Frédéric Dard

Frédéric Dard 1992, photographed by Erling Mandelmann

Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard (born June 29, 1921 in Bourgoin-Jallieu , Isère , † June 6, 2000 in Bonnefontaine , Switzerland ) was a French writer, a. a. of detective novels .

Life

Dard was the son of Francisque Dard, a former worker of Eugène de Dietrich , and his wife Joséphine-Anna Cadet. After Black Thursday (October 24, 1929) his family settled in Lyon ( Département Rhône ). There he attended the Écoles La Martinière .

In November 1942 Dard married Odette Damaisin and had two children with her: Patrice (* 1944) and Élizabeth (1948-2011). Between July 1944 and March 1949 the family lived in Lyon (La Croix-Rousse). The marriage was unhappy and the couple separated.

On June 14, 1968, Dard married Françoise de Caro, a daughter of the publisher Armand de Caro, for the second time . With her he had a daughter: Joséphine (* 1970), the future wife of Guy Carlier .

Frédéric Dard died two weeks before his 79th birthday on June 6, 2000 in Bonnefontaine in the canton of Friborg . His grave is on the Cimetière de Saint-Chef .

reception

Dard is one of the most prolific French-speaking authors. He wrote almost 200 novels under his pseudonym San Antonio alone . Dard said he chose this name after the Texan city of San Antonio . It is worth mentioning that the San Antonio novels are kept pseudo-autographical: the protagonist, Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio, tells the reader his adventures personally. He is supported by the inspectors César Pinaud and Alexandre-Bénôit Bérurier.

According to his own admission, Dard was inspired by Louis-Ferdinand Céline , William Faulkner and John Steinbeck , but also by Peter Cheyney and Georges Simenon . Since Dard has a weakness for colloquial French in his novels , Argot and the like. a. Slang expressions developed, the publication of a San Antonio dictionary later became necessary.

In addition to the pseudonym San-Antonio , Dard used other names, under which he published only a few works. Are known u. a. the names Maxell Beeting , Verne Goody , Wel Norton , Cornel Milk .

In addition to his detective novels, Dard tried his hand at plays with varying degrees of success. His first - Les salauds vont en enfer - he was able to publish in 1954 together with Robert Hossein as Grand Guignol .

After Frédéric Dard's death, his son Patrice tried to continue his father's work under the pseudonym "San Antonio".

Works (selection)

Detective novels

The bird in the silver cage. Detective novel ("Le monte-charge"). Xenos-VG, Hamburg 1977.
In the arms of the night ("Les bras de la nuit"). Heyne, Munich 1964.
A murderer is not a hero. Xenos-VG, Hamburg 1990, ISBN 3-8212-0905-4 .
The beautiful dead Helena. Criminal thriller ("Une seconde de toute beauté"). Heyne, Munich 1969.
My wife, the killer. Detective novel ("Delivres-nous du mal"). Xenos-VG, Hamburg 1977.

murder spiral (“LA dame qu'on allait voir chez elle”). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-10216-9 .

Novels

Passionate servant. Elster-Verlag, Baden-Baden 1994, ISBN 3-89151-190-6 .
The beautiful Edward. Novel. Heyne, Munich 11996, ISBN 3-453-09289-9 .
Between hate and love ("Les séquestrées"). Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1982, ISBN 3-404-12144-9 .

Plays

The Lady of Chicago. An alcoholic comedy in two acts (“La dame de Chicago”). Bloch, Berlin 1969.
La neige était. Paris 1950 (based on Georges Simenon).
Docteur Jekyll and Mister Hyde. Paris 1954 (based on Robert Louis Stevenson's The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ).
Monsieur Carnaval. Paris 1965 (music by Charles Aznavour and Mario Bua ).
Le Cauchemar de Bella Manningham. Paris 1978 (based on Patrick Hamilton ).

