Hélène Cixous

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Hélène Cixous (born June 5, 1937 in Oran , Algeria ) is a French writer. She is considered a women's rights activist and post-structuralist . She is the holder of the French National Order of Merit .

Life

Hélène Cixous is Jewish. Her Ashkenazi grandmother was born in Osnabrück in 1882 , her mother Eva Klein (1910–2013) also in Osnabrück. Her mother went to Brighton in 1930, then to Paris, where she married the Sephardic radiologist Georges Cixous (1909–1948) and went with him to Oran in Algeria, which was then under French rule. After the father's death, the mother worked as a midwife in Algiers. It wasn't until 1971 that Eve Cixous went to Paris.

In 1955, Hélène Cixous Algeria came to France, where she passed her agrégation in 1959 . After holding positions as maître de conférences at various universities in Bordeaux and Paris, she completed her doctorate in 1968 with the work L'exile de James Joyce ou l'art du remplacement . As a result of the student protests, she and others founded the experimental study center in Vincennes (now Paris VIII Saint-Denis University ), where she taught from then on. In 1974 she founded the Center d'études Féminines (today: Center d'études féminines et d'études de genre) - the first of its kind in Europe.

Her works include novels, plays, and poetry. Central themes of her writings are psychoanalysis, dreams, mythology, identity, love, death, masculinity, femininity, writing, writing and the body.

She also pursued these topics in her research groups at the university, which also deal with aspects of the imaginary, the female body, the expression and connection between drive economy and political economy as well as the analysis and practice of writing and feminine writing .

Cixous was a lifelong friend of Jacques Derrida , with whom she shared the memory of an Algerian childhood and with whom she was in a lively exchange.

Works

fiction
  • Le Prénom de Dieu (Grasset, 1967)
  • Dedans. (Grasset, 1969)
    • German: inside . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt 1971
  • Le Troisième Corps (Grasset, 1970)
  • Les Commencements (Grasset, 1970)
  • Neutre (Grasset, 1972)
  • Tombe (Seuil, 1973, 2008)
  • Portrait du Soleil (Denoël, 1974)
  • Revolutions pour plus d'un Faust (Seuil, 1975)
  • Souffles (Des femmes, 1975)
  • La (Gallimard, 1976)
  • Fear (Des Femmes, 1977)
  • Anankè (Des femmes, 1979)
  • Illa (Des femmes, 1980)
  • Le Livre de Prométhéa (Gallimard, 1983)
  • L'ange au secret (Des femmes, 1990)
    • German partial translation: Someone killed Ingeborg Bachmann . Erwin Rauner, Augsburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-936905-39-7 (original title: Il ya quelqu'un qui a tué Ingeborg Bachmann . Translated by Herbert Rauner).
  • Déluge (Des femmes, 1992)
  • Beethoven à jamais ou l'Existence de Dieu (Des femmes, 1993)
  • La Fiancée juive de la tentation (Des femmes, 1995)
  • Osnabrück. (Des femmes, 1999);
    • German: Osnabrück. Passagen, Vienna 2017
  • Le Jour où je n'étais pas là (Galilée, 2000)
  • Les Rêveries de la femme sauvage (Galilée, 2000)
  • Manhattan (Galilée, 2002)
    • German: Manhattan . Passages, Vienna 2010
  • Tours promises (Galilée, 2004)
  • Rencontre terrestre . With Frédéric-Yves Jeannet. (Galilée, 2005)
  • Hyperrêve. (Galilée, 2006)
  • Si près. (Galilée, 2007)
  • Cigüe: vieilles femmes en fleurs. (Galilée, 2008)
  • Philippines: prédelles. (Galilée, 2009)
  • Ève s'évade. La ruine et la vie. (Galilée, 2009)
  • Double Oubli de l'Orang-Outang . (Galilée, 2010)
  • Homère est morte ... (Galilée, 2014)
    • Translator Claudia Simma: My Homère is dead ... Passagen, Vienna 2019
Essays and Ä.
  • L'exile de James Joyce or the art of remplacement . (Grasset, 1968)
  • Prénoms de Personne . (Seuil, 1974)
  • Le Rire de la Méduse . (L'Arc, 1975; again Galilée, 2010)
    • German: Medusa's laughter . With further current articles. Ed. Esther Hutfless, Gertrude Postl, Elisabeth Schäfer. Passagen, Vienna 2013, ISBN 978-3-7092-0049-0
  • La Jeune Née . (UGE, 1975)
  • La Venue à l'écriture . (UGE, 1977)
  • The infinite circulation of desire . Merve, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-920986-90-3
  • Femininity in Scripture . Merve, Berlin 1980, ISBN 3-88396-014-4
  • Entre l'écriture . (Des femmes, 1986)
  • L'Heure de Clarisse Lispector . (Des femmes, 1989)
  • Hélène Cixous, photos de racines . With Mireille Calle-Gruber . (Des femmes, 1994)
  • Voiles . With Jacques Derrida. (Galilée, 1998)
  • Stigmata . (Routledge, London 1998) ISBN 0-415-34545-6
  • Portrait de Jacques Derrida en jeune saint juif . (Galilée, 2001)
  • Benjamin à Montaigne . Il ne faut pas le dire (Galilée, 2001)
  • Le Voisin de Zéro. Sam Beckett . (Galilée, 2007)
  • Insister. À Jacques Derrida. (Galilée, 2006)
    • German: Insister. For Jacques Derrida. Passagen, Vienna 2014
  • Say what is unsaid. Four conversations with Peter Engelmann . Passagen, Vienna 2017
  • Writings on Art I , trans. Esther von der Osten, Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95757-555-5 .
theatre
  • La pupil . (Cahiers Renaud-Barrault, 1971)
  • Portrait de Dora . (Des femmes, 1975)
  • La Prize de l'école de Madhubaï . (Avant-Scène, 1984)
  • L'Histoire terrible mais inachevée de Norodom Sihanouk , roi du Cambodge ( Théâtre du Soleil , 1985; nouvelle édition corrigée 1987)
    • dt. The terrible but unfinished story of Norodom Sihanouk, King of Cambodia . Prometh, Cologne 1988, ISBN 3-922009-90-5
  • L'Indiade, ou l'Inde de leurs rêves, et quelques écrits sur le théâtre . (Théâtre du Soleil, 1987)
  • Les Euménides d' Eschyle . Traduction (Théâtre du Soleil, 1992)
  • La Ville parjure ou le réveil des Erinyes (Théâtre du Soleil, 1994)
  • Et soudain, des nuits d'éveil . (Théâtre du Soleil, 1997)
  • Tambours sur la digue , sous forme de pièce ancienne pour marionnettes jouée par des acteurs (Théâtre du Soleil, 1999)
  • Rouen, la Trentième Nuit de Mai '31 . (Galilée, 2001)
  • Les naufragés du fol espoir . (Théâtre du soleil, 2010)

