Georges Brassens

Georges Brassens (* 22. October 1921 in Sète, France; † 30. October 1981 in Saint Gély you Fesc) was a French poet and writer, above all however into the 1950-70er years an important Chansonnier (author and interpreter (voc, guit)).

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Brassens was the son of a modest building contractor, that from Sète (Dépt. Herault) came. Its nut/mother was a very gläubige and music-loving Neapolitanerin. At the age of 14-15 years the young Georges beganTo write chanson. After abort of its studies in the Collège Paul Valéry in its place of residence it applied 1939 to Paris . There did he live with its aunt Antoinette (n.n.?) and short time worked at the Renault works as an apprentice. 1942 it published 13 poems under the title Ala venvole. 1943 it was deportiert as a forced laborer to Germany.

After the war he found a lodging in the dwelling of Jeanne Le Bonnier and their man (n.n.?) in the Impasse Florimont 9 in Paris. Jeanne, around 30 years older than it, remained itsmütterliche friend up to their death. Brassens wrote songs for its man („chanson pour l'auvergnat “), for it („Jeanne “) and for its duck („La cane de Jeanne “). The first chanson, which it spoke publicly, was „Le gorille “, a very deep song against the death penalty; it becamelater of Franz Josef Degenhardt in a German version („caution! Gorilla “) as well as of Fabrizio de André on Italian sung („Attenti aluminium gorilla “).

1952 had Brassens its first successful public appearances in Paris Kabarett of the well-known Chanteuse Mme. Patachou, to which it had offered its chansons;it found however fast that this many more meaningfully by it were spoken. The first disk photographs followed. During the 1950er and 1960er years Brassens became one of the most popular representatives of the artistic French chanson at all. Brassens lived a life rather withdrawn and preferred personalFriends before each Starrummel. A sentence of it: ‚Where more than four squat together, wird's a Deppenhaufen. `He did not live also under a roof with its estnischen life companion Joha Heyman („La non demande EN mariage “, de: „I do not ask for your hand “), which he affectionately „Püppchen “called, and it on all tours and up to his end of life accompanied. After appearance each new long playing record arose in each case it some months in France. Outside of its homeland it stepped twice into Luxembourg and once into Great Britain on (this concert became as only Brassens„Live ones “- admission publishes).

In the film of havens of the Lilas (de: The Mausefalle) of René Clair (1956) plays Brassens „the Artiste “and sings there also some its chansons, among them „havens of the Lilas “.

The 1970er years was already overshadowed of serious illness. Brassens suffered from kidney cancer, became1980 operate and died 1981 in the proximity of its birth city. It rests itself on the cemetery „Le Py “, in relation to that, its life and work dedicated museum „Espace Brassens “in Sète, not far from the beach, like it it in the chanson „Supplique pour être enterré à lade Sète “(de troubles: „Request had wished, at the beach of Sète to be bestattet “). After its death that was designated Paris park in the proximity of its old dwelling, in which he had often be, in its honours as park Georges Brassens.

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like poetic texts Brassens carried meaning and style around the direct urgent effect of its lifenear its (before at the Piano prepared) chanson always only with simplest instrumenting pre of its acoustic guitar and the bass of its constant concert companion Pierre Nicolas.

Brassens appliesas one the large master of the literarily fastidious chanson in France. A singular mixture from the language of the classical French poetry constitutes the attraction of its chansons and (Argot). Beside own texts it toned also works of French poets of the most different epochs how François Villon, Louis Aragon, Victor Hugo, Lamartine, Paul Verlaine and Paul away. Brassens was one the most important and most influential Chansonniers 20. Century. - From the German singer-songwriter scene is it for instance Wolfgang Biermann, Franz Josef Degenhardt, Dieter Süverkrüp next.

Diskographie

• 1952 - 1955: La mauvaise réputation
• 1953 - 1954: Les amoureux bank publics
• 1953 - 1956: Chanson pour l'auvergnat.
• 1956 - 1957: For each ME suis fait tout petit
• 1958 - 1960:Le vieux Léon
• 1960 - 1961: La traîtresse
• 1961 - 1962: Les trompettes de la renommée
• 1964: Les copains d'abord
• 1966: Supplique pour être enterré à la troubles de Sète.
• 1969: Misogynie à part
• 1972: Fernande
• 1976: Trompela [

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• 1953: La route of the miracles
• 1954: La mauvaise Réputation
• 1968: Chanson

Web on the left of

• Eric http://eric.m.free.fr (ausführl. private Brassens site since 1999; fr)
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