Louis-Ferdinand Celine

Louis-Ferdinand Celine (1932)

Louis-Ferdinand Celine  [ selin ] (actually Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches ; born May 27, 1894 in Courbevoie , Département Seine , † July 1, 1961 in Meudon ) was a French writer and doctor of medicine . He became known in 1932 for the novel Journey to the End of the Night . He is politically burdened by his anti-Semitism and his collaboration .

biography

youth

Louis-Ferdinand Céline grew up as the son of a knickknack dealer and an accountant in Paris as an only child; his childhood was marked by financial hardship and the unhappy marriage of his parents. During his school days, he completed two language trips to Germany and England. He attended the elementary school in Diepholz and the University College in Rochester . After leaving grammar school and failed three attempts to train as a commercial assistant, he moved in with his uncle and began military service in 1912. He was assigned to the 12th Cuirassier Regiment in Rambouillet .

As a volunteer, he took part in the First World War and was seriously wounded in the head and shoulder in the fall of 1914 in a breakneck report in the Battle of Flanders in Poelkapelle ( West Flanders ). Shortly afterwards he was awarded the Médaille militaire . While he was hailed as a modern hero in numerous newspaper articles, a military doctor declared him unfit for duty due to his wound, which partially paralyzed his arm and which was followed by fear psychosis.

Celine took up a position at the French embassy in London , where he mainly interacted with dancers and prostitutes. In 1916 he traveled to Cameroon . Back in France, he worked for a short time as Henry de Graffigny's assistant at Euréka magazine . He then went on lecture tours on tuberculosis on behalf of the Rockefeller Foundation .

In Rennes , on September 19, 1919, he married the daughter of the director of the local medical school, Edith Follet , an illustrator. Nine months later, on June 15th, his daughter Colette was born.

Activity as a doctor

In 1918, Celine began studying medicine at the University of Rennes. A year later he graduated from the Baccalauréat . Since his plan to become a surgeon could not be realized due to the war damage, Celine specialized in epidemic medicine . In 1924 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on Semmelweis , which from today's perspective looks more like an idiosyncratic novel than a scientific work. But since he still enjoyed public prestige from his time as a war hero and his skill in dealing with patients was undeniable, he was awarded a doctorate and a license to practice medicine. In 1936 his dissertation was published as a literary work with minor changes.

He left his wife and daughter (the wife filed for divorce in 1926) to work for the League of Nations as a secretary at the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology . He specialized in Paris and Liverpool before traveling to the United States in 1926 . There he worked as a doctor in the industrial districts of Detroit and for the automobile manufacturer Ford, dealing with questions of hygiene. Further orders from the League of Nations Disease Research Center took Celine to Africa, Canada and Cuba . Its task consisted in the preparation of reports on local disease risks. The last of these missions for the League of Nations was a trip to the Rhineland in the spring of 1936, where he examined the health effects of mass unemployment on the sub-proletarian population.

In 1928, Celine took over the management of the Infectious Diseases Department at the Clichy State Hospital . In 1936 he resigned and from then on - with the exception of an interlude as a ship's doctor in 1939 - worked privately as a general practitioner until his death .

Literary career

Celine began to write during the First World War, and at first couldn't get beyond simple diaries and poems. In the mid-twenties he began to work on ballet manuscripts, according to his own statement, in order to impress the dancers, who remained his great passion throughout his life. The stage play Die Kirche was created in 1928 and remained unpublished until 1933. It is a cynical reckoning with colonialism and the “talk of human rights” (Céline).

From 1928 to 1932 Céline worked on the novel Reise zum Ende der Nacht , which suddenly made him famous after its publication, launched by Léon Daudet . The work radically broke with the academic French literary tradition and combined a lyrical rhetoric of desperation with realistic depictions of the war misery and a relentless sexual cynicism. It was received enthusiastically, especially by the French left , and polarized criticism: Celine temporarily dismantled his mailbox and instructed the postman to throw away the many letters of abuse and admiration. Celine was awarded the Prix ​​Renaudot , but not the Prix ​​Goncourt he had hoped for ; this fact was repeatedly highlighted by him as a hurtful affront until his death and contributed to his alienation from the intellectual establishment of the Third Republic .

