Félix Bertaux

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Félix Adrien Nicolas Bertaux (born November 9, 1881 in Dombras , Département Meuse , † September 19, 1948 in Sèvres ) was a French Germanist, translator and writer.

Life

Félix Bertaux came from a farming family in Lorraine and lost his father at an early age. His uncle Félix Piquet, professor of German studies at the University of Lille and one of the founding fathers of German studies in France, prompted him to study German. Bertaux studied with Charles Andler and, after graduating, first taught German literature at the Collège in Sèvres . From 1923 he published reviews of new literary publications in Germany in the Nouvelle Revue Française and established contacts with many well-known writers of the era, such as B. Heinrich Mann , whom he first met in 1923 in the Abbaye de Pontigny .

Together with Émile Lepointe, Bertaux published in the series L'Allemand et l'Allemagne par les textes textbooks for high school, which should replace the old books from the pre-war period. The selected texts should use current newspaper articles, literary reports (e.g. Joseph Roth's reports from the Ruhr area), and documents on industry and architecture to convey a current impression of German society. His attention was directed to German naturalism as well as the works of Stefan George , Rainer Maria Rilke and Hugo von Hofmannsthal . In his reviews, Bertaux introduced the French public to the early works of Bertolt Brecht , Erwin Piscator , Walter Benjamin , Rudolf Kayser and Ernst Bloch .

Felix Bertaux is the father of the Germanist Pierre Bertaux .

Works

  • Panorama de la littérature allemande contemporaine . Kra, Paris 1928
  • together with Hermann Kesten (ed.): New French storytellers . G. Kiepenheuer, Berlin 1930
  • together with Émile Lepointe: Dictionnaire français-allemand . Hachette, Paris 1941

literature

  • Ekkehard Blattmann: Heinrich Mann and Paul Desjardins: Heinrich Mann's trip to Pontigny in 1923 . Lang, Frankfurt / M. 1985 (European University Papers. Series 1, German Language and Literature; Vol. 830). ISBN 3-8204-5663-5
  • Chryssoula Kambas: La famille Bertaux in Michel Espagne and Michael Werner (eds.): Histoire des études germaniques en France (1900-1970) . CNRS Editions , coll. "De l'Allemagne" ISSN  1242-8809 , Paris 1994, pp. 205-222. ISBN 2-271-05054-5
  • Pierre Bertaux (ed.): Heinrich Mann, Félix Bertaux. Correspondence 1922-1948 , Fischer, Frankfurt / M. 2002. p. 751. ISBN 3-10-048500-9

Sources and Notes

  1. ^ Pierre Bertaux: Mémoires interrompus . PIA, Asnières 2000 (Publications de l'Institut d'Allemand 27), p. 65. ISBN 2-910212-14-9 ; Pierre Bertaux 2002, p. 751
  2. ↑ Chantal Simonin: Heinrich Mann et la France: une biographie intellectuelle , Presses Univ. Septentrion, Villeneuve-d'Ascq 2005, p. 21. ISBN 978-2-85939-901-6
  3. ↑ Blattmann 1985, p. 124; Christine Fischer-Defoy: Heinrich Mann. "I came from Germany too ...": The private address book 1926-1940 . Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2006, p. 81. ISBN 978-3-7338-0354-4
  4. ↑ Bertaux 1928
  5. ↑ F. Bertaux 1928, pp. 280-313

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personal data
SURNAME Bertaux, Félix
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bertaux, Félix Adrien Nicolas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French German studies specialist, translator and writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Dombras , Meuse department
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1948
Place of death Sèvres