Frédéric Beigbeder

Frédéric Beigbeder (2011)

Frédéric Beigbeder [ fʀedeˈʀik bɛgbeˈde ] (born September 21, 1965 in Neuilly-sur-Seine ) is a French writer , actor , screenwriter and director .

life and career

Frédéric Beigbeder was born in 1965 as the son of a personnel consultant and a descendant of the de Chasteigner noble family in the Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. The father worked as a headhunter, the mother as a novel translator. After his parents divorced early, he and his brother grew up mostly with their mother. He developed a strong bond with his brother Charles Beigbeder , who founded the Internet platform Selftrade in 1997 , sold it for billions in profits and, in 2002, founded the first independent French electricity company , Poweo .

Beigbeder studied political science at Sciences Po Paris and was hired by the advertising agency Young & Rubicam after the publication of his first novel, Memoirs of a Son from a Bad Family . There he worked for ten years as a copywriter and conceptioner. With the publication of his novel thirty-nine ( 99 francs ) he became known beyond the borders of France and at the same time became one of the key words in consumer criticism . More novels followed. In 1994 he created the Prix de Flore for young authors (named after the famous Café de Flore in St-Germain-des-Prés), which includes Michel Houellebecq and Virginie Despentes . In 2005 Beigbeder was a guest writer at the Book Fair in Beirut together with Alain Decaux , Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet . In 2009 he received the Prix ​​Renaudot for his work Un roman français .

In private, Beigbeder was in a relationship with actress Laura Smet for a while.

Works

Fiction

Marc Marronnier Trilogy

• Volume 1: Mémoires d'un jeune homme dérangé . La Table Ronde, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7103-2410-2 (EA Paris 1990).
  • Memoirs of a son from a bad family . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-499-23095-X .
  • Memoirs of a son from a bad house. Audio book . Hoffmann & Campe 2002, ISBN 3-455-30293-9 (2 CDs, read by Thomas Kausch ).
• Volume 2: Vacances dans le coma . Grasset, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-246-48291-7 (EA Paris 1994),
  • Vacation in a coma . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-23191-3 .
• Volume 3: L'Amour dure trois ans , Grasset, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-246-54651-6 (EA Paris 1997).
  • The love lasts three years . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2003, ISBN 3-499-23192-1 .
• Anthology: The Wild Years. The Marc Marronnier Trilogy . Reinbek, Rowohlt 2004, ISBN 3-499-23679-6 .

Individual works

• 99 francs . Grasset, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-246-56761-0 .
  • Thirty-nine ninety-nine . 39.90 . Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-498-00617-7 .
• Windows on the world . Grasset, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-246-63381-8 .
  • Windows on the World . Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-550-08453-6 .
• L'Égoïste romantique . Grasset, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-246-67791-2 .
  • The romantic egoist . Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-550-08636-9 .
  • The romantic egoist. Audio book . DAV, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89813-557-8 (3 CDs, read by Heikko Deutschmann ).
• Au secours pardon . Grasset, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-246-67801-4 .
• Un roman francais . Grasset, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-246-73411-6 .
  • A French novel . Piper, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-492-05414-0 .
• Oona & Salinger. Grasset, Paris 2014.
  • Oona & Salinger . Novel. Translated from the French by Tobias Scheffel . Piper, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-492-05415-7 .

stories

• Nouvelles sous ecstasy . Gallimard, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-07-075523-1 .
• Loneliness to several . In: Krachkultur . Volume 9 (2001), ISSN  0947-0697 .

essay

• with Philippe Bertrand: Rester normal à Saint Tropez . Dargaud, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-205-05417-1 .
• Premier bilan après l'apocalypse . Grasset, Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-246-77711-3 .
• An eye for an eye . In: The star . November 18, 2015, p. 54ff. (about the terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 in Paris )

Non-fiction

• Barbie . Assouline, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84323-083-7 .
• Dernier inventaire avant liquidation . Grasset, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-246-59691-2 .
  • The last inventory before the sale . The fifty best books of the 20th century . Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2002, ISBN 3-499-23286-3 .

Filmography (selection)

Frédéric Beigbeder at the 60th Cannes Film Festival (2007)

As an actor

• 1999: The essence of beauty ( Les Infortunes de la beauté )
• 2005: Imposture
• 2006: Comme t'y es belle!
• 2007: Les Cinéphiles 3 - Les Ruses de Frédéric
• 2007: 39.90 ( 99 francs )
• 2008: La personne aux deux personnes
• 2011: Beur sur la ville
• 2011: The darn 3rd year ( L'Amour dure trois ans )

As a screenwriter

• 1999: The essence of beauty ( Les Infortunes de la beauté )
• 2006: The Day All Women Loved Me
• 2007: 39.90 ( 99 francs )
• 2011: The darn 3rd year ( L'Amour dure trois ans )

As a director

• 2011: The darn 3rd year ( L'Amour dure trois ans )

literature

• David Angie: Frédéric Beigbeder (= Écrivains d'aujourd'hui). Léo Scheer, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-7561-0092-0 .
• Alain-Philippe Durand: Frédéric Beigbeder et ses doubles (= Cahiers de recherches interuniversitaires néerlandais. Volume 51). Rodopi, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-90-420-2472-4 .
• Angela Kölling: Writing on the loose. Reading Florian Illies 's “ Generation Golf ”, Maurice G. Dantec's “Périphériques”, Joschka Fischer 's “My long run to myself”, and Frédéric Beigbeder's “Windows on the world” as examples of creative nonfiction (= Amsterdam publications on Language and Literature. Volume 171). Weidler, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-89693-560-1 .
• Jörg Magenau: "Writers are like wolves". Frédéric Beigbeder. In: Börsenblatt des Deutschen Buchhandels . Volume 172, Issue 10, 2004, pp. 42-43, ISSN  1611-4280 .
• Jenny Martin: “Don't be afraid of happiness, it doesn't exist”. The dream of happiness and its failure with Houellebecq and Beigbeder (= Young Forum Literature. Volume 1). Bouvier, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-416-03131-8 .
• Kai Nonnenmacher: "Frédéric Beigbeder, 99 Francs" and "Frédéric Beigbeder, L'Égoïste romantique". In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Hrsg.): Kindlers Literature Lexicon . Volume 2, 3rd edition. Metzler, Stuttgart 2009.
• Kai Nonnenmacher: Cioran as a copywriter? Frédéric Beigbeder's novel “99 francs”. Staging a confession as a confession. In: Giulia Eggeling, Silke Segler-Meßner (ed.): European publishers and contemporary Romanesque literature. Profiles, tendencies, strategies . Narr, Tübingen, ISBN 3-8265-4692-X , pp. 218-238.
• Michaela Sänger: Simulated narration and literary truthfulness. Unrealized storytelling in the modern age . PL Academic Research, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-631-63980-1 . (also dissertation University of Augsburg 2012).

Web links

Wikiquote: Frédéric Beigbeder  - Quotes

Commons : Frédéric Beigbeder  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Frédéric Beigbeder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Frédéric Beigbeder in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Frédéric Beigbeder in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Unofficial page (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frédéric Beigbeder . Munzinger Archive GmbH. Retrieved June 20, 2019.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} Translated by Brigitte Große.
3. ↑ The Ghostly Driver of Fate. In: Der Spiegel . 43/2010, p. 168.
4. ↑ Willi Winkler : The man in the bunker. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 11, 2015, p. 18.
5. ↑ Translated by Daniel Dubbe.
6. ↑ The original, La Solitude à plusieurs, can be found in his anthology Nouvelles sous ecstasy. 1999.
7. ↑ Translated by Juliane Gräbener-Müller.