Frédéric Mitterrand

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Frédéric Mitterrand (2008)

Frédéric Mitterrand (born August 21, 1947 in Paris ) is a French and Tunisian actor , author , screenwriter , film producer and film director . From 2009 to 2012 he was French Minister of Culture .

Life

Frédéric Mitterrand is the son of Édith Cahier, a niece of Eugène Deloncle , founder of the right-wing extremist organization Cagoule , and of Robert Mitterrand , the older brother of the former President François Mitterrand . He attended the Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris and then studied history and geography at the University of Paris-Nanterre and political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris . After completing his studies, he ran three Art-et-Essai cinemas in Paris in the 1970s and played in various films by Pierre Zucca , Pierre Grimblat and Benoît Jacquot, among others . In the 1980s he closed his cinemas for financial reasons. Mitterrand worked as a producer and director in various television productions in France in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mitterrand was appointed director of the French Academy in Rome by President Nicolas Sarkozy in June 2008 . On June 24, 2009 he was appointed Minister for Culture and Communication. He headed the academy until September 2009. He was succeeded as director of the academy in Rome by Éric de Chassey .

Mitterrand is open to his homosexual orientation . In October 2009 there was a public debate in France about statements by Mitterrand in his 2005 autobiography La Mauvaise Vie , in the course of which the Socialist Party and the Front National accused Mitterrand of sex tourism and sex with minors and called for his resignation.

In January 2011 Mitterrand, who is also a Tunisian citizen, came under fire for calling it “completely exaggerated” to call Tunisia a dictatorship.

Works (selection)

  • Mémoires d'exil , Robert Laffont, 1990
  • Destins d'étoiles - tomes 1, 2, 3, 4 - Fixot , 1991-1992
  • Monte Carlo: la légende , Assouline, 1993
  • Une Saison tunisienne , Actes Sud, 1995
  • L'Ange bleu: un film de Joseph von Sternberg , Plume, 1995
  • Madame Butterfly , Plume, 1995
  • Les Aigles foudroyés - la fin des Romanov des Habsbourg et des Hohenzollern , Pocket, 1998
  • Un jour dans le siècle , Robert Laffont, 2000
  • La Mauvaise Vie (“The Bad Life”), Robert Laffont, autobiography, 2005
  • Lettres d'amour en Somalie , Pocket, 2006
  • Maroc, 1900–1960 Un certain regard , Actes Sud, 2007 (with Abdellah Taïa )
  • Le Festival de Cannes , Robert Laffont, 2007

Filmography (selection)

as an actor:

as producer:

  • 1976: Les écrans déchirés
  • 1987: Avril brisé
  • 1998: Fairouz (documentation)

Awards (selection)

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Frédéric Mitterrand est "franco-tunisien" , radio report from January 18, 2011 on Europe 1 ( Flash )
  2. ↑ a b c ARTE: Frédéric Mitterrand ( Memento from May 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Lexpress: Frederic Mitterrand nommé à la Villa Médicis
  4. ↑ Tempsreel: Frédéric Mitterrand nommé à la tête de la Villa Médicis à Rome ( Memento from June 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ New entry in Nicolas Sarkozy's cabinet ( Memento from June 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), sueddeutsche.de , June 24, 2009
  6. ↑ Tetu: Frédéric Mitterrand nommé à la Villa Médicis de Rome ( Memento from January 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ www.queer.de: Does Minister stumble over "Thaiboy" stories? , October 8, 2009
  8. ↑ Europe cuddles before the aged regimes of North Africa in the world from January 11, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Mitterrand, Frédéric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author, film director, film producer, actor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris