Tristan Bernard

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Tristan Bernard (1923)
Tristan Bernard, 1898. Drypoint by Toulouse-Lautrec .
Tristan Bernard has contributed to La revue blanche magazine . Toulouse-Lautrec poster from 1895.

Tristan Bernard (born September 7, 1866 in Besançon ; died December 7, 1947 in Paris ; actually Paul Bernard ) was a French lawyer , writer , sports journalist and successful playwright for the tabloid theater .

Life

Bernard was born into a Jewish family of architects. At the age of 14 he moved with his family to Paris and attended the Lycée Condorcet there . He studied law and after his military service became an employee in an aluminum works. After his first publications in the early 1890s in the literary newspaper La Revue blanche , he gave himself the stage name Tristan Bernard .

In 1895 Tristan Bernard, who was then editor-in-chief of the Journal des Vélocipédistes , became director of the Buffalo Velodrome . As such, it was drawn by Henri Toulouse-Lautrec . He is credited with inventing the bell sign at the beginning of the last lap of a bike race.

He wrote 40 pieces of love and thieves for the boulevard theater and was especially known for his puns . He worked for the magazine L'Endehors published by Zo d'Axa and participated in the newly founded magazine Le Canard enchaîné during the First World War .

Édouard Vuillard portrayed Bernard's wife Marcelle Aron several times and painted both in 1911/12 in the picture “Madame Aron's Salon” . He was involved in the expansion of the board game Jeu des petits chevaux in the 1930s.

Drancy

When the French Jews were rounded up, he too was deported to the Drancy assembly camp. He, who has always been famous for his puns, is said to have said to his wife:

“ Until yesterday we lived in fear, from today on in hope. "

Public protest by Sacha Guitry and Arletty ensured his liberation. Bernard's grandson François was murdered in Mauthausen .

He lived in Enghien-les-Bains outside Paris . He is buried in the Cimetière de Passy cemetery in Paris.

The Théâtre Tristan Bernard in Paris is named after him.

His son Raymond Bernard became a film director and also filmed his father's plays, the other son, Jean-Jacques Bernard, 1888–1972, also wrote plays like his father and wrote his biography in 1955, Mon père Tristan Bernard . A third son became a doctor. The grandson Christian Bernard is active with the Rosicrucians .

Works (selection)

Pieces

  • Les pieds nickelés (1895)
  • L'anglais tel qu'on le parle (1899)
  • Triple flap (1905)
  • Le petit café (1911)
  • Les Jumeaux de Brighton (1908)

Novels, short stories

  • Vous m'en direz tant (1894)
  • Contes de Pantruche et d'ailleurs (1897)
  • Sous toutes réserves (1898)
  • Mémoires d'un jeune homme rangé (1899)
  • Amants et voleurs (1905)
  • L'affaire Larcier (1924)
  • Robin des bois (1935)
  • Un Mari pacifique (1901)
  • Aux abois (1933)

Movie

Painting by Vuillard

literature

  • Jean-Jacques Bernard: Mon père Tristan Bernard , Paris: Albin Michel, 1955
  • Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques: Tristan Bernard et ses fils: Jean-Jacques Bernard, auteur dramatique, Raymond Bernard, auteur réalisateur de films, Etienne Bernard, médecin des hôpitaux. , Paris: Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques, 1981.
  • Olivier Merlin: Tristan Bernard ou le temps de vivre , 1989 ISBN 2-7021-1604-3
  • Stefan H. Reiner (Ed.): French Boulevard Theater , 1962

Web links

Commons : Tristan Bernard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Augustin d'Ollone: Tristan Bernard at la conference (PDF; 95 kB) at la conference
  2. ↑ Tristan Bernard in: Der Große Brockhaus , 1929
  3. ↑ The picture Le salon de Madame Aron , 1911–1912 was stolen by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg , see Painting Stoles During WW II Returned to France
  4. ↑ "Jusqu'à présent nous dans l'vivions angoisse, désormais, nous l'espoir vivrons dans." . Even Elie Wiesel quotes him: "" Until now, I have lived in fear, "he said. "From now on, I will live in hope." Elie Wiesel at Newsweek 2/2009
  5. ↑ Théâtre Tristan-Bernard see French Wikipedia fr: Théâtre Tristan-Bernard
  6. ^ Jean-Jacques Bernard at DNB
personal data
SURNAME Bernard, Tristan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bernard, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Besançon
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1947
Place of death Paris