In 1936 Reise zum Ende der Nacht was translated into Russian by Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet . In the same year his second novel Death on Credit, set in the precarious world of the Parisian petty bourgeoisie, was published . In this novel, Celine's narrative drasticness, which many left-wing readers of Voyage had understood as realistically descriptive social criticism , was already recognizably transformed into an open misanthropy that was no longer interested in social relationships and conditions . The book was received much cooler than the previous one; So Celine decided to “get down to business” politically, as he later wrote in a letter to the editor, and traveled to the Soviet Union for two months . There he was received, perhaps only because of a few organizational misunderstandings, without the pomp that had been shown to André Gide . Celine then published the pamphlet Mea culpa (1936), in which he sharply criticized the Soviet Union, communism and "the Jews" who, in his words, supported the Soviet system. The German edition contained Celine's dissertation as an addition.

In 1937 the text Bagatelles pour un massacre appeared , which polemicized with spectacular hatred against Judaism and appeared in Germany in 1938 under the title The Jewish Conspiracy in France (though greatly abridged). As “Jewish”, Celine attacked everything and everyone - including the Pope , Racine , Stendhal and Picasso . André Gide therefore initially saw the script as a satire in the style of Swift , a literary critic assumed that it was Celine's intention to make anti-Semitism ridiculous by increasing it into the openly absurd. Celine reacted to such “misunderstandings” with growing anger; his pamphlet L'École des cadavres (1938) is deliberately designed with the intention of crossing all conceivable limits of good taste, political reason, and elementary humanity. In 2019 a new edition of the German version was published by Verlag der Schelm , Leipzig. According to the French publisher Gallimard , the publication is illegal.

anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic elements can be detected in all of his texts; however, the hatred of Judaism increased around 1937 in such a way that some researchers speak of a downright psychosis. He subordinated this idée fixe to all other political ideas. From 1937 onwards, Celine openly declared his sympathy for Hitler , arguing that he would rather be "shot by a German than stupid by a Jew". During the German occupation of France , Celine was less propagandist than other French authors sympathizing with fascism - such as Pierre Drieu la Rochelle , Robert Brasillach or Alfred Fabre-Luce . This was certainly due to the fact that key representatives of the occupying power were skeptical of his writings because of the constant profanity and the “wild street French”. Around 35 Celine requests to speak in the collaboration press - mostly encouraging letters to the editor and excerpts from older writings - have so far been found. In 1946 he pointed out that he had never written an article of his own or had appeared on the radio. An interview that was printed in the magazine L'Émancipation nationale in November 1941 and in which he praised Jacques Doriot and the LVF was just as inauthentic as the Lettre à Doriot published in March 1942 by the same paper . In April 1942, Celine signed a manifesto des intellectuels français contre les crimes anglais .

At the beginning of 1941, the pamphletist font Les beaux draps (German: a beautiful gift ) was published. The book, in which the author's anti-Semitism is emphasized less aggressively than, for example, in the Bagatelles , is devoted to a more or less serious criticism of French pre-war society, the logical legacy of which is described as the military collapse of 1940, and reflections on a social and political one "Renovation". In this context, Celine rejected the course of the Vichy regime as too timid. The font, which has been celebrated by Brasillach's magazine Je suis partout , among others, shines with surprising jokes; In this text, Céline presents the shadow cabinet of a future world government, in which Santa Claus presides and prophesies Céline's arrest after the lost war (which actually took place) with the words: “You will be booed like a ball going out go, and then pick up angrily. "

Instead of public anti-Semitic propaganda , Celine now sought a conversation with the German occupiers, including the German ambassador in Paris, Otto Abetz , but also with Hans Carossa , Ernst Jünger and Karl Heinrich Waggerl . Ernst Jünger writes in his diary and in scattered letters that Celine had asked him privately to slaughter Jews with his company and “leave none behind”.

