Anne Sinclair

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Anne Sinclair (born July 15, 1948 in New York City , born Anne-Élise Schwartz) is an American-French journalist .

family

Anne Sinclair is the daughter of Joseph-Robert Schwartz (from 1949 Sinclair), a French Jew and Resistance fighter , industrialist and knight of the Legion of Honor , and Micheline Nanette Rosenberg. She is a granddaughter of Paul Rosenberg , a major gallery owner and art dealer in Paris and later in New York, whose business and collection of paintings were confiscated and only partially restituted by the Vichy government and the Germans during the anti-Semitic measures during the German occupation of France. Anne Sinclair inherited part of the painting collection worth many millions of euros. In 2007, Christie's inheritance sold the painting L'Odalisque, harmonie bleue by Henri Matisse for $ 33.6 million. As Rosenberg's granddaughter, she was named in March 2014 as one of the two legal heirs to whom the painting Seated Woman by Matisse, identified as looted art , was to be returned from the Gurlitt collection .

She is divorced from the journalist and Holocaust survivor Ivan Levaï , with whom she has two children. On November 24, 1991 she married the politician Dominique Strauss-Kahn (* 1949). To support Strauss-Kahn's application in the candidate list for the French presidential election 2012 , she began to write a biography of her grandfather in 2011, which should come out during the election campaign; the book was published under changed circumstances in 2012.

Strauss-Kahn had to give up his head post at the IMF in May 2011 after allegations of rape . Sinclair stood by him, put a large bail out of her private fortune and demonstratively visited him in custody. The divorce took place in March 2013. Sinclair has lived with the historian Pierre Nora ever since .

Sinclair is (according to his own statement) Jewish.

Professional background

Initially a licentiate in law, she graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Paris in 1972 . She began her career in 1973 as a journalist for the broadcaster Europe 1 .

In 1983 she was hired by the TF1 for the series Édition spéciale . Sinclair hosted the Sunday evening program Sept sur Sept (“7/7”) , which is extremely popular in France, and thus became one of the country's best-known journalists. It won three Sept d'Or awards , the French equivalent of the Emmy Award . After the privatization of TF1, she became Vice Director for Information and later General Manager of the company. In 1997, after her husband Dominique Strauss-Kahn was appointed Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry , she decided to stop conducting political programs in order to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interests and became General Director of the Internet subsidiary e-TF1 , later Vice President.

She left the TF1 group in 2001 after disagreements with Patrick Le Lay , the broadcaster's general manager. She returned to the Netgem group , joined RTL in 2002 and worked with Paris Match magazine . From 2003 to 2007 she directed the program “Libre Cours” at France Inter , in which students meet with professionals in demanding professions. In 2008 she worked on the program “Le Grand Journal” on Canal + and reported - alternately with Laurence Haïm - from the USA on the presidential election (in which Barack Obama won).

Also in 2008 she started her internet blog Two or three things from America with comments on American and international political topics. This blog became one of the most recognized in France.

In January 2012 she took over the business management of the online magazine for the French-language edition of the Huffington Post .

Sinclair is the author of several books.

Fonts

  • Une année particulière (An Unusual Year) , 1982
  • Deux ou trois choses que je sais d'eux (Two or three things I know about you) , 1997
  • Caméra subjective , 2002
  • 21, rue La Boétie , Grasset & Fasquelle, Paris, 2012, ISBN 978-2-24673731-5 ; German translation: Dear Picasso, where are my harlequins. My grandfather, the art dealer Paul Rosenberg , Kunstmann, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-88897-820-3
  • Chronique d'une France blessée: July 2015-January 2017 . Grasset & Fasquelle, March 2017, ISBN 978-2246812234

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christie's
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ^ A b Rachel Donadio: The lady reappears , International New York Times , September 13, 2014, p. 18, p. 20
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Rundschau
  5. ↑ DSK et Anne Sinclair ont officiellement divorcé la semaine dernière , voici.fr, accessed on November 8, 2013
  6. ↑ Interview in the world on Sunday
  7. ^ Awards for Anne Sinclair . In: IMDb . Retrieved July 8, 2011. 
  8. ^ Anne Sinclair in the 'top 12' des blogs politiques . In: L'Express . February 13, 2009. Retrieved July 8, 2011.
  9. ↑ Leparisien.fr
personal data
SURNAME Sinclair, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City