Edmond Tranin

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Edmond Paul Joseph Tranin (* 1895 in Marle ; † in the 20th century ) was a French journalist .

Life

Edmond Tranin came from Marle in northern France. He married Claude Téry, ​​a daughter of the prominent journalist couple Gustave Téry and Andrée Viollis . Tranin worked as a journalist for the Paris daily Le Petit Parisien in the 1920s . When he was traveling in an airship with two other men in 1923 , he had to land in Ennigerloh in the German Reich because of a storm . Due to the hostile reaction of the local population, the men were placed under German police protection for five days before they were able to return to France.

For the Petit Parisien , Edmond Tranin undertook the Tranin-Duverne mission, which lasted several months, from 1924 to 1925 . It was the first west-east crossing of Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea by motor vehicle . Tranins travel companion was Gustave Duverne , a fighter pilot of the First World War . The expedition was financed by the automobile manufacturer Rolland-Pilain . After his return, Tranin reported on his trip in the Petit Parisien and gave a lecture at the Société de Géographie . He was honored as a Knight of the Legion of Honor for his achievement in 1925 . His detailed travel description of the Tranin-Duverne mission was published in book form in 1926 under the title Sur le dixième parallèle . The popular reporter Tranin is said to have been a role model for the fictional reporter Tintin , the title hero of the comic series by Hergé first published in 1929 . In the album Tintin au Congo, Tintin is also on the road in Africa in an automobile.

Edmond Tranin subsequently made a name for himself with political texts. In 1928 he published an article in Grautoff's Deutsch-Französischer Rundschau in which he advocated colonial cooperation between the German Empire and France. In 1931 the magazine Vu published his critical report from the Soviet Union on political prisoners deported to Siberia . In his youth novel, written together with Georges Le Fèvre , On the Trail of Douha , Tranin described the journey of youthful heroes across Africa. The novel, which is largely kept in a documentary-encyclopedic tone, reflects the realignment of French colonialism since the Brazzaville Conference , even if the paternalistic undertones are unmistakable. In 1953 produced the short documentary Les Forceurs de banquise about icebreakers in the Baltic Sea , Tranin was responsible for the concept and direction.

He settled in the municipality of Pléneuf-Val-André in Brittany , where he became a member of the municipal council and campaigned for the local tidal island Îlot du Verdelet to be declared a bird sanctuary in 1973.

Works (selection)

  • Sur le dixième parallèle . Bernard Grasset, Paris 1926.
  • The rouliers de la mer . With a foreword by Georges Leygues . Payot, Paris 1928.
  • Colonial cooperation between Germany and France . In: German-French Rundschau . tape 1 , no. 2 , 1928, p. 689 f .
  • with Georges Le Fèvre: In the footsteps of the Douha. An adventurous story . With illustrations by Emil Bröckl. Ueberreuter, Vienna 1950 (French: Cap sur l'Afrique . Paris 1947. Translated by Doris Hofmann, original with illustrations by Albert Brenet ).
  • Suomi ... ou la terre des eaux (=  La Revue française . No. 50 ). Imprimerie de la Renaissance, Paris 1953.
  • Ouagadougou, témoignage de vitalité de la Haute-Volta . In: France Outre-mer . No. 307 , June 1955, p. 30-31, 42 .
  • Les grandes cités et l'évolution politique et sociale des Africains . In: France Outre-mer . No. 307 , June 1955, p. 38-41 .

literature

  • Fabienne Castagna: Mythe et réalité du grand reportage. La mission Tranin-Duverne, première liaison automobile de Conakry à Djibouti, November 1st 1924 - April 9th ​​1925 . Mémoire de maîtrise. Université de Poitiers, Poitiers 1991.
  • Gustave Duverne: De l'Atlantique à l'Océan indien (Konakry – Djibouti) avec la mission Tranin-Duverne, November 1st 1924- April 9th ​​1925 . With a foreword by Antonin Brocard and woodcuts by Marcel Arthaud. Gianoli et Valentin, Paris 1926.
  • Henry Vallotton : L'Auto dans la brousse. Notes d'un voyage en Afrique occidentale . Fischbacher, Paris 1925.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ L'explorateur Tranin acclamé par ses concitoyens . In: Le Petit Parisien . April 25, 1925, bpt6k6060967, p. 3 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Anne Renoult: Andrée Viollis. Une femme journalist . Presses de l'Université d'Angers, Angers 2004, ISBN 2-915751-02-1 , pp. 177 .
  3. ^ Coup d'Ailes . In: Les Ailes. Journal hebdomadaire de la locomotion aérienne . No. 119 , September 27, 1923, bpt6k96073845, p. 2 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b Mélodie Simard-Houde: Le "flou" comme clef de la fabulation. L'identité professionnelle du reporter et l'invention d'un héros romanesque (1870–1939). In: Les journalistes: identités et modernités. Actes du premier congrès Médias 19 (Paris, 8–12 June 2015). April 11, 2017, accessed January 12, 2019 (French).
  5. ↑ Un raid merveilleux. Sur une automobile de série, Tranin et Duverne traversent l'Afrique de l'Atlantique à la Mer Rouge . In: Le Monde Colonial Illustré . No. April 19 , 1925, bpt6k9742831j, p. 87 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  6. ^ Journal officiel de la République française . August 15, 1930, bpt6k65425478, p. 9514 ( digitized from Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  7. ^ Bulletin officiel du Ministère des colonies . 1925, bpt6k5510579k, p. 1253 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  8. ^ Louis Payen: Carnet des Lettres . In: La Presse . January 20, 1926, bpt6k602080h, p. 2 ( digitized on Gallica [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Alain Sulmon: Pourquoi parler français (15)? Institute of Sainte-Marcelline. Ecole française de Lausanne-Valmont, accessed on January 12, 2019 (French).
  10. ↑ 185th Session. Friday June 27, 1930 . In: Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the Reichstag . No. 1928 / 30.6 , p. 5921 ( reichstagsprotlog.de [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  11. ↑ Danielle Leenaerts: Petite histoire du magazine Vu (1928–1940). Entre photographie d'information et photographie d'art . PIE Peter Lang, Brussels 2010, ISBN 978-90-5201-585-9 , pp. 229-230 .
  12. ^ Jacqueline Beaujeu-Garnier: Georges Le Fevre et Edmond Tranin, Cap sur l'Afrique, 1947 . Book review. In: L'Information Géographique . Vol. 12, No. 2 , 1948, p. 84 ( persee.fr [accessed January 12, 2019]).
  13. ↑ Cap sur l'Afrique [roman d'aventures]. In: Mukanda. Resources documentaires sur l'Afrique centrale. Université de Lorraine, accessed January 12, 2019 (French).
  14. ↑ Les Forceurs de banquise. In: filmportal.de . Retrieved January 12, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Pléneuf-Val-André, Verdelet (le). Poste d'observation. Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles de Bretagne / Service Régional de l'Inventaire) / Conseil général des Côtes-d'Armor, 2003, accessed on January 12, 2019 (French).
  16. ↑ Percer les mystères ornithologiques you Verdelet. In: Le Télégramme. August 7, 2002, accessed January 12, 2019 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Tranin, Edmond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tranin, Edmond Paul Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Marle
DATE OF DEATH 20th century