Tristan Bernard
Tristan Bernard ( born September 7, 1866 in Besançon, † December 7, 1947 in Paris, actually Paul Bernard ) was a French lawyer, writer, sports journalist and successful playwright of the Boulevard theaters.
Life
Bernard was born into a Jewish family of architects. At 14, he moved with his family to Paris, where he attended the Lycée Condorcet. He studied law and was after military service employee in an aluminum smelter. After his first publications the early 1890s in the literary journal La Revue blanche, he gave himself the stage name Tristan Bernard.
1895 Tristan Bernard was the then editor of the "Journal of Vélocipédistes " was director of the Buffalo Velodrome. As such, he was drawn by Henri Toulouse- Lautrec. To him, the invention of the bell character at the beginning of the last round of a bicycle race is attributed.
He wrote 40 "Love and thieves pieces" for the Boulevard Theatre and was known for his wit. He was employed by Zo d' Axa published by the magazine " L' Endehors " and participated in the First World War at the newly founded magazine Le Canard enchaîné.
Édouard Vuillard portrayed several times Bernards wife Marcelle Aron and painted both in the circles of society in the " Salon of Madame Aron ." He had been involved in the spread of the board game Jeu des petits chevaux in the 1930s.
Drancy
When the French Jews were rounded up, he was deported to the Drancy transit camp. He who was always famous for his wit supposed to have said to his wife:
" Until yesterday we were living in the fear of today in hope. "
Public protest by Sacha Guitry and Arletty made for his liberation. Bernard's grandson François was killed in Mauthausen.
His apartment he had outside of Paris in Enghien -les- Bains. He is buried in the cemetery Cimetière de Passy in Paris.
In Paris, the " Théâtre Tristan Bernard" is named after him.
His son Raymond Bernard was a film director and also filmed pieces of his father, the other son, Jean -Jacques Bernard, 1888-1972, as his father also wrote plays 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 Patte (1905 )
- Le petit café (1911 )
- Les Jumeaux de Brighton (1908 )
Novels, short stories
- Vous m'en direz tant (1894 )
- Contes de et d' ailleurs Pantruche (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 )
Film
- Tristan Bernard at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Le théâtre de Tristan Bernard ( 1975) at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dernier métro (1945 ) at the Internet Movie Database (English)
Paintings by Vuillard
- Denise Natanson et Marcelle Aron in Villerville, Summer 1910
- Le salon de Madame Aron 0.1911-1912
- Portrait of Marcelle Aron, 1914