After the publication of 4,000 letters from Celine in 2009, it became clear that Celine's anti-Semitism was much rougher and at the same time more deeply rooted than previously sometimes assumed. Interpretations like the Gides, such passages were meant surrealist, are obsolete. He meant his call for the murder of Jews literally, summarizes Gero von Randow in ZEIT . Some of the trips that Céline undertook during the war are still waiting to be clarified: In 2004 a photo appeared showing him again in the company of Nazi sympathizers. According to the explanation of the picture, Celine belonged to a group of French intellectuals and artists who traveled to Germany as a guest of the Nazi government. He visited the sculptor Arno Breker , who later created his bronze bust, in his studios in Berlin and Wriezen . In 1943 Céline and René d'Ückermann were guests at Breker's Jäckelsbruch manor .

In the spring of 1943, representatives of the German occupation authorities invited Celine to visit the mass graves with the bodies of thousands of Polish officers in a forest not far from the Soviet village of Katyn with an international delegation of writers . The writers' reports were supposed to be part of a propaganda campaign against the Soviet war opponent, which Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels had ordered. But Celine did not accept this invitation.

In January 1944, Celine received a wooden coffin the size of a shoebox in the mail, and an assassination attempt by the Resistance narrowly failed. He initially fled to Denmark, but returned after three months. Shortly afterwards, he was forcibly relocated to Germany by German authorities, first to Baden-Baden , then to Sigmaringen Castle , where the Vichy regime had fled. When Pierre Laval - probably out of spite - offered him the office of minister for Jewish affairs, Celine himself insulted him as a "Jew" against third parties. Celine described his experiences in Sigmaringen at the end of the war in the 1957 novel D'un château l'autre (From one castle to another). This time ended for him with internment in Kränzlin near Neuruppin .

Escape through Germany in 1944/1945

At the end of October 1944, Celine reached Sigmaringen, where several thousand Vichy supporters had been waiting for the end of the war since the beginning of September. Celine came from Berlin and made a short stop in Baden-Baden. The exact circumstances of this "submergence" can no longer be reconstructed with absolute certainty, says Hewitt. In his postwar novels (u. A. In "North") the writer Céline distorted this undoubtedly chaotic action into a grotesque clowning, but current research suggests that the doctor Destouches has seriously tried as "Baltic doctor" for the army to intervene and in this way to obtain refugee papers. There is evidence of Celine's return to Berlin by the SD , where he left an ordered refugee transport without a permit. Continued attempts by the doctor Destouches to work as a troop doctor for the Wehrmacht finally caused the former German ambassador in Paris, Abetz, to have Céline classified as mentally disturbed by the investigating SS authorities. Celine then traveled back and forth several times between Berlin and Hamburg, armed with numerous food cards illegally acquired with the help of Abetz, in the hope of being able to join a Red Cross transport to Sweden. Given the close surveillance by the SD, this hope turned out to be false.

Post-war existence and death

At the end of April 1945, Céline fled to Denmark with his wife and was interned there. He was charged with crimes against humanity and aiding and abetting murder and was imprisoned while his wife was released a month later. From 1947 onwards, Celine lived under surveillance in a farmhouse in Klarskovgard near Korsør . His imprisonment was lifted in 1949. In absentia he was sentenced to death and loss of property in France for collaboration, but was pardoned in 1950. In 1951 he returned to France and spent the first months in Provence . Since his Paris apartment had been ransacked by members of the Resistance, he dared to start over in Meudon .

Grave of Louis-Ferdinand Celine in the Haut-Meudon cemetery

Slowly, Céline's literary career started again, Gallimard published his novels Féerie pour une autre fois and Normance as well as the spectacular and cynical interview novel Entretiens avec Prof. Y and finally the trilogy about the end of the war, of which the first two volumes were still printed during his lifetime , D'un château l'autre and Nord (the third, Rigodon , appeared posthumously in 1969).

