About Jean Gillibert
Lived 1925 – 2014 (aged 89). Jean Gillibert was a French playwright, poet, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, theatre director and translator.
Jean Gillibert (1925 – 31 October 2014) was a French psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, poet, translator, playwright and theatre director.
Short biography Gillibert graduated from the Paris conservatory in 1945. In 1947, he attended a lecture by Antonin Artaud at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, which had a decisive influence on his career, under the sign of the exploration of madness and theater. A part of his career was devoted to psychoanalysis.
Gillibert died on 31 October 2014 in his home in Bourg-la-Reine.
Filmography 1962: The Trial of Joan of Arc by Robert Bresson 1963: by René Allio 1983: Le Général a disparu by Yves-André Hubert 1985: by Pierre Beuchot
Theatre Actor 1950: Adam exilé written and directed by Johan de Meester, Théâtre Hébertot 1950: Lucifer written and directed by Johan de Meester, Théâtre Hébertot 1959: Tête d'or written by Paul Claudel, directed by Jean-Louis Barrault, Odéon-Théâtre de France 1962: The Idiot written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, directed by Jean Gillibert, Théâtre Récamier 1967: Phèdre by Racine, directed by Jean Gillibert, 1971: A Midsummer Night's Dream written by William Shakespeare, directed by Jean Gillibert, Chateauvallon 1971: Les Ombres sur la mer written by William Butler Yeats, directed by Jean Gillibert, Chateauvallon 1971: L'Entrée dans la baie et la prise de la ville de Rio de Janeiro en 1711 written by Jean Ristat, directed by Jean Gillibert, Chateauvallon
Director
1956: Medea by Euripides, Théâtre de l'Alliance française 1957: Athalie by Racine, Théâtre Récamier 1958: Horace by Corneille, Théâtre de l'Alliance française 1962: The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Théâtre Récamier 1962: Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, Théâtre Récamier 1964: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Festival du Marais Hôtel de Béthune-Sully 1964: Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles, Théâtre Récamier 1965: Phèdre by Racine, Théâtre Récamier, 1967: Châteauvallon, 1968: Festival de Nancy 1967: The Persians by Aeschylus, Châteauvallon 1967: La Sonate des spectres by August Strindberg, Théâtre de l'Alliance française 1968: L'Échange by Paul Claudel, Châteauvallon 1969: Les Cenci by Antonin Artaud, Châteauvallon 1969: Le Gardien du tombeau after Franz Kafka, Rencontres de Châteauvallon 1970: The Misanthrope by Molière, Châteauvallon 1970: Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Châteauvallon 1971: The Misanthrope by Molière, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1971: A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, Chateauvallon 1971: Les Ombres sur la mer by William Butler Yeats, Chateauvallon 1971: L'Entrée dans la baie et la prise de la ville de Rio de Janeiro en 1711 by Jean Ristat, Chateauvallon 1972: La Celestina by Fernando de Rojas, Châteauvallon, Théâtre de l'Ouest parisien Boulogne-Billancourt 1973: Penthesilea by Heinrich von Kleist, Châteauvallon 1974: Bajazet by Racine, Petit Odéon 1976: The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, Festival du Marais Théâtre Essaïon 1978: Oresteia by Aeschylus, Châteauvallon 1979: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Théâtre Marie Stuart 1980: Phèdre by Racine, Festival de Sarlat 1980: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1980: Président Schreber : Fragments de délire by Jean Gillibert, after Freud and Daniel Paul Schreber, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1980: The Dance of Death by August Strindberg, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1981: Le Personnage combattant by Jean Vauthier, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1981: Phèdre by Racine 1981: Les Quatre Petites Filles by Picasso, Centre Georges Pompidou 1981: Medea by Euripides, Festival d'Avignon Comédie-Française 1981: Lectures autour de Médée after Sigmund Freud, artistic director