Artaud, Antinon
From Astro-Databank
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| Birthname | Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph | ||
| born on | 4 September 1896 at 07:51 (= 07:51 AM ) | ||
| Place | Marseilles, France, 43n18, 5e24 | ||
| Timezone | GMT h0w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   12°14'   28°41 Asc. 13°12'
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Biography
French writer and theoretician, a poet and playwright whose ideals were Baudelaire and Poe. At 14 he founded a little magazine with friends. As an adult, he founded the Theatre of Life/Theater of Cruelty. Artaud was plagued by physical and mental hardships throughout his life. He nearly died from meningitis at the age of five and suffered the rest of his life with severe headaches and neurological pains, becoming addicted to drugs. He suffered a mental breakdown and was hospitalized in 1937. Confined most of the remainder of his life to asylums, he gained his final release in 1946, two years before his death on 3/04/1948.
Events
- Death, Cause unspecified 4 March 1948 (Age 51)
- Health : Acute illness 1902 (Nearly died from meningitis)
- Mental Health : Manic episode 1937 (Mental breakdown)
- Social : Deinstitutionalized - prison, hospital 1946 (Released from insane asylum)
- Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 1937 (Institutionalized)
Source Notes
B.C. in hand from Steinbrecher. (8:00 AM Paris time) (Gauquelin Vol 6/37 gives 8:30 AM; Michel Gauquelin confirms 8:00 AM by letter 1/85)
Biography: Eric Sellin "The Dramatic Concepts of Antinon Artaud (1968) gives 8:00 AM.
Categories
- Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script
- Vocation : Writers : Poet
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Headaches, severe
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Abuse Drugs
- Lifestyle : Work : Start young less than 16 (Founded a magazine at 14)
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Mental Illness
- Diagnoses : Psychological : Institutionalized (Nine years in asylums)
- Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (Severe meningitis, age five)
- Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Other body problems (Neurological pain)
