Bettina de Cosnac

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Bettina de Cosnac (* 1960 in Berlin ) is a German - French journalist and author.

Life

Born in Berlin, she studied French , English and comparative literature at the Technical University of Berlin and as a scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Université François Rabelais in Tours . In 1988 she received her dissertation at the Technical University of Berlin on Das Café-théâtre as a cultural document of the times. History, genre, reception for Dr. phil. PhD .

Before and during her doctorate, she worked as a freelance journalist for various print media and television stations in Germany and France. She has lived in Paris since 1995 and worked from there initially for the ZDF studio Western Europe, then as a freelance France correspondent for Deutsche Welle-TV, among others . She also works for television as a consultant and interview partner for a number of ZDF documentaries and programs, mainly about the Principality of Monaco and the Grimaldi family . Most recently in 2016.

Since 2000 she has also emerged as an author of books in German and French . Her biographies of the Princely Family of Monaco (2002) and the German entrepreneurial family Riegel (2003) received great attention from the public and critics . In 2008, on the occasion of her 100th birthday, she presented the first biography of Gisèle Freund . Bettina de Cosnac met the important Franco-German photographer, who died in 2000, in Berlin in 1988 during an interview and in other meetings.

Bettina de Cosnac also held teaching positions at CELSA, a journalism and communication college affiliated with the Sorbonne , from 2005-2015.

In 2011 she received a grant as Artist in Residence at La Roche-Guyon Castle (Val d'Oise), which she used to work on a musical production of Le Désert de Retz - Carnet de voyage .

In 2012, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Franco-German Elysée Treaty, she founded Monumentum Nostrum, the first Franco-German park, garden and monument magazine. The online magazine, of which she has remained the publisher and editor-in-chief to this day, is dedicated to the preservation of monuments in France and Germany.

In 2016 she received the European Garden Book Award at Schloss Dennenlohe for the horticultural biography "Jardins d'Histoire et sans histoire ..." written in French by an American living in France, a special prize for the originality of the idea, work and style.

Bettina de Cosnac lives with her family in Germany and France. She is a member of the French nobility association ANF for charity.

Fonts

Biographies
  • The Monaco clan. History and Present of the Grimaldis , Europa-Verlag, Hamburg and Vienna 2002 (Updated paperback edition: The Grimaldis. History and Present of the Princely Family of Monaco , Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2007, ISBN 978-3-404-61620-6 or ISBN 3- 404-61620-0 )
  • A bear goes around the world: Haribo - from candy maker to king of gummy bears. A German family saga , Europa Verlag, Hamburg and Vienna 2003 ( ISBN 3-203-77521-2 )
  • The latch. The history of the cult brand HARIBO and its founding family , Lübbe Verlag, Bergisch Gladbach 2006 ( ISBN 978-3-404-61584-1 or ISBN 3-404-61584-0 )
  • Gisèle friend. Ein Leben , Arche Verlag, Hamburg and Zurich 2008 ( ISBN 978-3-7160-2382-2 )
  • Jardins d'Histoire et sans histoire ... de la Comtesse de La Panouse , Editions Monelle Hayot, Château de Saint-Rémy-en-l'Eau 2014 ( ISBN 978-2-903824-87-7 ) (European Garden Book Award , Special award 2016)
  • "Marie-Curie. One who researched for her life", Verlag Down-to-Earth, Berlin 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-86270-867-3 )
  • "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. One who taught to see", Verlag Down-to-Earth, Berlin 2015 ( ISBN 978-3-86270-916-8 )
  • "Yehudi Menuhin. One who made music for peace", Verlag Down-to-Earth, Berlin 2016 ( ISBN 978-3-86270-936-6 )
  • "Perfume. Women in the world of fragrances.", With photographs by R. Antonoff. Verlag Busse / Seewald, Stuttgart 2017 ( ISBN 978-3-7724-7449-1 )
theatre
  • Franz Liszt - Rhapsodie d'une vie , world premiere, Festival 1001 Notes, 2011 (France)
Coffee table books / culture books
  • Reading tour Paris. The perfume of a city. , Picus Verlag, Vienna 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-7117-1087-1 )
  • The marquise invites you to table. Table pleasures in French castles , Gerstenberg Verlag, Hildesheim 2012 ( ISBN 978-3-8369-2650-8 )
  • Le Désert de Retz - carnet de voyage , with illustrations by C. Lesgourgues, Paris 2009 ( ISBN 978-2-35532-060-6 ) (music theater play, 2010)
  • Three-country chat. Cultural guide for everyday border traffic , with D. Krämer-Anderson and S. Stamer, rororo, Reinbek near Hamburg 2009 ( ISBN 978-3-499-62488-9 )
  • Hans Joachim Kruse: Paris. Traveling with insider tips , Marco Polo, update for the 14th edition, Ostfildern 2002 ( ISBN 3-8297-0164-0 )
  • Bio, mode d'emploi , with Cécile Le Cardinal, Hachette / Marabout 2001 ( ISBN 2-501-03372-8 )
Other fonts
  • Chambord heavy woman. Beautiful relatives - Une belle famille , ed. With S. Völzer, Steffen Verlag, Friedland / Berlin 2018 ( ISBN 978-3-941681-38-5 )
  • The café-théâtre as a cultural document of the times. History, genre, reception , dissertation, Berlin 1988 (in print as Volume 3 of the series Forum modern Theater , Tübingen 1990, ISBN 3-8233-4021-2 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Portrait of the author at the Aenne Glienke agency ( memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Katja Klüßendorf: Pioneer of Photography. Gisèle Freund had the great artists and thinkers of the 20th century put them in the limelight . In: Junge Welt from June 12, 2009
  3. Monumentum Nostrum
  4. ANF