After the war, Céline cultivated his existence as that of a mean, unteachable old Nazi with esoteric artistic dreams and proletarian roots, but in reality remained an extremely alert observer of his time until the end. Céline did not take back his anti-Semitic remarks after the war, he even added a few now somewhat concealed malicious acts, led journalistic battles against his intimate enemy Sartre , recorded a record, practiced as a doctor, wrote a book almost every year and looked after his many Dogs, cats and parrots. Celine died the day he finished the manuscript of the trilogy and declared in his will to be proud of not leaving his wife in debt. His body was buried in the Haut-Meudon cemetery.

Women

Celine was married twice, first to Edith Follet (1919-1926) and from 1940 until his death with Lucette Destouches (1912-2019), a dancer of the Opéra-Comique . In the meantime he had a relationship with the American dancer Elizabeth Craig , who had accompanied him on several trips and to whom he dedicated the trip to the end of the night . His widow Lucette Destouches co-managed the estate for decades and died in November 2019 at the age of 107.

If his own reports are to be believed, he was a notorious philanderer ; this is also suggested by the reports of his two partners, Elizabeth Craig and Lucette Almanzor. He preferred the well-trained type of woman one encounters among ballet dancers, and was almost exclusively in relationships with them. According to Almanzor, Celine was a supporter of group sex and free physical love. Craig reports that during his relationship with her, Celine often made intimate acquaintances with other women on a daily basis.

effect

Despite the considerable translation problems of his often barely structured flow of thoughts, Celine had an effect on many writers, such as Henry Miller , Jean-Paul Sartre , Philip Roth and Helmut Krausser . Today Celine is recognized as one of the most important language innovators of the 20th century. Fritz J. Raddatz characterizes the raw and associative style of Mort à crèdit , which, with its moral-free portrayal of the misery of his impoverished patients, is often considered the best work of Celine, as a "naturalism of malice incited to extreme cascades of words". Charles Bukowski dedicated a short story to Céline and said of his literary role model: " Journey to the end of the night is the best book that has been written in the last two thousand years." It can also be stated that comparable literary works deal with the chaotic phase of the collapse of the German Empire from a German pen do not exist.

Celine's 50th anniversary of his death has been placed on the official list of national ceremonies in France. Serge Klarsfeld from the “Association of Jewish Deported Children” protested against this admission and declared: “The republic must preserve its values: Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand must refrain from throwing flowers on Celine's memory.” Leading figures of the French public turned against the "Pantheonizing an Anti-Semitic Writer". Other voices saw this as "censorship". Due to public pressure, the celebrations were finally canceled by Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand.

The piece "End of the Night" by the American rock group The Doors is based on the occupation of the singer Jim Morrison with Céline's work, in particular with Journey to the End of the Night . In autumn 2013, the director Frank Castorf staged a dramatized version of the journey to the end of the night at the Munich Residenztheater .

In the early 1960s, the Paris publishing house Gallimard published a new edition of Céline's work in the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade series , which did not include the radical anti-Semitic “pamphlets” from the 1930s and 1940s. A further edition of Pléiade from the 1970s onwards did not contain these works. This was done primarily in consideration of the widow and copyright owner Célines, who thereby complied with the wishes of her deceased husband. In 2017 it became known that Lucette Almanzor-Destouches - now 105 years old - had changed her view on this and that Gallimard was planning a completely new edition for 2018, including the incriminated "pamphlets". Gallimard assured that the anti-Semitic texts would only be published with extensive comments and a foreword.

Works

Work editions

• Jean A. Ducourneau (ed.): Œuvres de Louis-Ferdinand Céline. 5 vols. Balland, Paris, 1966–1969.
• Céline L.-F., Vitoux, Frédéric: Les œuvres de Céline . 9 vols. Club de l'Honnête Homme, Paris, 1981–1983.
• Céline L.-F., Godard, Henri / Pléiade edition (Gallimard).
• Celine, Romans I Journey to the End of the Night . Death on credit . Ed. V. Henri Godard. Gallimard, Paris 1981.
• Céline, Romans II From one castle to another . North . Rigodon ; ' Louis-Ferdinand Céline vous parle '- Conversation with Albert Zbinden. Ed. V. Henri Godard. Gallimard, Paris 1974; 2003.
• Celine, Romans III Casse-pipe . Guignol's band . Guignol's volume II ed. Henri Godard, Gallimard, Paris 1988.
• Celine, Romans IV Fairy tales for sometime I. Fairy tales for sometime II. Conversations with Professor Y. , ed. Henri Godard. Gallimard, Paris 1993.
• Céline, Letters (selection of volume) [Lettres (1907–1961)]. Ed. V. Henri Godard. Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-011604-1 .

Single issues

• La vie et l'oeuvre de Philippe-Ignace Semmelweis. - Life and work of Philipp Ignaz Semmelweis (1818–1865), also Céline's dissertation. 1924. New edition: Edition Age d'Homme 1980, ISBN 3-85418-004-7 .
• L'Église. Play, created in 1926, premiered in 1973. German: Die Kirche . Comedy in five acts. Translator Gerhard Heller . Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 1970, ISBN 3-87536-009-5 .
• Voyage au bout de la nuit. Novel. 1932. German adaptation (poor): Journey to the end of the night . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992 and earlier (Kittl, Mähr.-Ostrau [among others] [1933], translator: Isak Grünberg). ISBN 3-499-40098-7 . Complete version & new translation by Hinrich Schmidt-Henkel : Rowohlt, Reinbek 2003 u. ö.
• Mort à credit. Novel. 1936. (German death on credit. Translator Werner Bökenkamp. German new edition Rowohlt, Reinbek 2005.
  • Death on Borg: novel. Kittls Nachf., Leipzig-M.-Ostrau 1936. Translator: Isak Grünberg.
• Mea Culpa and The Life and Work of the Doctor Ph. I. Semmelweis. Kittl's descendants, Leipzig / M.-Ostrau no year (1937); available again in the GW hg. Jean A. Ducourneau. Balland 1967 (French).
• Bagatelles pour a massacre. Pamphlet. 1937. (In one year more than 80,000 copies were sold. ['Little things for a bloodbath'])
  • The Jewish conspiracy in France . Translation: Willi Fr. Koenitzer ; Arthur S. Pfannstiel. Zwinger-Verlag, Dresden 1938.
• L'École des cadavres. Denoël, Paris 1938. (Eng. "School of corpses").
• Les Beaux Draps. Nouvelles Éditions Françaises, Paris 1941 .; réed. Les Éditions de la Reconquête, 2008. (Eng. "We're good off!")
• Guignol's band. Novel. 2 vol. 1944/1985 (German Guignol's volume 1988/1997 ).
• À l'agité du bocal. P. Lanauve de Tartas, Paris 1948; New edition: L'Herne Paris 2006 ISBN 978-2-85197-656-7 (German for the restless December ).
• Casse-pipe. Éditions Chambriand, Paris, 1949. (German cannon fodder. With the notebook of the cuirassier Destouches . Translated from the French and with an afterword by Christine Sautermeister-Noël and Gerd Sautermeister. Rowohlt TB-V., Reinbek 1977.)
• Féerie pour une autre fois. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 1952. (German fairy tale for sometime ).
• Normance: Féerie pour une autre fois II. Novel. Gallimard, 1954.
• Entretiens avec le Professeur Y. / Conversations with Professor Y. 1955. Edition Nautilus, Hamburg 2004.
• D'un château l'autre. Novel. 1957. (German. From one lock to another ).
• North / north ) Roman. 1960. 'rororo paperbacks'. Rowohlt 1985 - 384 pp. ISBN 3-499-15499-4 .
• Rigodon. Gallimard, Paris, 1969
• Progress and other texts for stage and film. Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 1997, ISBN 3-926112-57-3 .
• Letters and first writings from Africa. 1916-1917. Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 1998, ISBN 3-926112-80-8 .
• Letters to friends. 1932-1948. Merlin Verlag, Gifkendorf 2007, ISBN 978-3-87536-256-5 .
• Letters (selection volume). [Lettres (1907-1961)] ed. Henri Godard, Pléiade edition, Gallimard, Paris 2009 ISBN 978-2-07-011604-1 .

literature

Biographical sources

• Louis-Ferdinand Celine: Cahier Celine 7: Celine et l'actualité 1933–1961. Ed. Jean-Pierre Dauphin, Pascal Fouché. Paris 1986.
• Madeleine Chapsal: French writer intimate. Translated by Sabine Gruber. Matthes & Seitz, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-88221-758-8 .
• Elizabeth Craig: Poor lover. E. Craig tells about Louis-Ferdinand Celine. Munich 1996.
• Lucette Destouches, Véronique Robert: My life with Céline. Munich 2003.
• Ernst Jünger: Radiations I and II. Stuttgart 1962.
• Nicholas Hewitt: The life of Celine. A critical biography. Oxford 1999.
  • dsb .: Celine. The success of the "Monstre Sacré" in postwar France. in Zs. Substance No. 102, Vol. 32, H. 3, University of Wisconsin System , 2003 pp. 29–42, excerpt (in Engl.)
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Louis-Ferdinand Celine et Karl Epting . Contains letters and texts, execute. Bibliography on both. Ed. Le Bulletin célinien, Brussels 2008, ISBN 2-9600106-2-0 . In Frz.
• Christine Sautermeister : Celine à Sigmaringen. November 1944 - Mars 1945. Chronique d'un séjour controversé. Écriture, Paris 2013. In French

Secondary literature

• Philippe Alméras: Les Idées de Céline. Berg international 1992.
• Philippe Alméras: Céline - entre haines et passion. Robert Laffont, Paris 1993.
• Philippe Alméras: Dictionnaire Céline. Plon, Paris 2004.
• Maurice Bardèche: Louis-Ferdinand Celine. La Table Ronde, Paris 1986.
• Ulrich Bielefeld: Nation and Society: Self-thematizing in France and Germany. Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-930908-83-2 .
• Rudolf von Bitter: A wild product; Louis-Ferdinand Céline and his novel “Journey to the End of the Night” in German-speaking countries. A reception study. Romanistischer Verlag, Bonn 2007, ISBN 3-86143-178-5 .
• Andreas Blank: Literarization of Orality: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Raymond Queneau. Narr, Tübingen 1991, ISBN 3-8233-4554-0 . Diss. Phil. Freiburg 1990 under the title Proximity Language and Literature.
• Arno Breker : Homage to Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Avec lithographies originales d'Arno Breker. La Revue Célinienne, Bonn 1983.
  • Arno Breker: Louis-Ferdinand Céline in memory. In: Writings. Marco, Bonn 1983, ISBN 3-921754-19-4 .
• Ulf Geyersbach: Louis-Ferdinand Celine . Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-50674-1 .
• François Gibault: Celine. Mercure de France, Paris 1977–1985 (3 volumes).
• Henri Godard: Celine scandale. Gallimard, Blanche Collection, Paris 1994, ISBN 978-2-07-073802-1 ; Folio, No. 3066, 1998, ISBN 2-07-040462-5 .
• Henri Godard: Un autre Céline , Textuel, (2 vol.), Paris 2008
• Henri Godard: Celine. Gallimard, "collection biographies" series, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-012192-2 .
• Hanns Grössel: Standing on the right side. About Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Qumran, Frankfurt 1981. Series: Portrait, 7
• Anne Henry: Celine Ecrivain. L'Harmattan, Paris 1994.
• Milton Hindus: L.-F. Celine tel que je l'ai vu. L'Herne, Paris 1999.
• Sven Thorsten Kilian: The storytelling scene. Eventful speaking in “Bagatelles pour un massacre”, “Guignol's band” and “Féerie pour une autre fois” by Louis-Ferdinand Céline. Fink, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-7705-5438-6 .
• Karl Kohut (Hg): Literature of the Resistance and Collaboration in France Part 3: Texts and interpretations. Narr, Tübingen 1984, ISBN 3-87808-910-4 , p. 150f. (For LFC: “Les beaux draps”; as well as passim in all 3 volumes (Part 3: extracts can be read online, e.g. via Google Book Search, contains the name index and the entire literature for all three volumes, with 1517 titles online or 1676 in print.))
  • About LFC in Part 1: UT History and Impact. Hermann Hofer: The fascist literature. ibid. 1982. ISBN 3-87808-908-2 . Pp. 133-137.
• Till R. Kuhnle: Louis-Ferdinand Celine: "Voyage au bout de la nuit". In: Wolfgang Asholt (ed.): 20th century: Roman. Series: Stauffenburg Interpretation. Tübingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86057-909-1 .
• Franziska Meier: Emancipation as a challenge: right-wing revolutionary writers between bisexuality and androgyny . Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-205-98877-9 .
• Philippe Muray , Celine. Éditions du Seuil, Paris 1981. (Collection Tel quel) Bibliogr. Pp. 237-238. - 2-02-005921-5. (New edition Denoël, 1984; new edition Gallimard, «Tel» 312, 2001, ISBN 2-07041356-X ). German edition: Celine. translated by Nicola Denis. Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-88221-559-5 .
• Robert Poulet, Entretiens familiers avec LF Céline. Plon, "Tribune libre" Paris 1958; (Latest edition: Mon ami Bardamu , entretiens familiers avec LF Céline. Plon, Paris 1971).
• Dominique de Roux, Michel Thélia, M. Beaujour (eds.): Cahier Céline. L'Herne, 1970; 2006, ISBN 978-2-85197-156-2 .
• Thomas Schmidt-Grassee: Les écrits maudits de Céline. Investigations into the meaning of the pamphlets Louis-Ferdinand Célines in the horizon of his complete works. Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-86143-013-4 .
• Philipp Wascher: Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Germany. Reception history from 1932–1961. Series: IFAVL, Volume 94.Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-89693-451-1 .

Movies

• Celine à Meudon. Documentary by Nicolas Crapanne, 2009. Participants: David Alliot, Philippe Alméras, Madeleine Chapsal , Christian Dedet, Pierre, Geneviève Freneau, François Gibault, Henri Godard, Judith Magre , Louis Pauwels, Frédéric Vitoux. Photos by Robert Doisneau and Henri Cartier-Bresson
• Arte-Film, 2011, see web links

Fine art object

Celine was often an object of the visual arts himself, as his portraits in sculptures, drawings and paintings attest. Portrait busts designed a. a.

• Arno Breker , Berlin / Paris
• Peter Hohberger , Brussels / Düsseldorf
• Georg Cadora , Paris (portrait drawing ), Museum European Art Collection

Web links

Commons : Louis-Ferdinand Céline  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Louis-Ferdinand Céline  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Louis-Ferdinand Céline in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Louis-Ferdinand Céline  in the German Digital Library
• Louis-Ferdinand Céline in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Bibliography of the titles at Rowohlt Verlag
• The Celine case - portrait of the French writer. Film by Antoine de Meaux and Alain Moreau on arte on October 17, 2011 (55 minutes)
• Université McGill: le roman selon les romanciers (French) inventory and analysis of the non-fiction writings of Louis-Ferdinand Céline
• Oleg Yuryev . Genius and disgust . In: Der Tagesspiegel ( Berlin ), JURJEWS KLASSIKER
• Louis-Ferdinand Celine (J. Monika Walther)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Courtial des Pereires from death on credit
2. ↑ See Julian Jackson: La France sous l'occupation 1940-1944. Paris 2004, p. 136.
3. ↑ Michael Klein: Ghostly Comeback , Antifa , January 28, 2019
4. ↑ Bagatelles pour un massacre , p. 142.
5. ↑ Quoted from Berzel, Barbara, French Literature in the Sign of Collaboration and Fascism. Alphonse de Châteaubriant, Robert Brasillach and Jacques Chardonne, Tübingen 2012, p. 59.
6. ↑ Les Beaux Draps , p. 74.
7. ↑ Lettres. Gallimard, Paris 2009, 2080 pages
8. ↑ A summary of letters ( Die Zeit 1/2010, December 30, 2009, p. 47 ) shows the author's radical anti-Semitic furor until the end of his life. In 1941 he wrote to Cocteau: “For me, racial reason outperforms art or friendship. Are you ... anti-Semite? It all depends. ”- In the 1960s he was interested in evidence that there were no gas chambers “ anywhere in Germany ”and asked his addressee, Hermann Bickler , a leading Nazi from Alsace, for further evidence .
9. ↑ Celine in a rare photograph, accessed on September 16, 2009. The date and location of the photo is unclear, it is based on this single source, an association of Breker fans. Celine and Breker met in any case in 1943 on November 16 in Paris in Dt. Institute, as reported by Ernst Jünger.
