Julie Burchill

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Julie Burchill (born July 3, 1959 in Bristol ) is an English writer and journalist . She began writing for the New Musical Express at the age of 17, and later works for newspapers such as the Sunday Times , the Spectator , The Independent and The Guardian . Her first novel, Ambition , published in 1989, was a bestseller in the UK. The 2004 novel Sugar Rush was made into a film for television.

Life

Burchill grew up in Brighton. Her father was a member of the British Communist Party and a trade unionist and worked at a distillery. The mother worked in a cardboard factory. Julie never finished her A-level graduation from school because she started working for the New Musical Express at 17 . She wrote mostly about punk rock , although she didn't like the music. The band Siouxsie and the Banshees accused them of anti-Semitism because of the line of text "Too many Jews for my liking".

At the age of 20, Burchill joined The Face and then the Sunday Times , for which she wrote about pop, fashion, films and society. In the 1980s she had a regular politics column in the Thatcher- friendly Mail on Sunday , but called in the paper to vote for the opposition party Labor . In 1989, her first novel, Ambition, appeared . In 1991 she co-founded the magazine The Modern Review, which was soon discontinued . From 1998 to 2004 she wrote a weekly column for the Guardian's weekend magazine , then became a writer for the Times . Her teenage novel Sugar Rush (2004) about lesbian girls was filmed for television. Burchill also wrote for television and made a documentary about her father's death asbestos, which was shown on the BBC in 2002 . In 2006 she left the paper and moved to Brighton with a plan to study theology.

After considering converting to Judaism for a long time, she has professed Christianity since 1999, and later stated that she wanted to become Jewish again. In 2010 Burchill became a writer for the Independent , but only stayed there for a year. Since then she has been working as a freelance journalist and writer.

Julie Burchill was married three times and had two sons who grew up with their fathers. She also lived in a shorter lesbian relationship. The younger son, Jack Landesmann, committed suicide in 2015.

Positions

Julie Burchill's partly contradicting comments and points of view, but also her relationships and her cocaine use, often attracted media attention. In 2005 the Independent called her "Britain's most controversial journalist". Burchill writes regularly about social injustice and discrimination against the English working class by conservative politicians and the media who use the derogatory word "chavs". In contrast to the left in England, however, she advocates US foreign policy (for example the Iraq war) and expresses solidarity with Israel.

Burchill sees herself as a militant feminist. In an interview with the Guardian, she said she understood it to mean having fun and realizing that women's human rights are more important than so-called cultural sensitivity. That is why she openly criticizes Islam because of the headscarf or the genital mutilation of girls.

Julie Burchill also describes herself as a philosopher and is a supporter of Israel. Since she was 25 years old, she claims to have been toying with the idea of ​​converting to Judaism. In 2009, the Jewish Chronicle reported that she went to the synagogue regularly and had started learning Hebrew. Her Jewish ex-husband Cosmo Landesmann criticized her book Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite , published in 2014 , for allegedly portraying Jews as particularly intelligent or extraordinary and thus serving anti-Semitic stereotypes.

Reviews

About The Guns of Susan Street (English. Ambition) read in the mirror that it was “the prototype of those books in which the new mix of sex, desk and career is reflected: Susan Street wants to be editor-in-chief of an English newspaper, and on on the way to the coveted armchair, she encounters all contemporary forms of office eroticism: boss desires career woman; Career woman loves son of boss; Boss's son hates love in the office; Office messenger wants career woman's assistant; Assistant is keen on the career woman - eroticism as a weapon for the ambitious. "

Julie Burchill in Culture

With their song The Boy Looked at Johnny , the English rock band The Libertines alluded to the book of the same name by Julie Burchill and Tony Parsons ( Boy Looked at Johnny ), which is often referred to as the Manifesto of Punk. The title of this book is a quote from the song Land by singer Patti Smith, published on her debut album Horses , Two plays were written and directed about Julie Burchill, Julie Burchill is away (2004) and Absolute Cult (2014).

Publications

English:

  • with Tony Parsons: The Boy Looked at Johnny. 1978.
  • Love It or Shove It. 1985.
  • Girls on Film. 1986.
  • Damaged Gods: Cults and Heroes Reappraised. 1987.
  • Ambition. 1989.
  • Sex and Sensibility. 1992.
  • No exit. 1993.
  • Married Alive. 1998.
  • I Knew I Was Right. 1998, autobiography
  • Diana. 1999.
  • The Guardian Columns 1998-2000. 2000.
  • On Beckham. 2002.
  • Sugar Rush. 2004.
  • Sweet. 2007.
  • Made in Brighton. together with Daniel Raven, 2007.
  • with Chas Newkey-Burden: Not in My Name: A compendium of modern hypocrisy. 2008.
  • Unchosen: The Memoirs of a Philo-Semite. 2014.

German:

  • Julie Burchill on Prince / Pop / Elvis / Communism / Madonna / Housewives / Annie Lennox / Feminism / Michael Jackson / USA / Sade / The Pill / Lennon / Soccer / Locusts and the like a. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1987, ISBN 3-462-01835-3 .
  • The Guns of Susan Street. Goldmann, Munich 1990.
  • The men of Maria V. Goldmann, 1993, ISBN 3-442-42253-1 .
  • Sex and Other Vices 1994, ISBN 3-442-42294-9 .
  • Damn it, I was right. An autobiography. 1999.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Inside author at The Guardian , accessed July 12, 2015.
  2. ↑ Inside the author at The Spectator , accessed on July 12, 2015.
  3. ↑ Inside the author at The Independent , accessed on July 12, 2015.
  4. ^ Jon Stratton Jewish Identity in Western Pop Culture: The Holocaust and Trauma Through Modernity , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, p. 200.
  5. ↑ "I have no Ambition left" , Guardian interview of August 4, 2008, accessed on July 12, 2015.
  6. ↑ Julie Burchill mourns son, Jack, who killed himself this week , Guardian article, July 1, 2015, accessed July 12, 2015.
  7. ↑ Julie Burchill: Me and my big mouth. Article in the Independent on February 21, 2005, accessed July 12, 2015
  8. ↑ 'I live the life of a provincial vegetable, then twice a week I get off my head on drugs' , article in The Scotsman, August 4, 2008, accessed July 12, 2015.
  9. ↑ 'I know we've had our spats' , Guardian interview, May 13, 2009, accessed July 12, 2015.
  10. ^ Julie Burchill joins Brighton shul , Jewish Chronicle article, June 18, 2009, accessed July 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ What Julie Burchill's ex-husband thinks of her new memoir , Spectator article, November 8, 204, accessed July 12, 2015.
  12. ↑ Greetings with internal mail , Spiegel article from November 18, 1991, accessed on July 13, 2015.
  13. ↑ Burchill back in spotlight as play shows she remains a Cult figure , Herald Scotland article, August 8, 2014, accessed July 13, 2015.
  14. ↑ Julie Burchill: Absolute Cult Edinburgh 2014 review - on the sofa and on the skids , Guardian article August 15, 2014, accessed July 13, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Burchill, Julie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol