Eric Vuillard

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Eric Vuillard (2014)

Éric Vuillard (born May 4, 1968 in Lyon , France ) is a French author and filmmaker who won the Prix ​​Goncourt in 2017 .

Life

Éric Vuillard was born in Lyon during the May 1968 revolt . His family comes from Franche-Comté near Lons-le-Saunier . He reports that his mother showed him his father on the barricades from the balcony. Vuillard attended various schools until his father, a surgeon, decided to live in an abandoned mountain village. As a teenager, Vuillard packed Villon and Rimbaud in his backpack and traveled to Spain and Portugal . He returns, gains university entrance qualification and goes to university, where he studies law, political science, philosophy, anthropology and history under the direction of Jacques Derrida at EHESS . After graduating, he goes to Rome . He writes a lot. At the age of 31 he published his first text. He's going on trips again, this time to Mexico and Peru . Conquistadors appears in 2009, a great epic for which he received several awards. He and his wife move to Rennes in Brittany.

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Éric Vuillard published his first volume of short stories in 1999, which has been followed by several works of poetry, novels and other short stories to this day. The author is known for his method of condensing history in brief moments and retelling it. He told in Conquistadors (2009) from the conquest of the Inca empire in Peru's Andes by Pizarro in Congo (2012) from the Berlin Berlin Conference (1884-1885), in Tristesse de la terre (2014) of Buffalo Bill and the Wild West and in 14 juillet (2016) from the French Revolution . In German-speaking countries, Vuillard became known in particular through La Bataille d'Occident (2012), which appeared in Germany in 2014 under the title Ballade vom Abendland and deals with the First World War . The historically known details are turned into pieces in a puzzle, which opens up new approaches. With breathtaking, musically and poetically composed associations, Vuillard connects great politics with the misery of the trenches.

In 2017, Vuillard received the Prix Goncourt for L'ordre du jour (English: The Agenda ). In the book he describes the secret meeting of Adolf Hitler on February 20, 1933 with representatives of large German industry, as well as the annexation of Austria in 1938, and focuses on compliant politicians such as Kurt Schuschnigg .

In the book July 14th, published in German in 2019 , a mixture of a novel and an essay, Vuillard tells of the storming of the Bastille on July 14th, 1789. He is not interested in a systematic description of historical processes, but in imagining feelings, Moods and special moments in history. Where the sources are silent, Vuillard tells as if fiction were truer than historical events.

In addition to working as a writer, Vuillard co-wrote the screenplay for Philippe Grandrieux's feature film Betrayed and Sold (2002) . In 2009 he directed and screenplayed the feature film Mateo Falcone with Hiam Abbass , based on the story of the same name by Prosper Mérimée .

reception

The Congolese choreographer and director Faustin Linyekula adapted Vuillard's text Congo for his piece and performed it at the Ruhrtriennale in 2019 .

criticism

The journal Psychotherapie im Dialog writes under the heading Worth reading: The most conspicuous means in the literature of scarcity is the genre of the novella. And like no other, the author Stefan Zweig put together a unique collection of such scarce world events - especially in the “ Great moments of mankind ”. The work remained unsurpassed for a long time. But there has been a legitimate successor to this art of storytelling for a long time and his name is Eric Vuillard.

Thomas Lang asks Vuillard together with Vuillard whether "history ... is going to its knees before the spectacle" and comes to the conclusion: Vuillard's books revolve around this problem in a certain way. Even he is unable to make more than a verbal spectacle out of the material that has been handed down. Seen in this way, he is himself a Buffalo Bill of literature - a re-staging, illuminator, and illustrator. However, he offers us to reflect on his material with him, and the prospect is that he won't get lost in his own version of history like the old American did.

Prizes and awards

  • 2010: Prix ​​de l'inaperçu for the novel Conquistadors .
  • 2012: Franz Hessel Prize
  • 2013: Prix ​​Valery-Larbaud for Congo and Ballads from the Occident
  • 2017: Prix Goncourt for L'ordre du jour
  • 2017: Prix ​​Alexandre-Vialatte

Publications

Filmography

  • 2002: Betrayed and sold (Original title: La Vie nouvelle , screenplay)
  • 2006: L'Homme qui marche (director and screenplay)
  • 2009: Mateo Falcone (director and screenplay)

Web links

Commons : Éric Vuillard  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Dirk Fuhrig: Most important French literary prize Who wins the Prix Goncourt? , deutschlandfunkkultur.de , November 6, 2017, accessed on November 6, 2017.
  2. Deutschlandfunk May 25, 2015: Story. When Europe divided Africa among itself
  3. ^ Deutschlandfunk February 26, 2010: At the expense of Africa
  4. Neue Zürcher Zeitung June 24, 2015: Rhapsody in Black
  5. Bayerischer Rundfunk, July 11, 2017: "Sadness of the Earth". Éric Vuillard on Buffalo Bill Cody ( Memento from March 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
  6. literaturkritik.de October 17, 2017: How the West Was Won. In “Sadness of the Earth”, Éric Vuillard addresses the mass production of the genocide of the North American Indians
  7. literaturkritik.de July 18, 2014: The last walk on the Chemin des Dames. Éric Vuillard wrote a fascinating rhapsody about the First World War with his “Ballade vom Abendland”
  8. Deutschlandfunk March 29, 2018: Éric Vuillard "The Agenda". What made Hitler strong
  9. Eric Vuillard: "July 14th" - Assault on the Bastille. Retrieved on May 10, 2020 (German).
  10. ^ Anne Horstmeier: Congo: A story of grief and anger in Duisburg. waz, August 29, 2019, accessed September 1, 2019 .
  11. ^ Éric Vuillard: The agenda. “Nothing is innocent in the art of storytelling.” Psychotherapy in Dialogue 04/2018, April 18, 2018, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  12. The drama of history. Full text, May 8, 2019, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  13. Two deepeners. Franz Hessel Prize awarded , FAZ, January 22, 2013, p. 32
  14. ^ Prix ​​Valery-Larbaud on ville-vichy.fr
  15. Denis in the translator database, Association of German-speaking Translators of Literary and Scientific Works , VdÜ, 2019
  16. Andreas Kilb : Why can't Germans do that? FAZ , April 5, 2014, p. 13. Also as an e-book