Bernard-Marie Koltès

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1948-04-09 (41 years old)

Deathday

1989-04-15

Place of Birth

Metz, Moselle, France

Bernard-Marie Koltès

Biography

Bernard-Marie Koltès (9 April 1948 – 15 April 1989) was a French playwright and theatre director best known for his plays La Nuit juste avant les Forêts (The Night Just Before the Forests, 1976), Sallinger (1977) and Dans la Solitude des Champs de Coton (In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, 1986). A close friend and collaborator with the avant-garde director Patrice Chéreau, the two created groundbreaking work together at both the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club in New York City and the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. At the time of his death, Koltès was considered to be one of the most important young voices in French theatre, and heir a...

Acting

2021

Hervé Guibert, la mort propagande

as Self (archive footage)

1983

The Wounded Man

as Boy at the Train Station

Production

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The Fence

as Theatre Play

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