Alphonse de Châteaubriant

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Alphonse Van Bredenbeck de Châteaubriant (also: ... de Brédenbec ...; * March 25, 1877 in Rennes ; † May 2, 1951 in Kitzbühel ) was a French writer who sympathized with National Socialism and with the German during World War II Occupying power collaborated .

life and work

Châteaubriant won the Prix ​​Goncourt in 1911 for his novel Monsieur de Lourdines . A trip to Germany in 1935 made him an enthusiastic supporter of National Socialism . During the Second World War he became a member of the central committee of the Légion des volontaires français contre le bolchévisme , an organization founded in 1941 by Fernand de Brinon and Jacques Doriot to recruit volunteers for the Eastern Front .

Châteaubriant believed in a possible alliance between Great Britain and Nazi Germany and headed the magazine “ La Gerbe ”, which saw itself as a “political and literary weekly”. The editor was Marc Augier . The first edition appeared on July 11, 1940 with contributions by Jean Giono , Paul Morand , Jean Cocteau , Marcel Aymé and Sacha Guitry . The authors of the magazine propagated an Aryan Europe liberated from Bolshevism. When Allied troops advanced on Paris in August 1944 , Châteaubriant fled to Germany. He was there when the last issue of "Gerbe" appeared on August 17th. A committee founded by communists in the course of the Resistance in 1941 put his name on a list of authors whom it deemed undesirable.

In 1945 de Châteaubriant fled to Austria , where he worked under the name of Dr. Alfred Wolf lived in Kitzbühel . On October 25, 1945, he was sentenced to death in absentia in Paris. The arrest warrant against him did not reach him in Austria; Châteaubriant hid in a monastery in Tyrol. There he died; previously he published a font in 1951 with the title Lettre à la chrétienté mourante . He was buried in the Kitzbühel cemetery.

His works are forgotten today.

Work (in German)

literature

  • Kay Chadwick: Alphonse de Châteaubriant. Catholic collaborator . Modern French identities, 14. Peter Lang, Oxford 2002, ISBN 3-906766-94-2 .
  • Louis-Alphonse Maugendre: Alphonse de Chateaubriant 1877-1951 . Editions André Bonne, Paris 1977.
  • Barbara Berzel: French literature under the sign of collaboration and fascism. Gunter Narr, Tübingen 2012 ISBN 3-8233-6746-3 esp. Pp. 93-182 (chapter Châteaubriant).
  • Sebastian Liebold : Collaboration of the Spirit. German and French right-wing intellectuals 1933 - 1940. Contributions to political science, 170. Duncker & Humblot , Berlin 2013 ISBN 978-3-428-13741-1 .
    • Review: Gérard Foussier: Collaboration et fiction. Intellectuels de droite pendant le Troisième Reich . In: "Documents - Documents. Journal for the Franco-German Dialogue." H. 4, Bonn, Winter 2013 ISSN  0012-5172 pp. 47-50.

Web links

notes

  1. ↑ French Comité national des écrivains , translated as 'National Committee of Writers'
  2. ↑ sixième section of the 'Cour de justice de la Seine'. More about this court here (pdf)
  3. ↑ ed. Bernard Grasset, Paris, 1951 ( excerpts )
  4. ↑ Photo of the grave
  5. ↑ ( excerpts )
  6. ↑ on Friedrich Sieburg , Karl Epting , Johannes Stoye, André Germain , de Châteaubriant, Bertrand de Jouvenel . Reviews in Perlentaucher (according to FAZ ) and Francia (magazine) , these links in Lemma Germain.
  7. ↑ In German. Short biographies of the 6 protagonists in French p. 50.
personal data
SURNAME Châteaubriant, Alphonse de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wolf, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Rennes
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1951
Place of death Kitzbühel