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Bruno Bayen
Birth Date:13 November 1950
Birth Place:Paris, France
Alma Mater:École Normale Supérieure
Occupation:Novelist, playwright
Parents:Maurice Bayen

Bruno Bayen (13 November 1950 – 6 December 2016) was a French novelist, playwright and theatre director.

Early life

Bruno Bayen was born on 13 November 1950 in Paris.[1] [2] [3] His father worked as the rector of the University of Strasbourg.[2] With his four siblings, he grew up in Clermont-Ferrand and Strasbourg.[1] [4]

Bayen graduated from the École Normale Supérieure.[1] [2] [3]

Career

Bayen founded La Fabrique, a theatre company, and directed several plays for five years.[5] In 1972, he directed his first play, Le Pied by Victor Hugo.[1] Two years later, in 1975, he was appointed as co-director of the Grenier de Toulouse, a theatre in Toulouse, alongside Maurice Sarrazin.[3] [5] However, he stepped down in 1978.[1] Over the course of his career, he went on to direct 30 plays, some of his own as well as plays by German playwrights Frank Wedekind, Georg Büchner, Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.[4]

Bayen was the author of more than a dozen books, including novels, plays and essays. He was also a German-to-French translator. For example, he translated the works of Peter Handke into French.[4] In 2006, he was disinvited from a talk at the Comédie-Française for his ties to Handke, who had attended Serbian dictator Slobodan Milosevic's funeral.[4] [6]

Bayen was also the author of two libretti: Schliemann, composed by Betsy Jolas, in 1995;[7] and Jusqu’à l’extinction des consignes lumineuses, composed by Arrigo Barnabé, in 2005.[8]

Death

Bayen died on 6 December 2016.[2] [5]

Works

Novels

Plays

Notes and References

  1. News: Kéchichian. Patrick. Salino. Brigitte. Bruno Bayen, écrivain et metteur en scène, est mort. December 9, 2016. Le Monde. December 9, 2016.
  2. News: Roussel. Frédérique. BRUNO BAYEN, FUGUE SANS RETOUR. December 8, 2016. Libération. December 6, 2016. December 7, 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20161207132808/http://next.liberation.fr/culture-next/2016/12/06/bruno-bayen-fugue-sans-retour_1533470. dead.
  3. News: Delporte. Cecilia. Décès du romancier et metteur en scène Bruno Bayen. December 9, 2016. Les Echos. December 7, 2012.
  4. News: Le dramaturge et romancier Bruno Bayen est décédé à 66 ans. December 9, 2016. France Info. December 7, 2016.
  5. News: Heliot. Armelle. Mort de Bruno Bayen: le théâtre pour la vie. December 8, 2016. Le Figaro. December 7, 2016.
  6. News: Salino. Brigitte. Bruno Bayen, victime collatérale de l'"affaire Handke". December 9, 2016. Le Monde. June 17, 2006.
  7. Jolas . Betsy . Menesse . Aline . Sur Schlieman . Nouvelle revue d'esthétique . 2013 . 2 . 12 . 173–184 . 10.3917/nre.012.0173 . Cairn.info.
  8. News: Ópera retrata vida e obra de Santos Dumont . Jornal da USP . August 8, 2005 . XXI . 734 . University of São Paulo . December 9, 2016.

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