Gérard Philipe

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Gérard Philipe briefly but repeatedly, mostly for his link with Kleist's The Prince of Homburg. Several times between 2016 and 2023, he recalls that the actor made the play a success at the TNP after the war and "immortalised" it12. The reference comes back when he discusses Kleist, notably during a reading of "On the Marionette Theatre", where he calls Gérard Philipe the greatest actor of the post-war period3. It also comes back in sessions devoted to Hegel, to Mignon, or to the relation between crisis and war. He also cites his performance in Büchner's Danton's Death, in a session on the logic of the subject facing the reconstitution of Nazism4. In a 2024 session, he steps outside the theatre and recommends his narration of Peter and the Wolf5. Gérard Philipe thus appears less as an object of analysis than as the figure who, for him, embodies German Romantic theatre on stage.

1. 1Hegel Plage 1/51 Feb 2016 · 1:45:02
2. 2#1 Mignon ou le chant du silence7 Apr 2021 · 19:48
3. 3Kleist « Sur le théâtre de marionnettes » - Pagani - Lectures sur le vif29 Sept 2023 · 5:46
4. 4#6.6 • La Logique du Sujet face à la reconstitution du nazisme29 Mar 2020 · 1:38:09
5. 5Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 2:20:12

Summary produced automatically from 6 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.