor by profession.
In 2010, Kouyaté died of a lung disease at the age of 74.
Plays (selection)
- 1985: Mahabharata by Jean-Claude Carrière , directed by Peter Brook (role: Bhishma / Parashurama)
- 1990: The Tempest by William Shakespeare , directed by Peter Brook (role: Prospero)
- 1993: L'homme qui / The Man Who based on Oliver Sacks , directed by Peter Brook
- 1996: Qui est la ?, directed by Peter Brook (role: Geist)
- 1999: Antigone by Sophocles , directed by Sotigui Kouyaté (role: Creon)
- 1999: Le Costume / The Suit by Can Themba , directed by Peter Brook (role: Maphikela)
- 2002: La Tragédie d'Hamlet by William Shakespeare, directed by Peter Brook (role: Polonius)
- 2004: Tierno Bokar by Amadou Hampâté Bâ , director: Peter Brook (role: Tierno Bokar)
Filmography (selection)
- 1972: FVVA
- 1974: Toula or the Spirit of Water ( Toula ou le génie des eaux )
- 1982: Black Scorpion ( Le courage des autres )
- 1983: Le Médecin de Gafiré
- 1986: Black Mic Mac
- 1989: Boulevards d'Afrique
- 1989: Le Mahabharata
- 1992: Golem, l'esprit de l'exil
- 1992: IP5 - Island of the Pachyderms (IP 5 - L'île aux pachydermes)
- 1993: Tombés du ciel
- 1994: Keïta! The legacy of the griot ( Keita! L'héritage du griot )
- 1995: Crazy Night ( À cran )
- 1995: Le Maître des éléphants
- 1997: Saraka Bô
- 1999: The heirs of Cain and Abel ( La Genèse )
- 2001: Little Senegal
- 2001: Sia, le rêve du python
- 2002: Dirty Pretty Things (Dirty Pretty Things)
- 2002: The Truth About Charlie
- 2002: Journey into the polar night ( Jim, la nuit ; TV)
- 2003: Gateway to Heaven
- 2004: Génésis (narrator)
- 2005: L'Annulaire
- 2005: Travaux, on sait quand ça commence ...
- 2007: Faro, la reine des eaux
- 2009: London River
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ cf. Héliot, Armelle: Adieu à Sotigui Kouyaté at blog.lefigaro.fr, April 18, 2010 (accessed on April 18, 2010)
- ↑ a b c cf. Sotigui Kouyaté, sacré griot entre terre et songe . In: Le Temps, January 21, 2004 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ cf. Sotigui Kouyaté, comédien . In: La Croix, 23 September 2009, No. 38468 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ cf. Migliorini, Robert; Royer, Philippe: Sotigui Kouyate, un griot à Harlem . In: La Croix, April 18, 2001, p. 21
- ↑ cf. Gobin, Marie-Laure: La création résiste . In: Sud Oest, June 19, 1998 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ cf. Busch, Annett: The sea has changed . In: the daily newspaper, July 4, 2002, p. 12
- ↑ Awards of the Berlinale 2009 , accessed on April 29, 2017.
- ↑ cf. Hassane Kouyaté: "Je suis un zèbre et je revendique mes deux couleurs" . In: 24 Heures, May 30, 2007, p. 39
- ↑ cf. Décès du comédien burkinabè Sotigui Kouyaté on allocine.fr, April 18, 2010 (accessed on April 18, 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kouyate, Sotigui |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Burkinabe actor and soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1936 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bamako , French Sudan , now Mali |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 17, 2010 |
| Place of death | Paris |