Blaise Cendrars

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Blaise Cendrars, 1916
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Bust of Blaise Cendrars (ca.1911) by August Suter

Blaise Cendrars (born September 1, 1887 in La Chaux-de-Fonds , Canton of Neuchâtel , † January 21, 1961 in Paris ; real name Frédéric-Louis Sauser ) was a French-speaking Swiss writer and adventurer .

Life

Cendrars was born in 1887 as the son of the businessman Georges Frédéric Sauser and Marie-Louise Sauser, née Dorner, in the watchmaking town of La-Chaux-de-Fonds. He was a younger brother of the future lawyer Georges Sauser (1884-1966).

After a changeable school career in Naples, Italy, and in Switzerland, which brought him together with his lifelong friend August Suter at the “Lower Realschule” in Basel in 1902 , he ran away from home. His travels took him around the world several times; So he lived in the years 1905–1907 as a trade correspondent for a Swiss jeweler in St. Petersburg , where he briefly returned in June 1911 , after having broken off his studies at the University of Bern , and toured Manchuria and the Republic of China . As a young man, he led the life of an adventurer and tried his hand at various professions - among others as a beekeeper , foreign legionnaire and showman .

In 1910 he came to Paris for the first time , but in November 1911 he traveled to New York , where he wrote his first long poem Les Pâques à New York ("Easter in New York"), which he published for the first time under his stage name. In the summer of 1912 he returned to Paris, where he was on friendly terms with, for example, Guillaume Apollinaire , Marc Chagall , Robert and Sonia Delaunay , Fernand Léger , Henry Miller and Amedeo Modigliani . As soon as the First World War broke out in the summer of 1914, Blaise Cendrars volunteered for the French Foreign Legion. He lost his right arm during an attack in Champagne in 1915, but as a Swiss resident in Paris, the young avant-garde poet felt obliged to defend his adopted home against the Germans. Towards the end of World War I, he worked with the film director Abel Gance on his J'accuse (" I complain ") project. Later trips took the writer to Rome (1921), Brazil (1924–1928) and Spain (1931).

Blaise Cendrars was married twice; with Félicie Poznanska, and later with the actress Raymone Duchâteau. From 1950 Cendrars lived in Paris, where he died in 1961. He is buried in the cemetery at Le Tremblay-sur-Mauldre . The high school Lycée Blaise Cendrars named his hometown La Chaux-de-Fonds after him.

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His entire literary work comprises around 40 volumes. The German-language editions - apart from Gold , his novel about Johann August Sutter - were first published by Verlag Karl Rauch , Arche Verlag and later by Lenos Verlag . His estate is in the Swiss Literary Archives in Bern .

Poems

  • Poetry . Rauch, Düsseldorf 1962.
  • Poems I – III . French German. 3 volumes, Arche, Zurich 1976/77/78
  • The prose of the Trans-Siberian Railway and little Jehanne of France . Lenos, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-85787-273-X .
  • I am the other. Collected poems . Lenos, Basel 2004, ISBN 3-85787-347-7 .

