Albertine Sarrazin
Albertine Sarrazin (born September 17, 1937 in Algiers , † July 10, 1967 in Montpellier ) was a French writer .
Life
Albertine Sarrazin was adopted by an old French couple at the age of eighteen months, raped by a stranger at the age of ten and put in a correctional home by the adoptive parents. She then spent most of her life in correctional homes, reform schools and behind prison walls. She used the free time on the day of the high school examination to escape to Paris . There she got by as a prostitute and with theft until she met Emilienne, her lover from the institution, again. They carried out an armed robbery together. Albertine Sarrazin was sentenced to seven years in juvenile prison. At nineteen she managed to escape. She jumped over the prison wall, broke her foot and was picked up by a man, seriously injured. Julien Sarrazin was also an escaped prisoner, first becoming her boyfriend, then her lover, and finally her husband. Most of the eight years of their marriage were spent separately in prison, repeatedly arrested for theft and stolen goods. During this time, they wrote secret letters to each other every day.
In prison, Albertine Sarrazin began to write down her memories and everyday prison life. In freedom in 1964, from these notes she formulated her first novels L'Astragale and La Cavale (Eng. " Kassiber ", 1967, "Der Ausbruch", 2018), which appeared the following year with the intercession of Simone de Beauvoir and which were used as female prisoners. and crime novels caused a sensation. Her third novel, La Traversière, followed in the same year (German: "stages", 1970, "Querwege", 2019).
In 1966 Albertine Sarrazin was awarded the Prix des Quatre Jury . The following year she and her husband settled in Les Matelles ; shortly afterwards she died at the age of 29 after a kidney operation that had failed due to negligence on the part of the treating doctors.
Movie
Her first work L'Astragale was filmed in 1968 by Guy Casaril with Marlène Jobert in the lead role and Horst Buchholz as Julien . A new film version with Leïla Bekhti and Reda Kateb in the leading roles was made in 2015 and directed by Brigitte Sy .
Works
- The astragalus. Desch, Munich 1966.
- Cash register. Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1967.
- Stages. Desch, Munich 1970, ISBN 3-420-04592-1
- Astragalus. With an afterword by Patti Smith , in German by Claudia Steinitz. Hanser, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-446-24148-0 .
- The outbreak. Ink Press, German by Claudia Steinitz, Zurich 2018, ISBN 978-3-906-81108-6 .
- Cross paths . Ink Press, German by Claudia Steinitz, Zurich, 2019, ISBN 978-3906811123
literature
- Luise F. Pusch , Susanne Gretter (Ed.): Famous women. Insel-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-458-16949-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Albertine Sarrazin in the catalog of the German National Library
- FemBiography Albertine Sarrazin with quotes, links and literature
- Paul Jandl: Albertine Sarrazin was the poet of French prisons. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , accessed on August 11, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sarrazin, Albertine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 17, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Algiers |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1967 |
| Place of death | Montpellier |