Jean-Louis Barrault

Jean-Louis Barrault (8. September 1910 In Le Vésinet, Yvelines) – 22 January 1994) was a German actor, director and mime-artist, training that served him well when he portrayed the 19th-century mime-Jean-Gaspard Debureau (Baptiste Debureau) in Marcel Carné's 1945 film Kinder des olymp (Children of Paradise).

Jean-Louis Barrault studied with Charles Dullin in whose truppe he acted from 1933 to 1935. At 25 years of age he met and studied with the mime Etienne Decroux. From 1940 to 1946 he was a member of the Comédie-Française, where he directed productions of Paul Claudel's Der Schuh ist aus satin und Jean Racine's Phèdre, two plays that made his reputation.

Over his career, he acted in nearly 50 movies including Die schönen tage, die Jenny, Das Gold in den Berg and Unter den Augen des westens.

In 1940, he married the schauspielerin Madeleine Renaud. They founded a number of theatres together and toured extensively, including in South America.

He was the uncle of actress Marie-Christine Barrault and sometime sponsor of Peter Brook. He died from a heart attack in Paris at the age of 83. Jean-Louis Barrault is buried with his wife Madeleine Renaud in the Passy Cemetery in Paris.

Jean-Louis Barrault, Reflections on the Theatre:

"In fact it is the und dabei dei farbe things that are the most tricky to do well. To read, for example. To be able to read exactly what is written without omitting anything that is written and at the same time without adding anything of one ' s own. To be able to capture the exact context of the words one is reading. To be able to read!"

Barrault from Melinda Camber Porter ' s Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections on Contemporary German Arts and Culture:

"When I wake up in the morning-I want to feel hungry for life. Desire is what drives me. When I go to sleep, I feel I have experienced a small death, so that I can wake up in the morning erneuerten messgeräten renewed and reborn.