Filmography (selection)

script

1955: The black face of Paris (M'sieur La Caille)

1956: Spies (Action immédiate)

1957: On the wrong track (L'étrange Monsieur Steve)

1958: The girl from Hamburg ( La fille de Hambourg )

1958: Hello, I am your murderer (Sursis pour un vivant)

1958: Night falls in Montmartre (En légitime défense)

1958: With your back to the wall (Le dos au mur) - based on your own novel

1959: Cursed be the day (Une gueule comme la mienne) - also director

1960: The threat (La menace) - based on his own novel

1960: Escape from the scaffold (Le bourreau attendra)

1960: Vis-à-vis (Les scélérats) - based on his own novel

1961: The Liars (Les menteurs) - based on their own novel

1961: Death drove in the elevator (Le monte-charge) - based on his own novel

1961: Crimes of love (Le crime ne paie pas)

1962: Die Schlange (L'accident) - based on his own novel

1962: Give Tinder, Eddie! (L'empire de la nuit)

1985: La Caviar rouge

Literary template

1958: At night the veil falls (Toi… le venin)
1968: Beru and those ladies (Beru et ses dames)
1975: The guilty with the clean hands (Les magiciens)
1980: Everyone turns me on! (San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça)
1983: Thieves among themselves (Voleur)

literature

Pierre Creet, Thierry Gautier: Frédéric Dard dit San-Antonio. Éditions Cheminements, Le-Coudray-Macouard 2001, ISBN 2-914474-20-2 .
Joséphine Dard: Frédéric Dard. Mon Père San-Antonio. Lafon, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-7499-1238-7 .
Christian Dombret: Bibliography illustrée Frédéric Dard, San-Antonio. "En long, en large, et en travers". Action Communications, Embourg 1992, ISBN 2-87360-000-4 .
Maxime Gillio, Laurent Turpin: San-Antonio. Boucq & Dard . Sangam, Bordeaux 2009, ISBN 978-2-9524293-5-1 .
Pierre Grand-Dewyse: “Moi, vous me connaissez!” Une biography et une bibliographie de l'œuvre de San-Antonio . Rive Droite, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84152-001-3 .
Dominique Jeannerod: San-Antonio et son double. L'aventure littéraire de Frédéric Dard . PUF, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-13-057370-8 .
Raymond Milési: San Antonio. Premier flic de France. Éditions Milési, Pézilla-la-Rivière 1996, ISBN 2-87795-081-6 .
Jean-Pierre Rémon: Sur les pas de Frédéric Dard. De Bourgoin-Jallieu, à Lyon, en passant pas Saint-Chef. Créations du Pélican, Lyon 1996.
François Rivière: Frédéric Dard ou la vie privée de San-Antonio Fleuve Noir, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-265-06525-0 (Fleuve Noir biography).
Françoise Rullier-Theuret: Faut pas pisser sur les vieilles recettes. San-Antonio ou la fascination pour le genre romanesque Academia Bruyland, Louvain-la-Neuve 2008, ISBN 978-2-87209-903-0 (Au cœur des textes; 12).
Françoise Rullier-Theuret (Ed.): San-Antonio et la culture française. Actes du colloque international of 18, 19 and 20 mars 2010 in Sorbonne. UDS, Chambéry 2010, ISBN 978-2-915797-74-9 .
Johannes Westenfelder: Not a language creator but a language utilizer. San Antonio as a product of the “crise du français”. Kovač, Hamburg 1991, ISBN 3-925630-99-6 (also dissertation, University of Mainz 1991).

Web links

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

Literature by and about Frédéric Dard in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ by Raymond Roleau in 1950 at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Paris, staged
↑ directed by Robert Hossein in 1954 at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Paris.
↑ directed by Maurice Lehmann in 1965 at the Théâtre du Châtelet , Paris.
↑ by Robert Hossein 1978 at the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, staged.

personal data
SURNAME	Dard, Frédéric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dard, Frédéric Charles Antoine (full name); San Antonio (pseudonym); Beeting, Maxell (pseudonym); Goody, Verne (pseudonym); Norton, Wel (pseudonym); Milk, Cornel (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French author
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bourgoin-Jallieu , Isère department
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 2000
Place of death	Bonnefontaine FR , Switzerland

[1] y Raymond Roleau in 1950 at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, Paris, staged

[2] rected by Robert Hossein in 1954 at the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol, Paris.

[3] rected by Maurice Lehmann in 1965 at the Théâtre du Châtelet , Paris.

[4] y Robert Hossein 1978 at the Théâtre Marigny, Paris, staged.