François Cavanna
François Cavanna (born February 22, 1923 in Paris , † January 29, 2014 in Créteil ) was a French journalist and writer.
Life
Cavanna was the only son of the Italian-born mason Luigi Cavanna, who received French citizenship in 1939 , and the Frenchwoman Marguerite Charvin . He grew up in Nogent-sur-Marne , where numerous Italian immigrants lived. After completing secondary school ( brevet supérieur ) in 1939, he worked in Paris for the post office ( Postes, Télégraphes et Téléphones ) . When the German troops marched in in 1940, he followed orders to leave for southern France, which he tried to do on a bicycle. However, he soon returned to occupied Paris, was, like many other colleagues, dismissed from the postal service and worked for a fruit and vegetable dealer. He later took up an apprenticeship as a bricklayer. In 1943 he was conscripted by the authorities of the Vichy regime and sent to the labor service (French STO, Service du travail obligatoire ) in Germany. He had to u. a. work in the armaments production of Graetz AG . Like other forced laborers, he was also used in rescue and clean-up work after air raids. At his workplace he met and fell in love with the Ukrainian slave laborer Maria. However, Maria was abducted by Soviet soldiers after the liberation; despite years of searching, Cavanna was unable to find her.
After returning to France in 1945 he began to work as a journalist . From 1949 he also worked as a cartoonist . From 1960 he was editor of the satirical magazine Hara-Kiri and from 1970 of the well-known satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo . For the autobiographical novel Les Russkoffs , which describes the war years, Cavanna received the Prix Interallié in 1979 .
Works
- 4, rue Choron
- Bête et méchant (1981)
- Cavanna: Les pensées
- Cavanna par Cavanna
- Cœur d'artichaut
- Coups de sang
- Dieu, Mozart, Le Pen et les autres
- Et le singe devint con
- Instants de grâce (with photos by Jean-Pierre Leloir )
- L'œil du lapin
- La belle fille sur le tas d'ordures
- La couronne d'Irène
- La déesse mère
- Le dieu de Clotilde
- La hache et la croix
- Le hun blond
- Le con se surpasse
- Le temps des égorgeurs - Nos ancêtres les Gaulois
- Les Écritures: Les Aventures de Dieu - Les Aventures du petit Jésus
- Les fosses carolines
- Les grands imposteurs
- Les Ritals (1978)
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Les Russkoffs (1979)
- German title: Das Lied der Baba. From the French by Klaus Budzinski, Berlin 1988, most recently Ullstein, Frankfurt / Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-548-22253-6 .
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Les yeux plus grands que le ventre
- German title: The eyes bigger than the stomach. Translated from the French by Martin Schulte, Goldmann, Munich 1985, ISBN 3-442-06829-0 .
- Lettre ouverte aux culs-bénits
- Maman au secours
- Maria (1985)
- Mignonne allons voir si la rose
- Stop crève
- Tonton, Messaline, Judas et les autres
Web links
- Literature by and about François Cavanna in the catalog of the German National Library
- L'écrivain et dessinateur Cavanna est mort , January 29, 2014 in Le Monde
- On the death of Francois Cavanna - An obituary , February 6, 2014 in the Documentation Center Nazi Forced Labor / Topography of Terror Foundation
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cavanna, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 22, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2014 |
| Place of death | Créteil |