Benoîte Groult

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Benoîte Groult (2010)

Benoîte Groult (born January 31, 1920 in Paris , † June 20, 2016 in Hyères ) was a French journalist , feminist and writer . Her best-known work is the novel Salt on Our Skin .

Life

The daughter of the fashion designer Nicole Poiret (1887–1967) and the interior designer André Groult (1884–1966), who is known in France, grew up in the Parisian upper class. In 1943 she completed during the German occupation the study of literature with the Professeur de lettres . She first worked as a teacher, then until 1953 as a journalist for the then still public television broadcaster RTF . Between 1962 and 1968 she wrote three works with her younger sister Flora (1924–2001). Benoîte Groult's first novel La part des choses was published in 1972.

In March 1944 she married the medical student Pierre Heuyer, who died of tuberculosis eight months after the marriage . From 1946 to 1950 she was married to the French journalist Georges de Caunes (1919-2004). The marriage resulted in two daughters, born in 1946 and 1948. In 1951 she married the writer Paul Guimard (1921-2004), with whom she also had a daughter.

In 2010 she was appointed Commander of the Legion of Honor .

reception

Groult primarily wrote texts on the history of feminism , discrimination against women and the aversion of men towards women ( misogyny ), which were prepared in a socio-psychological and historical manner and in essayistic form .

In France, her revealing novel Salt on Our Skin (1988) was first considered a pornographic scandal book; the attention it attracted, however, made Groult well-known and with her other publications she was recognized throughout Europe as an important feminist. In Germany, salt on our skin , the story of an unusual passion between a Parisian intellectual and a down-to-earth Breton fisherman, became a bestseller with more than three million copies sold . In 1992 the novel by Andrew Birkin was filmed under the same title ; one of the producers was Bernd Eichinger .

Works

Sole author

  • La part des choses. Grasset, Paris 1972.
    • Übers. Mauki Venjakob: Things as they are . Novel. Zsolnay, Vienna 1979; Knaur, Munich 1999 ISBN 3-426-62031-6
  • Ainsi soit-elle. Grasset, Paris 1975
    • Übers. Marita Heinz: Oedipus' sister. Wrath about the power of men over women . Knaur, Munich 1985 ISBN 3-426-08020-6
  • Le feminisme au masculin. 1977
    • Übers. Gabriele Krüger-Wirrer: Equals among equals. Men on the question of women . Knaur, Munich 1995 ISBN 3-426-65046-0
  • La moitié de la terre. 1981.
    • Übers. Gabriele Krüger-Wirrer: Half of the Earth. Essays on the question of women . Knaur, Munich 1994 ISBN 3-426-65024-X
  • Les trois quarts du temps. 1983
  • Les vaisseaux du coeur. 1988
  • Pauline Roland ou Comment la liberté vint aux femmes. 1991
  • Cette mâle assurance. 1993
    • Übers. Sabine Schwank: An animal with long hair. Images of women, sayings of men . Knaur, Munich 1996 ISBN 3-426-65064-9
  • with Josyane Savigneau: Histoire d'une évasion. 1997.
  • La touch étoile. 2006
  • Mon évasion. Grasset, Paris 2008

Co-author with Flora Groult

  • 1962: Journal à quatre mains. Denoel, Paris
    • German edition: Diary four hands. A Chronique intime (translated by Ruth Uecker-Lutz and Brigitte Kahr). List, Munich 1965; as paperback: Knaur 2997, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-02997-9 .
  • 1965: Le Féminin pluriel. Denoel, Paris
    • German edition: Juliette and Marianne. Two diaries of one love (translated by Karin Reese), Desch, Munich 1966; as paperback: Knaur 60082, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-426-60082-X (together with Das Haus auf dem Lande. by Fay Weldon and translated by Sybille Koch-Grünberg).
  • 1968: Il était deux fois. Denoel, Paris
    • German edition: It was twice (translated by Gabriele Krüger-Wirrer). Droemer Knaur, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-426-65034-7 .

Audio books

literature

Web links

Commons : Benoîte Groult  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Salt on our skin": Author Benoîte Groult has died . Spiegel Online , June 21, 2016, accessed June 21, 2016.
  2. ↑ Benoîte Groult: Salt on our skin . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, second cover page.
  3. ↑ Angélique Negroni: Légion d'honneur: la promotion de Pâques. lefigaro.fr, April 5, 2010, accessed June 21, 2016
  4. ↑ Dates of life: March 20, 1939 - March 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Groult, Benoîte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 20th June 2016
Place of death Hyeres