Zazie de Paris

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Zazie de Paris (* before 1950 in Paris ), actually Solange Dymenzstein , is a transsexual French actress and singer .

Life

As a child of Jewish parents, Zazie grew up in France and Israel and, from the age of eight, received ballet training at the Paris Opera . She worked for twelve years as a classical dancer with Maurice Béjart in the Alcazar, among others, and was a permanent member of the ensemble at the Hamburger Schauspielhaus for ten years.

In the 1970s she stripped in various bars, and in the Parisian revue theater “Alcazar” “Serge de Paris” was one of the attractions for four years. She received her singing and acting training at the Théâtre École de Montreuil . When, after years of classical dance, she had enough of hard discipline, she switched to the underground scene and reappeared as the new star of the classical stage. At the Théâtre de l'Odéon she played in Peter Zadek's production of Maß für Maß . As Zazie de Paris , director Peter Zadek brought it to the Schiller Theater in Berlin in the early 1980s in his Fallada revue Everyone dies for himself . she played alongside Ute Lemper and Eva Mattes and in The Blue Angel at the Theater des Westens (Zadek, Savary). In 1985 Zadek brought her to his staging of Joshua Sobol's Ghetto at the Deutsche Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, where she was part of the ensemble for ten years. Here she was seen in 1986 in Der Bürger als Edelmann as a bizarre dance master alongside the main actor Heinz Schubert . Zazie worked with well-known directors such as Martin Wuttke at the Berliner Ensemble or Jérôme Savary .

In 1998 she played under the direction of Werner Schroeter in a stage version by Monsieur Verdoux at the Berliner Ensemble and under the direction of Peter Zadek at the 1999 Salzburg Festival in Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny . In the same year her first CD was released: Zazie de Paris - Why Madame, Why? She worked closely with Martin Wuttke. In 1999 she was seen at the Schauspielhaus Zürich in Woyzeck . In 2000, she stood together with Irm Hermann and Katharina Blaschke in Franz Wittenbrink's Secretaries on the stage of the Berlin Schiller Theater.

She has appeared in several films and has made a few appearances on television. Zazie received roles in Wieland Speck's movies, including Westler and Das Geräuser Schneller Erlösung . On television, Zazie de Paris moderated the “Off Line” in Berlin and the benefit gala against the closure of the Berlin Schiller Theater. Directed by Claude-Oliver Rudolph, she starred with Nikolai Kinski and Cosma Shiva Hagen in the road movie Dirty Sky . She also starred in "Deux" (Schroeter) with Isabelle Huppert . In 2006 she was a guest star with Ulrich Tukur and the Rhythmus Boys in their “Best of” program in the Tipi - the tent at the Chancellery . She could also be seen in the Sophiensäle in Production 5 in the same dress by Alan Ball and in 2005 played in the Hau / Theater Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin with the artist collective “Cheap” in their homage to Carmelo Bene, “One Night Less”. She appeared in the scenic radio play Die Blinden at the Volksbühne in Berlin .

In the Bar of Every Reason , she showed her solo programs The Restoration of a Diva and Rendezvous at midnight . In October 2007 she embodied the fairy godmother in the children's play Stoffel flies over the sea at the Theater an der Parkaue (director: Susanne Sachsse).

In November 2010, the film Kill Me Please by the Belgian-French director Olias Barco won the “Marc Aurel” in gold at the 5th International Rome Film Festival (Marc'Aurelio Jury Award for Best Film). The strip deals with the subjects of suicide and euthanasia with black humor. Zazie plays a suicidal chanson singer who has lost her voice. Zazie de Paris lives in Berlin.

Since 2015 she has played Paul Brix's friend and landlady Fanny in the Frankfurt Tatort episodes .

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personal data
SURNAME Paris, Zazie de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dymenzstein, Solange (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION transsexual French actress and singer
DATE OF BIRTH before 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris