Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt (born the March 28th 1960 with Lyon) is a writer and playwright French. He lives now in Belgium, with Ixelles.

Youth

In the edition " Traditional & Contemporary " of the Night of Valognes, it is declared that Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt paints itself like a rebellious teenager, not supporting the generally accepted ideas and sometimes victim of excess of violence. But according to him, philosophy would have saved it while learning how to him to be itself and to feel free. One day, his/her mother takes it along to see a representation of Cyrano of Bergerac (Rostand) with Jean Marais. The child is upset to the tears and the theater becomes its passion.

It is then put to write, it will say later: " At sixteen years, I had included/understood - or decided - that I was writer, and I composed, put in scene and played my first parts with the lycée." To improve its style, it is devoted with ardor and enthusiasm to exercises of rewriting and pastiche, in particular of Molière.

Formation

Born parents professors from physical education, he studies in Khâgne with the Lycée of the Park and makes a success of the entrance examination of the National university. He studies 1980 there with 1985 and in fate by making a success of a aggregation of Philosophie. Its university thesis has as a title: Diderot and the Metaphysical . He taught one year with Saint-Cyr military school during his military service, three years with Cherbourg and the university of Chambéry.

Agnostic during several years, it returned recently to the Christianisme.

Career

In the night of February 4th, 1989, during a forwarding in the Sahara, it is prone to a mystical experiment: the feeling of the Absolute appears with him. A sentence occupies all its thoughts: “All is justified”. This upheaval makes him cross the course to pass to the writing. As of the beginning of the Years 1990, its parts of Théâtre bring a fast success to him: the Night of Valognes was played in many countries. Its second part, the Visitor obtains a price at the time of the Nuit of Molières 1994. In 1997, enigmatic Variations is created with for main actors Alain Delon and Francis Huster. Frédérick or the boulevard of the crime is created simultaneously in France and Germany, Jean-Paul Belmondo playing in the setting in original scene with the Théâtre Marigny. Its parts were played in 35 countries successfully; for example, the part Mr Ibrahim and the flowers of Coran were played and published at the same time in France and Germany: in 2004, the book was sold with more 250  000 specimens in France and 300  000 in Germany.

Schmitt also wrote three parts in an act, in general for humanitaires  causes;: Francis Huster plays the devil in the School of the devil that Schmitt wrote for one evening special of the organization Amnesty International. Thousand and one lives was written for the operation the culture that changes the life Popular help.

In same time, it composes of the Romance S. In 2000, the Gospel according to Pilate is a critical success and sales on a subject touching with the history of Jesus Christ. The following year, Schmitt delivers another novel on a historical character prone to débat : with the Share of the other , it writes a Uchronie which Adolf Hitler would have succeeded in entering to the École of the Art schools of Vienna  : its future and that of the world change whole with the whole it.

It is impassioned of music. It touched with the opera with the translation in French of two works of Mozart  : the Marriages of Figaro and Don Giovanni , composed of the musics, carried out CD.

Topics

Works of Schmitt attract the public by putting in scene famous historical characters. He proposes reading tracks to try to include/understand their life and their acts:

The religion also holds a great place in works of Schmitt, often by confronting two characters of different religions:

The three works of Schmitt ( Mr Ibrahim and flowers of Coran , Oscar and the pink lady and the Child of Noah ) also show a reflection of the author on the place of the child in the family. Each time, a child adopts a new family, a new father. For some critical, it would be the author who incarnates himself in these children.

Rewards

  • 1993 :
    • France, Paris, Molière of the best spectacle of the theater deprived for the Visitor .
  • 1994 :
  • 1995 :
  • 1996 :
    • France, Paris, two nominations with the Molières for enigmatic Variations .
  • 1997 :
    • Germany, Cologne, Price of the Theater of the city for the Libertine .
    • France, Paris, six nominations with the Molières for the Libertine .
  • 1998 :
    • France, Paris, Price of the Academy Balzac and two nominations with the Molières for Frederick and the Boulevard of the Crime .
  • 2000 :
    • France, Paris, seven nominations with the Molières for Hotel of the two worlds .
  • 2000/2001 :
    • France, Knight about Arts and of the Letters.
  • 2001 :
  • 2004 :
    • France, Price of the readers of the Company of the writers and the Lyons book and rhônalpins.
    • France, Lyon, Price of Sélyre.
    • France, Price Jean Bernard of the Academy of Medicine for Oscar and the pink lady .
    • France, Price Stopwatches for Oscar and the pink lady .
    • France, the Lire magazine carries out a survey near the French so that they indicate the " books which changed their life " : Oscar and the pink lady - exceptional fact for an alive author is quoted with the Bible, the three Musketeers or the Small Prince .
    • Germany, Deutscher Bücherpreis (Grand Prix of the public/Publikumspreis) for its Account Mr Ibrahim and flowers of Coran .
    • Germany, Berlin, Price Die Quadriga, for " its humanity and the wisdom whose its humor succeeds in nourishing the hommes".
  • 2005 :
    • Swiss, Price Stopwatches for Oscar and the pink lady .

Works

Literature

Theater

Audio-visual

  • filmed Theater:

    • Hotel of the two worlds
    • the Libertine
    • Small marital crimes
    • My Gospels
    • the Gospel according to Pilate
    • the Night of the olive-trees

  • Books read and interpreted by the author:

    • Mr Ibrahim and flowers of Coran
    • Oscar and the pink lady
    • the Gospel according to Pilate
    • the Child of Noah
    • My life with Mozart
    • Enigmatic Variations
    • the Libertine

See too

References

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