Clairin Georges, Sarah Bernhardt, 1876
Today the birthday of Sarah Bernhardt (October 22, 1844 - March 26, 1923). who in their time leading actress in the world allowed her family at 14 years acting training at the Comédie-Française - an absolute privilege.
After many trials and tribulations of their life cycle they became after the war of 1870/71 a star. From today's perspective it is considered one of the first world star übehaupt. For she was worshiped in Europe and America alike. They lived the life of a femme fatale, a female dandy: It was considered eccentric, moody and often unpredictable. She had numerous lovers, absolutely what the time was taboo. One of them Charles Haas, a well-known dandy of his time, in whose person were associated spirit, wit and idleness. Marcel Proust Haas set with the character Charles Swann in In Search of Lost Time a literary monument. Other lovers were the actor Mounet-Sully and the painter and illustrator Gustave Doré.
Bernhardt had understood early on the mechanisms of the media company and knew how to use them. It created a public image called eccentricities: She got into a hot air balloon in the skies over Paris. They would sell photos on which is to see how it lies in a coffin and studied their roles or sleeping. In her apartment, she hosted domestic and exotic animals.
Sarah Bernhardt's name with that of Oscar Wilde inextricably bound. After the drama Salomé that Wilde had written in 1891 and inspired banned by two chapters from Joris-Karl Huysmans Dandy Bible À Rebours ( Against the Grain ), in England, gave Bernhardt, the book out in France in 1894. In 1896 she played in Paris the main role in the premiere.
Sarah Bernhardt launched in her hometown of Paris, several theaters, where she also themselves, among other the Théatre des Nations , they renamed the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt .
1906 she received a professorship at the Paris Conservatoire, 1914, Sarah Bernhardt, a member of the French Legion of Honor.
Sarah Bernhardt died on 26 March 1923 in Paris. Their last resting place found in the cemetery Père Lachaise in eastern Paris. - In the vicinity of Marcel Proust, Oscar Wilde, Eugene Delacriox and many other great Frenchman and artists.
Sarah Bernhardt, portrait by Nadar, c. 1860
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