Benoîte Groult
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Les trois quarts du temps. 1983
- Übers. Irène Kuhn I want life . Novel. Knaur, Munich 1983 ISBN 3-426-71107-9
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Les vaisseaux du coeur. 1988
- Translator Irène Kuhn: Salt on our skin . Novel. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989 ISBN 978-3-426-19251-1 ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list from 1989 to 1991 )
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Pauline Roland ou Comment la liberté vint aux femmes. 1991
- Translated by Kirsten Ruhland-Stephan: How freedom came to women. The life of Pauline Roland . Knaur, Munich 1992 ISBN 3-426-61473-1
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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.
- Übers. Irène Kuhn: Life means being free . Knaur, Munich 1998 ISBN 3-426-61455-3
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La touch étoile. 2006
- Translator Barbara Scriba-Sethe: Salt of Life . Novel. Berlin Verlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3-8333-0539-9
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Mon évasion. Grasset, Paris 2008
- Übers. Barbara Scriba-Sethe, Irène Kuhn: My Liberation . Autobiography. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2009 ISBN 978-3-8333-0709-6 ; again Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag btv, Berlin 2011 ISBN 978-3-8333-0709-6
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
- Salt on our skin . Read by Suzanne von Borsody . O.Skar, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-938389-37-9 (heavily abbreviated version, 3 CDs)
- Salt of life . Read by Angelika Bartsch . The Audio Verlag , Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89813-620-4 (4 CDs, 310 min.)
literature
- Dietrich Gronau: Benoite Groult. The author of the world success. Heyne, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-453-07909-4 .
- Florence Hervé : Benoîte Groult: “Salt of Freedom”. Biography . Econ & List, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-612-26578-4 .
- Bettina Flitner : women with visions - 48 Europeans . With texts by Alice Schwarzer . Knesebeck, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-89660-211-X , pp. 100-103.
Web links
- Literature by and about Benoîte Groult in the catalog of the German National Library
- Benoîte Groult in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maxi linen purchase: Do you find string thongs comfortable? Interview about getting old, in Tagesspiegel , May 6, 2007
- Maxi Leinkauf: I have a dream: “One day I'll wake up and I'm not old” . Zeitmagazin 5/2010, January 28, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ "Salt on our skin": Author Benoîte Groult has died . Spiegel Online , June 21, 2016, accessed June 21, 2016.
- ↑ Benoîte Groult: Salt on our skin . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1989, second cover page.
- ↑ Angélique Negroni: Légion d'honneur: la promotion de Pâques. lefigaro.fr, April 5, 2010, accessed June 21, 2016
- ↑ Dates of life: March 20, 1939 - March 5, 2015
personal data | |
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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 |