Azouz Begag

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Azouz Begag (2007)

Azouz Begag (born February 5, 1957 in Lyon ) is a French sociologist , economist , writer and researcher in the CNRS . From June 2, 2005 to April 5, 2007 he was Assistant Minister for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities.

Life

His parents come from Algeria - a colony of France at the time - and emigrated to what was then the French metropolis in 1949. Begag spent his childhood in the Banlieue of Lyon, later the family moved to the old town of Duchère . Begag earned a doctorate in economics from the University of Lyon and shortly afterwards emigrated to New York , where he became a visiting professor at Cornell University .

Later he was able to combine his activities as a researcher at the CNRS and, since 1980, at the Maison des sciences sociales et humaines (roughly: "Institute for Social and Human Sciences") in Lyon and as a teacher at the École Centrale de Lyon .

In 2004, under the auspices of former Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin and former Interior Minister Dominique de Villepin, he became a member of the Conseil économique et social (Economic and Social Council) until he joined the de Villepins government in June 2005. He is a knight of Ordre national du Mérite and the Legion of Honor .

From June 2, 2005 to April 5, 2007, Azouz Begag was Assistant Minister for the Promotion of Equal Opportunities under Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and was one of the first French of Maghreb origin to hold a government position. He had previously, when he was interior minister under the Raffarin III government , ordered a report on the Police nationale and “The new France or the population coming from immigration”.

During this time he saw it as his task to ensure the promotion of certain groups of people without practicing too much positive discrimination , i.e. quota regulation .

During his tenure as minister, he distanced himself more and more from the then Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and openly declared during the election campaign for the 2007 presidential election that he would not support his candidacy. In an interview with the Spanish newspaper El País , he accused him of "insulting Muslims and Arabs". In order to "regain his freedom of speech", he resigned from the government on April 5, 2007. Begag took an active part in the election campaign of the center politician François Bayrou , who received 18.6% of the vote in the first ballot, finally stood for the parliamentary elections on June 10 as a candidate for his newly founded party Mouvement démocrate in the third constituency of the Rhône department and called after losing 14.74% of the vote in the first ballot, to support the socialist candidate Jean-Louis Touraine against the conservative Jean-Michel Dubernard in the second ballot .

Azouz Begag has been a guest of the children's and youth program at the Berlin International Literature Festival almost every year since 2002 and presents his literary work in this context. In 2012 and 2014 he was also a member of the jury for The Extraordinary Book award of the children and youth program of the Berlin International Literature Festival .

Begag is divorced and has two daughters.

Published interview in Respect Magazine

In a long conversation with the journalist Marc Cheb Sun and Hélène Ganzmann that in the quarterly Respect Magazine is published (no. 8, October-December 2005), the Minister expressed particular, ahead of the 2005 French riots to the situation reside (the "in the neighborhoods youth" les jeunes qui habitent dans les quartiers "to find his impressions in the company"), and as a reference to "[...] it is necessary that Periphérique [the motorway, that separates Paris from the suburbs], to go to the locals there, the descendants of Vercingetorix ... [the white French, note] That is risky because you quickly get one gets the snout, especially if you have dark skin ... ”A little later in the same conversation, he added on the subject of giving up awareness that surrounds him:“ If I keep my freedom of speech, my sense of civic responsibility, so is it up to me u say: 'You have to kick the doors in', and if they don't want to open you have to use the pliers. Wherever diversity does not exist, there must be an invasion of locusts in public service competitions, in national police ... Everywhere so that one cannot be sidelined again. The key word for my assignment is awareness-raising. I have already announced the composition of my cabinet: 'I want a black man, I want someone from the Antilles , a man from Madagascar , I want women, I want diversity'. I have arranged my cabinet according to this diversity; it resembles France today. "

Chroniclers have criticized the Minister's use of the term "locust invasion".

literature

In 1989 the novel of his youth was published: “Almost Everywhere”, in which he describes discrimination against the non-white population in the mid- 1970s . In the foreword to the German edition, Begag wrote that there had been outbreaks of violence in the suburbs as early as the 1970s, but now, in 2000, it is worse: "From the struggle of individual youths from the suburbs who competed against racism (...), has become a collective struggle. "

Section "Literature" quoted from the Tagesspiegel (November 6, 2005)

bibliography

Azouz Begag has published more than 20 books, of which he wrote several novels inspired by his childhood, such as "Le Gone du Chaâba" or the homage addressed to his father in the book "Le marteau pique-cœur" .

He is also the screenwriter of the film “Camping à la ferme” ( Camping on the farm), in which he sets out his vision of a multicultural France.

  • Le Gone du Chaâba , Editions du Seuil, Collection Virgule (1986)
    • German: Azouz, the boy from the outskirts. An Algerian childhood in Lyon , translated by Regina Keil, Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 2001, ISBN 3-407-78449-X
  • Béni ou le Paradis privé , Editions du Seuil, Collection Virgule (1989)
    • German: Almost everywhere: the story of an Algerian boy in France , translated by Regina Keil, Nagel and Kimche, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-312-00523-X
  • With Catherine Louis, Les Voleurs d'écriture , Editions du Seuil, Collection Petit Point, Paris 1990, ISBN 2-02-012400-9
  • La Force du berger , La Joie de Lire (1991) - Awarded the European Children's Book Prize (1993)
    • German: But the earth is round , translated by Ruth Subjetzki, Beltz and Gelberg, Weinheim 1993, ISBN 3-407-78157-1
  • Jordi et le rayon perdu , La Joie de Lire (1992)
  • L'Ilet-aux-Vents , Editions du Seuil, Collection Virgule (1992)
  • Les Tireurs d'étoiles , Editions du Seuil, Collection Petits Points (1993)
  • Le Temps des Villages , La Joie de Lire (1993)
  • Une semaine de vacances à Cap maudit , Editions du Seuil, Collection Petits Points (1993)
  • Mona ou le bateau-livre , Chardon Bleu (1994)
  • Les Chiens aussi , Editions du Seuil, Collection Virgule, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-02-023347-9
  • Quand on est mort, c'est pour toute la vie , Gallimard, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-07-058425-9
  • Ma maman est devenue une étoile , La Joie de Lire (1996)
  • Zenzela , Editions du Seuil, Paris 1997, ISBN
    • German: Zenzela. Novel , translated and provided with a glossary by Nathalie Freund, Picus Verlag, Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-85452-419-6
  • Dis Oualla! Récit , Editions Fayard, Collection Libres, Paris 1997, ISBN 2-213-59702-2
  • Tranches de vie , Klett Verlag (1998)
  • L'ilets-aux-vents , Paris: Le Seuil, 1992
    • German: Insel der Winde , translated and with an afterword by Regina Keil, Unionsverlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-293-20195-4
  • Le théorème de Mamadou , Illustrated Jean Claverie, Editions du Seuil (2002)
  • Un mouton dans la baignoire , Fayard, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-213-63375-6
  • Dite-moi bonjour. Récit , Fayard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-63717-4
  • La lecon di francisse

Awards

  • 1987: Prix Sorcières for Azouz, the boy from the suburbs

Festival participation

Web links

Commons : Azouz Begag  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Azouz Begag - international literature festival berlin. Retrieved March 6, 2017 .
  2. La diversité, c'est mon pays! Interview from Respect Magazine , December 8, 2005
  3. Begag et les criquets ( Memento of June 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Le billet d'Yves Daoudal, National Hebdo, Saint-Cloud, December 16, 2005