Claude Anet
Claude Anet (born May 28, 1868 in Morges , † January 9, 1931 in Paris ; real name Jean Schopfer ) was a French writer and tennis player of Swiss origin.
Life
Anet studied philosophy at the Sorbonne . From 1888 he worked as a representative for an American company in Paris. He traveled through Italy, Iran and Russia by bike and by car . He wrote travel reports about his experiences. He experienced the Russian Revolution as an eyewitness.
He became known through travel literature , novels and plays. His travelogues from Iran or Russia in the phase of the revolution achieved popularity and were also expressed as the background of his novels and stories, which took place either in the French provinces or in Russia.
As a tennis player, Anet won the French tennis championships in Paris in 1892 and reached the final the following year.
Works (selection)
- Fiction
- 1899: Voyage idéal en Italie .
- 1901: Petite ville .
- German edition: small town. Love stories from the provinces . Weller, Leipzig 1927.
- 1904: Les bergeries . Calman-Lévy, Paris.
- 1906: La perse en automobile .
- 1920: Ariane, jeune fille russe .
- German edition: Ariane, love in the afternoon . Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1979, ISBN 3-499-14230-9
- 1922: L'amour en Russie .
- German edition: Russian women . Novellas. Weller, Leipzig 1926.
- 1927: Under the spell of Asia . Novel. ("La rive d'Asie"). Weller, Leipzig.
- 1927: The divine Suzanne . ("Suzanne Lenglen"). World books, Berlin.
- 1928: the end of a world . Novel. ("La fin d'un monde"). Translated from the French by Georg Schwarz . People's Association of Book Friends , Berlin
- Reprint: Greifen, Rudolstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-89793-197-8
- 1930: When the earth shook ... Lydia Sergievna. Roman ("Quand la terre trembla"). Ullstein, Berlin.
- 1930: Mayerling. Roman ("Mayerling"). Valley, Leipzig.
- Non-fiction
- 2007: La révolution russse. Chronique 1917-1920 . Edition Phébus, Paris ISBN 978-2-7529-0308-2 .
Film adaptations
- 1930: Ariane - director: Paul Czinner
- 1936: Mayerling - Director: Anatole Litvak
- 1957: Ariane - love in the afternoon
- 1968: Mayerling - Director: Terence Young
Web links
- Literature by and about Claude Anet in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Claude Anet in the German Digital Library
- Works by Claude Anet in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Claude Anet in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Claude Anet in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Claude Anet at Open Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anet, Claude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schopfer, Jean (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer and tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Morges |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1931 |
| Place of death | Paris |