Mononymous person town of Stendal, birthplace of the German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann, whom Stendhal admired. In the 20th century, a fourth French writer, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (author of "Gigi", 1945), used her actual surname as her mononym pen name, Colette. Some French actors and singers have used their given name or surname as a stage mononym. In the 17th and 18th centuries, most Italian castrato singers used mononyms as stage names (e.g. Caffarelli, Farinelli). The German writer, mining engineer and philosopher, Georg Friedrich Philipp Freiherr von Hardenberg (1772–1801), became famous as Novalis. The 19th-century Dutch writer Eduard Douwes Dekker (1820–87), better
Gabrielle Demeestere Gabrielle Demeestere Gabrielle Demeestere is a French filmmaker based in New York City. Demeestere attended New York University's MFA Film Program. While there she collaborated with James Franco and eleven other student filmmakers to co-direct "The Color of Time", a film on the life of poet C.K. Williams that starred Franco, Mila Kunis and Jessica Chastain. The film premiered at the 2012 Rome Film Festival. After working with Franco on "The Color of Time" he approached her about adapting two of his short stories from his collection "A California Childhood". Demeestere adapted them into her thesis film "Yosemite" which premiered