François Bondy

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François Bondy at a forum talk about the Kieler Woche 1963

François Bondy (born January 1, 1915 in Berlin ; † May 27, 2003 in Zurich ) was a Swiss essayist , literary critic and journalist .

Life

François Bondy, son of the author and director Fritz Bondy (aka NO Scarpi) , was born in Berlin in 1915 and grew up in Davos , Lugano and Nice . As a student at the Lycée de Nice (since 1963 Lycée Masséna ), where he obtained his Baccalauréat in September 1933 , he became a friend of Romain Gary (then Roman Kacew). He studied German at the Sorbonne in Paris and graduated with a licentiate from Richard Alewyn in 1940. Until his internment in 1941 and the subsequent expulsion, as he was of Jewish descent, he lived as an editor in Paris. From 1941 he worked in Zurich as a political editor for the Zürcher Weltwoche . He then worked as an editor and also as a freelancer for renowned Swiss and, from 1945, also for German newspapers and magazines, including The Month , Merkur , Akzente and the Süddeutsche Zeitung . In Paris he became known as the editor of the magazine Preuves , which appeared from 1951 to 1969. Since 1975 he worked as an editor for the Swiss monthly magazine . He later also worked for Die Zeit , Die Welt , the New York Times , the NZZ and further for the Süddeutsche .

He wrote several books on contemporary literature as well as historical-political works and made a name for himself as a translator of works by Benedetto Croce , Guglielmo Ferrero , Émil Cioran and Johann Heinrich Merck, as well as with his monograph on Witold Gombrowicz (with Konstanty Jeleński, 1978). Authors such as Ignazio Silone and Nathalie Sarraute have become known to a larger audience through his mediation.

In the winter semester of 1966/1967 he held the lecture Modern Literature seen from Paris as a guest lecturer at the Technical University of Berlin at Walter Höllerer's chair .

He was a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

François Bondy had been married to Lillian Blumenstein since 1945; he was the father of theater director Luc Bondy .

honors and awards

Works

Novels

  • 1970 "From a distance"
  • 1972 "The rest is writing"
  • 1988 "Paths of Curiosity"
  • 1990 "My three quarters of a century"

Non-fiction

  • 1940 Report on the Camp du Vernet (Ariège) et on the conditions de l'arrestation et de l'internement de nombreux étrangers en France in: Hanna Schramm : Menschen in Gurs , p. 321–328 “de FB, interné en juin et juillet (1940) "
  • 1973 “Germany - France, history of a difficult relationship”, together with Manfred Abelein
  • 1985 “The post-war does not have to be a pre-war. European orientations "

Essays

  • Romain Gary , in Deutsche Zeitung - Christ und Welt , 3. – 4. February 1962; again in Verena von der Heyde - Rynsch, ed .: Vive la littérature! Contemporary French literature. Hanser, Munich 1989, pp. 109, 111 (with full photo by Gary)

literature

  • Who says Europe ...: Essays and honors by and for Francois Bondy , edited by Iso Camartin , Hanser, Munich 1995
  • François Bondy , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 35/2003 of August 18, 2003, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Myriam Anissimov: Romain Gary. Paris 2004, pp. 96, 102 etc.
personal data
SURNAME Bondy, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss essayist, literary critic and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 2003
Place of death Zurich