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Banine (1931)

Banine is the pseudonym of Umm-El-Banine Assadoulaeff (Umm El-Banu Äsâdullayeva, Əsədullayeva Ümmülbanu Mirzə qızı; born December 18, 1905 in Baku ; died October 23, 1992 in Paris ). She was a French writer of Azerbaijani origin. The autobiographical works Caucasian days and I chose opium became famous in Germany. In France, Banine was considered the "Ambassador of Ernst Jünger ", about whom she wrote three books.

Life

Banine was the daughter of Mirza Assadoulaeff (1875-1936) and Umm El-Banu Nagieff, both fathers Shamsi Assadoulaeff (1840-1913) and Musa Nagieff (1849-1919) had become millionaires through the oil business on the Caspian Sea . Musa Nagieff belonged to the Baha'i religion .

Banine emigrated to Paris in the early 1920s, where her father had already emigrated, who had been Minister for Industry and Trade (December 1918 - April 1920) of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic for a few months . In Constantinople she had left her husband, to whom she - fifteen years old - was married. She made her living as a saleswoman, showing off fashion on the catwalks of Parisian salons. After graduating, she worked as a translator and journalist . She soon had close contacts with the firmly established group of Russian writers in exile. This group and her close friends included the poet Teffi (Nadeschda Lochwizkaja) (1872–1952) and Iwan Bunin (1870–1953), who was the first Russian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature .

During the German occupation , she opened the door to the cultural scene in Paris for Ernst Jünger (1895–1998). The friendship with Jünger lasted until the end of her life. Other friends among the writers such as Kazantzakis , Malraux and Henry de Montherlant urged her to publish her work. After participating in a translation of Jünger, she published three books about him in France ( 1951, 1971 and 1989 ). She even calls a posthumous depiction "Ambassador Ernst Jüngers".

In 1956, the Muslim woman, who recited the first sura of the Koran before every breakfast when she met Ernst Jünger in Antibes , converted to the Catholic faith . She described her hesitation and doubts before this decision in the book J'ai choisi l'Opium , which appeared in 1959.

After the political change, she declined all invitations to return to Azerbaijan.

Works

  • Nami . Gallimard 1942.
  • Jours caucasiens . Julliard 1946.
  • Jours parisiens . Julliard 1947, Gris Banal 2003.
  • Rencontres avec Ernst Jünger . Julliard 1951.
  • J'ai choisi l'opium . Stock 1959.
  • Après . Stock 1962.
  • La France étrangère . SOS Desclée de Brouwer 1968.
  • L'appel de la dernière chance . SOS 1971.
  • Portrait d'Ernst Jünger. Lettres, textes, rencontres . La Table Ronde 1971.
  • Ernst Jünger aux faces multiples . Lausanne 1989.
  • Ce que Marie m'a raconté. Le dit de la Servante Marie . Cahier Bleus 1991.
  • Contributions in: La table ronde. Homage to Ernst Jünger. (Ed. Georges Laffly) La Table Ronde 1976.
German editions
  • Caucasian days . Berlin 1949; Freiburg im Breisgau 2008 (preface by Ernst Jünger).
  • I chose the opium . Graz, Styria 1960 (translated by Grete Steinböck).
Translations (selection)

literature

  • Homage to Umm-el-Banine Assadouleaff. Paris 1995.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The title is an allusion to the statement by Karl Marx that religion is "the opium of the people ".
  2. ↑ Naghiyev - Ismayiliyya Philanthropic Society (accessed May 14, 2018)
  3. ↑ a b 47. Montherlant et l'écrivain Banine (1905-1992) convertie au catholicisme, par Henri de Meeûs . (French, accessed on May 16, 2018)
  4. ↑ Brief biography Banines in: " Répertoire de l'entourage intellectuel et personnel de disciple. »In: Journaux de guerre II. 1939-1948. Gallimard, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade 2008. pp. 1295f.
  5. ↑ Ernst Jünger: From the golden shell: courses on the Mediterranean . Stuttgart 1984. p. 80
  6. ^ William Pfaff : The Bullet's Song: Romantic Violence and Utopia . Simon & Schuster, New York 2004. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-684-80907-6 .
personal data
SURNAME Banine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Äsâdullayeva, Umm El-Banu (real name); Assadoulaeff, Umm-El-Banine; Thillet, Banine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Baku
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1992
Place of death Paris