Artaud, Antonin

Antonin Artaud
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Antonin Artaud

Name	Artaud, Antonin Gender: M
Birthname	Artaud, Antoine Marie Joseph
born on	4 September 1896 at 08:00 (= 08:00 AM )
Place	Marseille, France, 43n18, 5e24
Timezone	LST m2e20 (is standard time)
Data source	BC/BR in hand Rodden Rating AA Collector: Steinbrecher
Astrology data	12°14' 28°41 Asc. 13°08'

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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.

Link to Wikipedia biography

Relationships

• other hierarchical relationship with Allendy, René (born 19 February 1889). Notes: Allendy was Artaud's psychoanalyst

Events

• Health : Acute illness 1902 (Nearly died from meningitis)

• Mental Health : Manic episode 1937 (Mental breakdown)

• Social : Institutionalized - prison, hospital 1937 (Institutionalized)

• Social : Deinstitutionalized - prison, hospital 1946 (Released from insane asylum)

• Death, Cause unspecified 4 March 1948 (Age 51)
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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 Antonin Artaud (1968) gives 8:00 AM.

Categories

• Diagnoses : Major Diseases : Other Major diseases (Severe meningitis, age five)

• Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Headaches, severe

• Diagnoses : Body Part Problems : Other body problems (Neurological pain)

• Diagnoses : Psychological : Abuse Drugs

• Diagnoses : Psychological : Institutionalized (Nine years in asylums)

• Diagnoses : Psychological : Mental Illness

• Lifestyle : Work : Start young less than 16 (Founded a magazine at 14)

• Vocation : Writers : Playwright/ script

• Vocation : Writers : Poet

• Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection