Marek Halter

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Marek Halter (1991)

Marek Halter (born January 27, 1936 in Warsaw ) is a Polish-French Jewish artist and author .

Life

Marek Halter's family fled to the Soviet-occupied part after the German conquest of Poland in 1939 and ended up in the Uzbek Soviet Republic after 1941 . The family was only able to return to Poland in 1946, but emigrated to France in 1950 . In Paris , Halter became a student of the mime Marcel Marceau . He studied painting at the École des beaux-arts . From 1955 to 1957 he stayed in Buenos Aires , where he had his first exhibition.

Back in Paris he had further exhibitions in galleries. He wrote a large number of essays and novels taking up subjects of Judaism, including a trilogy of historical novels about female characters from the Bible: Sarah , Tsippora and Lilah, the sister of Ezra . In 2006 he added a novel about Mary to his Bible au féminin . Halter was politically involved in the initiative to free the political prisoner Gilad Shalit and is a member of the Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme . He himself counts many politicians from Israel and France among his interlocutors. His report Tzedek / Les Justes about those who saved the lives of persecuted Jews during World War II was shown at the 1995 Berlinale . His autobiographical La mémoire d'Abraham has been sold over 25 million times worldwide.

On his initiative, a Collège Universitaire Français was founded in St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1991/92 , and he headed the one in Moscow until 2007. Halter was made an officer of the Legion of Honor in 2008.

Halter's novel-like portrayal of his autobiography has been questioned in detail by critics, such as his compatriot, the Jewish Holocaust researcher Michał Borwicz . In articles in Le Point and Le Nouvel Observateur magazines , he was accused of lying (mensonges) .

Works (selection)

  • Ève . Paris: Laffont, 2016.
  • Les femmes de l'islam . Paris: Laffont, 2014.
  • Faites-le! : une mémoire engagée . Paris: Kero, 2013
  • L'inconnue de Birobidjan: roman . Paris: Robert Laffont, 2012
  • Le kabbaliste de Prague: roman . Paris: Laffont, 2010
  • La pure de Saba: roman . Paris: Laffont, 2008
  • Marie: roman . Paris: R. Laffont, 2006
  • Lilah: la Bible au feminin . Novel. Paris: Laffont, 2004
  • Tsippora: la Bible au féminin . Novel. Paris: Laffont, 2003
  • Sarah: la Bible au féminin . Novel. Paris: Laffont, 2003
  • Le vent des Khazars: novel . Paris: Laffont, 2001
    • The Messiah Code: Roman . Translated from the French. by Manfred Flügge . Berlin: Aufbau-Taschenbuch-Verl. 2005
  • Le judaïsme raconté à mes filleuls . Paris: Laffont, 1999
    • Everything starts with Abraham. Judaism told in simple terms . From the Franz. By Markus Sedlaczek. Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2001
  • Les mystères de Jérusalem . Paris: R. Laffont, 1999.
    • The Secrets of Jerusalem: Roman . From the Franz. By Iris Roebling. Berlin: Rütten and Loening 2002
  • Le messie . Paris: R. Laffont, 1996
    • The Messiah: Roman . German by Annette Lallemand. Reinbek near Hamburg: Wunderlich 1999
  • La force you bien . Paris: Laffont, 1995
  • with Alexis Liguaire: Les Justes, ces héros inconnus . France: Larousse, 2010
    • In Search of the 36 Righteous: Conversations with the True Heroes of this Century . From the Franz. By Brigitta Restorff and Josef Winiger . Munich ; Leipzig: List 1997
  • Les fous de la paix: histoire secrète d'une négociation . Paris: Plon / Laffont, 1994
    • with Erik Laurent: Negotiators without a mandate: the secret history of the peace agreement between Israel and the PLO (translated by Thorsten Schmidt). Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-029408-4 .
  • The mémoire inquiète: il ya cinquante ans, le ghetto de Varsovie . Paris: R. Laffont, 1993
  • Les fils d'Abraham . Paris: Editions Robert Laffont, 1989
    • Abraham's Sons: Roman . German by Eliane Hagedorn and Barbara Reitz. Düsseldorf; Vienna; New York ; Moscow: ECON publ. 1992
  • Argentina, Argentina: Roman . Paris: Albin Michel, 1986
  • La memoire d'Abraham . Paris: Editions R. Laffont, 1983
    • Abraham: ways of remembrance. Novel . From d. Franz. Von Widulind Clerc-Alder. Heidelberg: Kübler and Akselrad, 1984

Exhibition catalogs (selection)

  • Marek Halter . Toulon. La tour d'Aigues: Ed. de l'Aube, 1996.
  • Marek Halter . Paris: Galerie Vallois: Galerie Christiane Colin, 1977
  • May: designs . Genève: Ed. de l'Avenir, 1970
  • Marek Halter . Gallery Philippe Reichenbach. Paris, 1966
  • Marek Halter . Cologne, Gmurzynska art gallery, 1962

literature

Web links

Commons : Marek Halter  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marek Halter: manuel de survie à l'usage des sages d'aujourd'hui , BSC, May 9, 2011
  2. ↑ L'équipe du Collège Universitaire Français de Moscou
  3. ↑ L'homme qui a tout vécu ... ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 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. , Le Point, April 28, 2005 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lepoint.fr
  4. ↑ Grégoire Leménager: Les mensonges de Marek Halter , in: Le Nouvel Observateur, October 15, 2008
  5. ↑ Marek Halter: The Kabbalist of Prague ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2014 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. , at Arte , April 13, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arte.tv
  6. ↑ Thomas Yadan: Paroles de paix , interview in Le Figaro , October 30, 2006 (Evene.fr)
  7. ↑ Marko Martin : About the Khazar Empire , Deutschlandradio Kultur, January 11, 2006


personal data
SURNAME Halter, Marek
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish-French artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Warsaw