Colette Audry

Colette Audry (born July 6, 1906 in Orange , † October 20, 1990 in Issy-les-Moulineaux ) was a French writer , dramaturge and screenwriter .

Life

Colette Audry was the great niece of French President Gaston Doumergue . She was first Agrégé de lettres and initially taught between 1930 and 1936 at the Lycée Jeanne d'Arc in Rouen , where she met Simone de Beauvoir in the teaching staff . Before going public as a writer of novels, screenplays and dramas, she was a high school teacher at the Lycée Molière in Paris . From 1939 until the divorce in 1945 she was married to the literary scholar Robert Minder , with whom she had a son. Together with her husband at the time, she supported the writer Alfred Döblin in 1940 while he was fleeing through southwest France from the approaching German troops.

Between 1945 and 1955, Colette Audry worked for Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Temps Modernes magazine . As a screenwriter she worked with René Clément ( La bataille du rail , 1946) and with her sister Jacqueline Audry ( Les Malheurs de Sophie , 1946 and Fruits amers , 1967). For the novel Derrière la baignoire (Behind the Bathtub) she received the Prix Médicis in 1962 . The story The train was punctual by Heinrich Böll , Colette Audry translated into French in 1954.

As a politician, she represented socialist and feminist positions and was a. a. Collaborator of François Mitterrand .

literature

Alfred Döblin: Journey of Fate. Report and confession . Edited in association with the poet's sons by Anthony W. Riley. dtv, Munich 1996. ISBN 978-3423122252

Web links

Literature by and about Colette Audry in the catalog of the German National Library

References and comments

↑ “ She was a strong young woman who didn't mind exertion. [...] She was the only one in our car who was properly equipped for the big tour. She owned several blankets, which she gave to her husband and me, still had her sleeping bag, and she had plenty of food and canned food. The existence of such people was of the utmost importance to the whole car. Most of us were just old peacetime pedestrians. We therefore lived with her parasitically, as an appendage. “From: Alfred Döblin: Destiny Journey . Munich 1996, p. 49.
↑ Le Train était à l'heure . Les Editions Denoël, Paris 1954

personal data
SURNAME	Audry, Colette
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French writer, dramaturge and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH	orange
DATE OF DEATH	October 20, 1990
Place of death	Paris

[1] “ She was a strong young woman who didn't mind exertion. [...] She was the only one in our car who was properly equipped for the big tour. She owned several blankets, which she gave to her husband and me, still had her sleeping bag, and she had plenty of food and canned food. The existence of such people was of the utmost importance to the whole car. Most of us were just old peacetime pedestrians. We therefore lived with her parasitically, as an appendage. “From: Alfred Döblin: Destiny Journey . Munich 1996, p. 49.

[2] Le Train était à l'heure . Les Editions Denoël, Paris 1954