Awards

  • 2010: Prix du Syndicat de la critique
  • 2014: Prix Marguerite Duras
  • 2014: Prix de la langue française
  • 2016: Prix Marguerite Yourcenar
  • 2018: Prix du Théâtre, Justus Möser Medal of the City of Osnabrück

literature

  • Brigitte Heymann: Text form and female self-image. The novels by Hélène Cixous and Chantal Chawaf . Deutscher Studienverlag, Weinheim 1991, ISBN 3-89271-289-1 (dissertation)
  • Verena Andermatt Conley: Hélène Cixous . University of Toronto Press, Buffalo 1992, ISBN 0-8020-2879-9
  • Leo Truchlar: Hélène Cixous: Vivre l'orange / To live the Orange. In: Leo Truchlar: About literature and other arts. Böhlau, Vienna 2000, p. 71ff.
  • Jacques Derrida: Geneses, Genealogies, Genres and the Genius. The secret of the archive . Passagen Verlag , Vienna 2006, ISBN 978-3-85165-746-3
  • Jacques Derrida: HC for life, that is ... . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85165-760-9
  • Elisabeth Schäfer: The open side of the font. JD and HC Côte à Côte . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-85165-865-1

Web links

Commons : Hélène Cixous  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Her mother Eve Klein came from Osnabrück.
  2. ↑ Historique du département d'études de genre - Université Paris 8. Accessed December 13, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Telerama.fr ( Memento of the original from August 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Eve was her mother.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.telerama.fr
  4. ^ Double Oubli de l'Orang-Outang. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  5. ↑ In the conversations, which were published for the first time, topics from Cixous' works come to life: for example, her childhood during the Second World War in Algeria, where, with her grandmother who fled to Oran from the Germans, "Osnabrück" lives on as a fantasy city for her. Cixous shared her Algerian childhood with Derrida, with whom she had a lively exchange in Paris. Cixous' biography, her relationship with Derrida and her political engagement are leitmotifs of the band.
  6. ↑ Armelle Héliot: Les prix du Syndicat de la critique, théâtre, musique, danse. Retrieved December 13, 2018 (French).
  7. ^ Littérature à Trouville: Hélène Cixous remporte le prix Duras. Retrieved December 13, 2018 (French).
  8. ↑ Le Point magazine: Littérature: le Prix de la langue française 2014 attribué à Hélène Cixous. October 14, 2014, accessed December 13, 2018 (French).
  9. ↑ Hélène Cixous reçoit le Prix Marguerite Yourcenar 2016. Accessed December 13, 2018 (French).
  10. ↑ Hélène CIXOUS | Académie française. Retrieved December 13, 2018 .
  11. ^ Anne Reinert: The Justus Möser Medal goes to France , noz.de, April 13, 2018, accessed on April 16, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Cixous, Hélène
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Oran , Algeria