Zouc

Zouc (born April 29, 1950 in Saignelégier , Canton Jura; actually Isabelle von Allmen ) is a Swiss actress and cabaret artist .

Life

At the age of 14, Zouc played for her friends. On the advice of Coghuf , she takes classical singing and music lessons in Neuchatel. There she met students in the cafés who tamed her impulsiveness. She becomes part of a collective of authors with whom she develops the piece allégria and appears on stage for the first time.

In 1969 she moved to Paris, where she attended courses at Tania Balachova's theater for a few months and performed her first solo program at the La Vieille Grille theater. The painter Roger Montandon invites you to pose for him and thus lays the foundation for an intensive collaboration. From 1970 to 1981 Zouc played her piece a few hundred times. a. guest at the Cieux Colombier, the Théatre de la Ville, the Le Palace and the Bobino .

Meanwhile, Zouc appears through the resulting contacts, Zouc appeared in Jeux de massacre by Eugène Ionesco, staged by Jorge Lavelli, and in The Birds of Aristophanes with music by Antoine Duhamel in the Lyon Opera. She plays the female lead in films and works with Michel Drach, William Klein, Serguei Bordrov and Jacques Dillon. In 1983 she played the counterpart to Pierre Dux in Monsieur Abel .

In 1984 she staged her play Zouc à l'école des femmes in collaboration with Roger Montandon at the Théatre de Paris. In 1987 she can be seen with a new program at Le Bataclan, which was created in collaboration with Tara Depré. In 1997 she suffered a severe hospital infection from multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteria in the Marie Lannelongue hospital in Pléssis-Robinson . Thanks to treatment at the Croix-Saint-Simon hospital in Paris, she survived, but remained severely physically impaired and had to stop performing on stage.

She then held talks with Claude Massot for the TV Dim-Dam-Dom program (1972) and with Daniel Jeannet for the Radio Suisse Romande channel (1986).

literature

• Françoise Dubor: Zouc . In: Andreas Kotte (Ed.): Theater Lexikon der Schweiz - Dictionnaire du théâtre en Suisse. Volume 3, Chronos, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0715-9 , p. 2154 f. (French)
• Hervé Guibert: Zouc par Zouc (Edition L'Arbalète). Gallimard, Paris 2006, ISBN 2-07-078195-X (realized as a play by Nathalie Baye)

Web links

• Zouc in the Internet Movie Database (English)