10. ↑ Became known in 1982 through a publication under the name René Patris-d'Uckermann, about the romantic painter Ernest Hébert (1817–1908), who painted the author's adoptive mother, Gabrielle d'Uckermann. The painter Auguste Felix painted René Ückermann at a young age, the picture hangs in the Musée national Ernest Hébert in Paris ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In 1952 there was a Spiegel report on René d'Ückermann, who, as literary director at Flammarion, Paris, had published alleged works by Hitler. 
11. ^ Thomas R. Nevin: Ernst Jünger and Germany. Into the Abyss 1914-1945. Durham, NC 1996, p. 186.
12. ^ Frédéric Vitoux: La vie de Céline . Paris 1988, p. 481.
13. ↑ Hewitt 1999: Biography Celine, pp. 301-37. However, Christine Sautermeister has been different since 2013, who carries out exact dating and localization. In his novel, Céline deliberately distorted times and places, the historically reliable core of his explanations is small
14. ^ Hewitt 2003: Celine: The Success of the Monstre Sacre in Postwar France , pp. 1056-1161.
15. ↑ Elzeviro. Addio a Lucette Almanzor, custode fedele del buio di Céline. November 9, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 (Italian). 
16. ^ Fritz J. Raddatz: Dream on millimeter paper. On Louis Aragon's book 'Pariser Landleben' , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , 10./11. January 1970.
17. ^ Association of Jews against Céline's ceremony ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: relevant.at , January 20, 2011. 
18. ↑ Louis-Ferdinand Celine sur la radio publique allemande mardi 21 June 2011. Accessed on February 25, 2017 . 
19. ^ Controversy about Celine / message. Retrieved February 25, 2017 . 
20. ↑ Productions: Journey to the End of the Night according to Louis-Ferdinand Céline. In: "Residenz Theater". October 30, 2013, accessed on October 31, 2013 : “Premiere October 31, 13th performance approx. 4 hours. 30. Directed by Frank Castorf; Stage Aleksandar Denić; Costumes Adriana Braga Peretzki; Light Gerrit Jurda; Live camera Marius Winterstein and Jaromir Zezula; Video Stefan Muhle; Dramaturgy Angela Obst " 
21. ↑ Helmut Mayer: Celine re-edition: His poison was real. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 28, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 . 
22. ↑ translated by Céline Werner Bökenkamp, the several titles, wrote in 1940 the book of France universalism. An enemy of the people and in 1955 the guide on dealing with the French.
23. ↑ Interview with Céline, trans. Cornelia Langendorf, pp. 205–226.
24. ↑ to the French reception until today
25. ↑ Epting was later headmaster in Baden-Württemberg.
26. ↑ Review: Gérard Foussier: Collaboration et fiction. Intellectuels de droite pendant le Troisième Reich. In: Documents - Documents. Journal for the German-French dialogue. H. 4, Bonn, Winter 2013, ISSN  0012-5172 , pp. 47-50. (Sautermeister is a co-author at the Société d'études céliniennes . She did her doctorate on Céline's reception in Germany.)
27. ↑ Portrait collection of the European Cultural Foundation