Jean Vautrin
Jean Vautrin , actually Jean Herman , (born May 17, 1933 in Pagny-sur-Moselle , Lorraine ; † June 16, 2015 in Gradignan , Aquitaine ) was a French author and a director and screenwriter known by his real name.
life and work
Jean Vautrin was born in Pagny-sur-Moselle in the department of Meurthe-et-Moselle . After unfinishing his studies, he taught French literature at the University of Mumbai for two years . In India he worked as assistant director in Roberto Rossellini's film India, Mother Earth in 1957 . Back in France, he took over the director's chair for a number of movies, including the thriller At Bullen, Friends Don't "Sing" with Alain Delon and Charles Bronson in the lead roles. He provided the scripts for films by directors such as Gilles Béhat , Georges Lautner and Yves Boisset , and for the von Garde à vue he was awarded the César in 1982 together with Claude Miller and Michel Audiard .
From the 1970s he started writing novels. Of it was Bloody Mary in 1980 with the Prix Mystère de la critique and Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu in 1989 with the Prix Goncourt and the lycéens Prix Goncourt of excellent.
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1968: Friends don't "sing" with cops (Adieu l'ami)
- 1971: Popsy Pop
- 1974: The great detectives (Les grands détectives)
- 1974: Count Yoster does the honors (2 episodes)
script
- 1976: The big show-off (Le grand escogriffe)
- 1980: The Puppeteer (Le Guignolo)
- 1981: The interrogation (Garde à vue)
- 1983: The Outsider (Le Marginal)
- 1984: Dog Day - A man runs for his life (Canicule)
Novels (selection)
- 1974: Billy-ze-Kick (German: Billy-ze-Kick , 1987)
- 1979: Bloody Mary (Eng .: Bloody Mary , 1988) (adapted as a comic from Jean Teulé )
- 1980: Groom (German: Groom , 1995)
- 1982: Canicule (filmed as Dog Day - A man runs for his life , adapted as a comic by Baru and published in German under the title Bleierne Wärme )
- 1989: Un grand pas vers le Bon Dieu (German: The heart plays the blues , 1993)
- 1998: Le cri du peuple ISBN 978-2253150077 ( adapted as a comic by Jacques Tardi in four volumes and also published as Die Macht des Volkes in German in four volumes)
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Vautrin in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jean Vautrin in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jean-Vautrin in crime writers AZ forgot and spurned, botched and underestimated
Individual evidence
- ^ Jean Vautrin est mort: le romancier, prix Goncourt 1989, est décédé à l'âge de 82 ans. In: huffingtonpost.fr. The Huffington Post , June 16, 2015, accessed June 18, 2015 (French).
- ↑ Biography of Jean Vautrin in Premiere (French)
- ^ César: List of the winners
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vautrin, Jean |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Herman, Jean (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pagny-sur-Moselle , Lorraine , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 2015 |
| Place of death | Gradignan , Aquitaine , France |