Dymenzstein was born in Montreuil1 outside Paris. At age 2 the family moved to Jerusalem where the child went to a French Catholic school with children of diplomats.
At age 11 they moved back to Paris and Dymenzstein received ballet training at the Paris Opera2. This was followed by twelve years as a classical dancer, including with Maurice B3 4jart5 and at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus6 in Hamburg.
At age 23 Dymenzstein picked a country at random and went to Japan, was influenced by Kabuki and Noh theatre, and realised that he wanted to play female roles. Dymenzstein was back in Paris for the 1968 riots and found work in the Alcazar7 cabaret (which included Marie France8 Garcia9 and Amanda Lear10). This required playing many roles during each performance.
She moved to Berlin to start transition into Solange for she had heard that natural hormones were available, and being of Jewish descent was intrigued to see the city that been the Nazi capital. However she found Berliners to be quite friendly. Like Romy Haag11, she opened a nightclub.
She took the show-biz name Zazie de Paris (a combination of Zsa Zsa Gabor12 and Zizi Jeanmaire13). The club attracted the likes of David Bowie and became a centre for punks, but she found it too much work and left after a year. She was a friend of Jayne County.
In the 1980s Zazie started working in theatre with noted directors J r me Savary14 and Peter Zadek15.
She acted in minor films from 1982 onwards, but her breakthrough was with Werner Schroeter16‘s film Deux17 (Two) in 1980 where she played a character called Zazie.
Solange completed her gender affirmation. Later she was in the euthanasia-clinic comedy Kill Me Please18, 2010 and Mario Fanfani19‘s Les nuits d’ t 20, 2015. Usually she was denied cis female parts, but she has recently been working in the Tatort21 cop series on German television where she plays the best friend of a police Commissioner.
Solange now considers herself a Berliner, and has said that she will probably never leave.
References
- ^ Montreuil (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Paris Opera (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Maurice B (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ jart (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Deutsches Schauspielhaus (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Alcazar (fr.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Marie France (zagria.blogspot.ca)
- ^ Garcia (zagria.blogspot.ca)
- ^ Amanda Lear (zagria.blogspot.com)
- ^ Romy Haag (zagria.blogspot.com)
- ^ Zsa Zsa Gabor (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Zizi Jeanmaire (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ J r me Savary (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Peter Zadek (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Werner Schroeter (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Deux (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Kill Me Please (fr.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Mario Fanfani (www.imdb.com)
- ^ Les nuits d’ t (fr.wikipedia.org)
- ^ Tatort (en.wikipedia.org)
- ^ E.Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org)
- ^ IMDB (www.imdb.com)
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