Jean Gillibert, Comédie-Française Festival d'Avignon 1981: L'Âne by Victor Hugo, Festival d'Avignon 1981: Lectures autour de Médée by Sigmund Freud 1981: Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Théâtre de la Huchette 1982: Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, 1983: Le ciel est par-dessus le toit by Louis Gay, Festival d'Avignon off 1984: Le Babil des classes dangereuses by Valère Novarina, Théâtre de la Criée 1984: La Petite Apocalypse by Tadeusz Konwicki, Enghien-les-Bains 1985: Le borgne est roi by Carlos Fuentes, Théâtre Marie Stuart 1986: Vautrin after Honoré de Balzac, directed with Jean-Claude Penchenat, Théâtre du Campagnol Châtenay-Malabry 1987: Fait-divers by Frédérique Ruchaud, Théâtre national de Chaillot 1987: Baba-Puzzle by Claude Morand 1988: King Lear by William Shakespeare, Maison de la Culture de Bourges, Théâtre du Lierre 1980: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, lecture Festival d'Avignon 1988: Lieutenant Gustl by Arthur Schnitzler, Théâtre du Lavoir Pontarlier 1989: Death in Venice after Thomas Mann 1989: Psychomachies by Jean Gillibert, Théâtre de la Cité internationale 1990: Mithridate by Racine 1990: Rahab by 1990: Entre rêve et réalité after Luigi Pirandello, Fernando Pessoa, Antonio Tabucchi, Théâtre Denis Hyères 1990: Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher by Paul Claudel, Festival de Saint-Céré 1991: Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1992: W comme Gombrowicz by Claude Bernhardt 1992: by Pierre Jean Jouve 1992: Oreste by Vittorio Alfieri, Maison des arts et de la culture de Créteil 1993: Lili de Liliane Rovère 1994: Les Cheveux d'Absalon by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, lecture 1997: Le Rêve d'un homme ridicule by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1998: The Brothers Karamazov after Dostoyevsky, Lavoir Moderne Parisien 1999: Le Mort-Homme by Jean Gillibert, Lavoir Moderne Parisien 1999: Athalie by Jean Racine, Granges de Port-Royal 2000: Les Barbares (trilogy Les Retranchés, Nécropolis, La Truite des anges) by Jean Gillibert, Lavoir Moderne Parisien 2001: Les Vagants by Jean Gillibert 2001: Medea after Euripides, Seneca the Younger, Pierre Corneille 2002: White Nights after Dostoyevsky 2002: Nuits chauves by Jean Gillibert 2003: L'Apprenti after Raymond Guérin 2003: La Mort d'Anna Karénine after Raymond Guérin after Leo Tolstoy
Translations Medea by Euripides Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles King Lear by Shakespeare
Books L'Œdipe maniaque : 4 volumes éditions Payot : 1978: L'Œdipe maniaque 1978: Une Quête phallique 1979: Le Moi soulagé 1979: L'Image réconciliée 1983: Les Illusiades, essai sur le théâtre de l'acteur, Clancier Guénaud 1985: Le Psychodrame de la psychanalyse, Champ Vallon 1985, 1987: Ça n'est plus ça: Notes cliniques et métapsychologiques sur l'autre théâtre de L'Étre, Césura, Lyon 1990: Folie et création, Champ Vallon, 1991: L'acteur en creation, Presses Universitaires Mirail-Toulouse 1992: Mœurs de nuit : Versets hérétiques, Presses Universitaires Mirail-Toulouse, 1993: Dialogue avec les schizophrénies, collection "Fait psychanalytique", Presses universitaires de France 1994: Mes Référendes, L'Harmattan 1995: Conversions – Trois études de Métapsychanalyse : de Dieu, du Monde, de l'Homme, Calamnn-Lévy 1997: Plus béant que le temps, L'Harmattan (poetry) 2000: L'Esprit du théâtre, Éditions Phébus 2002: Nuits chauves. Légende d'un couple, Les éditions de l'Ambedui 2003: Phèdre et l'inconscient poétique, L'Harmattan 2004: Humeur, passion, pulsions : depuis que j'écoute..., L'Harmattan 2004: Jean sans terre, Phébus, 2011: About Jean Gillibert 2004: Jean Gillibert ou l'autre théâtre, Marc-Olivier Sephiha & Jean Gillibert, Phébus 2004 (interviews) 2004: Présence de Jean Gillibert, Michèle Venard
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French playwright, poet and psychiatrist (1925-2014)
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Jean Gillibert was born on 14 January 1925 in 13th arrondissement of Paris.
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