prose

  • Gold. The fabulous story of General Johann August Suter ( L'or , 1925). German by Ivan Goll . Rhein, Basel 1925 & Arche, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-7160-2053-2 .
  • Wind of the World ( À l'aventure , 1958). Foreword by Henry Miller . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 1960 & Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1990
  • Little negro tales . Rauch, Düsseldorf 1961.
  • Moloch. The life of the Moravagine . Rauch, Düsseldorf 1961, Arche, Zurich 1987 & as Moravagine. Monster novel : The Other Library , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8477-0352-5 .
  • Madame Thérèse . Novel. Rauch, Düsseldorf 1962.
  • Dan Yack . Rauch, Düsseldorf 1963; Arche, Zurich 1988, ISBN 3-7160-2056-7 .
  • The old port . Autobiographical narratives. Rauch, Düsseldorf 1964; Arche, Zurich 1975.
  • Christmas all over the world ( Noëls aux quatre coins du monde , 1953). Arche, Zurich 1975.
  • Gliding . Stories. Arche, Zurich 1976.
  • Rum. Roman. Arche, Zurich 1977 and 1988, ISBN 3-7160-2078-8 .
  • Run away . Narrative ( Partir , 1952). Lenos, Basel 1987; as paperback 1998, ISBN 3-85787-646-8 .
  • In the hinterland of heaven. To the antipodes of unity. ( L'eubage , 1926). Lenos, Basel 1987, as paperback 1999, ISBN 3-85787-650-6 .
  • Brazil. An encounter ( Le Brésil , 1952). Lenos, Basel 1988, as paperback 2001, ISBN 3-85787-665-4 .
  • John Paul Jones . The story of his youth. Novel fragment. Lenos, Basel 1990, ISBN 3-85787-194-6 .
  • On all seas. ( Bourlinguer , 1948) Lenos, Basel 1998, ISBN 3-85787-274-8 , as paperback 2008, ISBN 978-3-85787-714-8 .
  • At the microphone. Conversations with Michel Manoll. ( Blaise Cendrars vous parle ... 1952) Lenos, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-85787-283-7 .
  • The signature of the fire. ( L'homme foudroyé , 1945) Lenos, Basel 2000, ISBN 3-85787-300-0 .
    • Partial edition as: Gypsy Rhapsodies . Karl Rauch, Düsseldorf 1963
      • Excerpt from it: The mother. Dialog. Vendetta. Goldmann, Munich 1965 pp. 176-196.
  • Travel in reverse. Two poets traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway (with Kurt Drawert ). Arche, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-7160-2282-9 .
  • The red lily ( La main coupée , 1946). Lenos, Basel 2002, ISBN 3-85787-327-2 .
  • Rhapsody of the night (Le lotissement du ciel, 1949). Lenos, Basel 2008, ISBN 978-3-85787-383-6 .
    • Selection in: The new patron saint of aviators. Report and praise . Arche, Zurich 1980.
    • Partial edition as: Eiffel Tower constellation . Arche, Zurich 1982
  • Run away narrative. Illustrations by Harald Häuser . Molokoprint Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-943603-23-1 .

Radio plays

  • Radio plays. Movies without pictures . Rauch, Düsseldorf 1965.

Film adaptations

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literature

  • Peter Burri (Ed.): Discovering Cendrars. His writing, his work in the mirror of the present . Lenos, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-85787-152-0 .
  • Miriam Cendrars: Blaise Cendrars. A biography ("Blaise Cendrars"). Lenos, Basel 1986, ISBN 3-85787-151-2 .
  • Jeroen Dewulf: Brazil with breaks. Swiss under the Southern Cross . NZZ, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-03823-349-7 .
  • Jürg Federspiel: Melancolia Americana . Limmat, Zurich 1994, ISBN 3-879791-225-1 .
  • Jean-Carlo Flückiger (Ed.): Blaise Cendrars. A kaleidoscope in texts and pictures . Lenos, Basel 1999, ISBN 3-85787-288-8 (catalog of the Blaise Cendrars exhibition , “Je suis l'autre” from September 15 to December 12, 1999).
  • Christine Le Quellec Cottier: Blaise Cendrars. Un homme en partance . UP, Lausanne 2010, ISBN 978-2-88074-875-3 .
  • Nelly Mareine: Henri Miller , Blaise Cendrars. Deux âmes sœurs . L'Harmattan, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-296-09943-2 .
  • Manfred Prinz: The motif of the journey in the early work of Blaise Cendrars (1910–1929) . Librairie Droz, Geneva 1985 (also dissertation, University of Cologne 1984).
  • Jan Volker Röhnert : Jumping thoughts and flickering images. Poetry in the age of cinematography. Cendrars, Ashbery , Brinkmann . Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0215-0 . (also dissertation, University of Jena 2007)
  • Laurence Campa: Album Cendrars. Iconography. Gallimard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-0-7013-4310-1 .

Web links

Commons : Blaise Cendrars  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Jean-Carlo Flückiger: Blaise Cendrars. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . July 5, 2005, accessed May 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Overall title: Adalbert Keil (Hrsg.): Die Prophezeiung. Gypsy stories. (= Goldmann's Yellow TB # 1622 ). Munich 1965. (anthology, first with Kurt Desch, ibid. 1964)
personal data
SURNAME Cendrars, Blaise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sauser, Frédéric-Louis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH La Chaux-de-Fonds , Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1961
Place of death Paris , France