Georges Brassens
Komponist, Skuespiller
22. oktober 1921 — 29. oktober 1981 (60 år)
Georges Charles Brassens (22 October 1921 – 29 October 1981) was a French singer-songwriter and poet.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes).
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' sick leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded.
In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française.
Apart from Paris and Sète, he lived in Crespières (near Paris) and in Lézardrieux (Brittany).
Brassens was born in Sète, a commune in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region, to a French father and an Italian mother from the town of Marsico Nuovo (in the province of Potenza, Basilicata). ...
Source: Article "Georges Brassens" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
As an iconic figure in France, he achieved fame through his elegant songs with their harmonically complex music for voice and guitar and articulate, diverse lyrics. He is considered one of France's most accomplished postwar poets. He has also set to music poems by both well-known and relatively obscure poets, including Louis Aragon (Il n'y a pas d'amour heureux), Victor Hugo (La Légende de la Nonne, Gastibelza), Paul Verlaine, Jean Richepin, François Villon (La Ballade des Dames du Temps Jadis), and Antoine Pol (Les Passantes).
During World War II, he was forced by the Germans to work in a labor camp at a BMW aircraft engine plant in Basdorf near Berlin in Germany (March 1943). Here Brassens met some of his future friends, such as Pierre Onténiente, whom he called Gibraltar because he was "steady as a rock." They would later become close friends.
After being given ten days' sick leave in France, he decided not to return to the labor camp. Brassens took refuge in a small cul-de-sac called "Impasse Florimont," in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, a popular district, where he lived for several years with its owner, Jeanne Planche, a friend of his aunt. Planche lived with her husband Marcel in relative poverty: without gas, running water, or electricity. Brassens remained hidden there until the end of the war five months later, but ended up staying for 22 years. Planche was the inspiration for Brassens's song Jeanne.
He wrote and sang, with his guitar, more than a hundred of his poems. Between 1952 and 1976, he recorded fourteen albums that include several popular French songs such as Les copains d'abord, Chanson pour l'Auvergnat, La mauvaise réputation, and Mourir pour des idées. Most of his texts are tinged with black humour and are often anarchist-minded.
In 1967, he received the Grand Prix de Poésie of the Académie française.
Apart from Paris and Sète, he lived in Crespières (near Paris) and in Lézardrieux (Brittany).
Brassens was born in Sète, a commune in the Hérault department of the Occitanie region, to a French father and an Italian mother from the town of Marsico Nuovo (in the province of Potenza, Basilicata). ...
Source: Article "Georges Brassens" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmografi
| 1971 | The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow · as Composer |
| 1969 | Kameleonterna · as Composer |
| 1960 | |
| 1957 |
| 1980 | Émilie jolie · as Le Hérisson |
| 1957 | The Gates of Paris · as The Artist |
| 2022 | La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2021 | Une journée avec Brassens · as Self - Subject |
| 2021 | Charles Trenet, l'enchanteur · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Brassens par Brassens · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2020 | Boris Vian, un coeur qui battait trop fort · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | #Merci Brassens · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2017 | Jacques Brel, fou de vivre · as Self |
| 2014 | Cavanna, jusqu'à l'ultime seconde, j'écrirai · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2012 | Il est minuit, Paris s'éveille · as Self |
| 2011 | Brassens, la mauvaise réputation · as Self |
| 2011 | Le regard de Georges Brassens · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 2009 | The Hidden Side of the Bottom · as Self |
| 2005 | Françoise Hardy - Tant de belles choses · as Self |
| 1982 | Champs-Elysees · as Self (archive Footage) |
| 1975 | Number One · as Self |
| 1975 | Système 2 · as Self |
| 1975 | Sunday meetings · as Self |
| 1975 | Apostrophes · as Self |
| 1972 | Midi Trente · as Self |
| 1972 | Top to ... · as Self |
| 1971 | Cadet Rousselle · as Self |
| 1959 | Télé-Dimanche · as Self |