Françoise Giroud

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Françoise Giroud (1998)

Françoise Giroud (birth name: Lea France Gourdji ; born September 21, 1916 in Geneva , † January 19, 2003 in Paris ) was a French feminist journalist , writer and politician .

Life

Lea France Gourdji comes from a Mizrachim family, a family of oriental Jews in Ottoman service. She received her school education at the Lycée Molière and the Collège de Groslay and then worked as a secretary. She started writing scripts . Gourdji and her mother converted to Catholicism to avoid persecution of the Jews in occupied France , and she changed her name. Because of her ties to the Resistance , she was imprisoned and tortured in the Fresnes Gestapo Prison in June 1944 .

The psychoanalyst and screenwriter Caroline Eliacheff, born in 1947, comes from her marriage to the film producer Anatole Eliacheff .

In 1953, she co-founded the news magazine L'Express and was one of its editors, alongside the well-known links intellectual Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber . In the following years she shaped the journalistic work of the magazine and also became a leading exponent of feminism in post-war France .

In 1974 she was appointed by President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing as State Secretary for the Status of Women in the Ministry of Culture in the government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac and was a member of this until the end of Chirac's tenure in 1976. Her vision is well-known from this time: a woman will only really have equal rights with the man on the day when an incompetent woman is appointed to a significant post.

In addition to her ministerial office, she also began writing books such as Ce que je crois (1975) and La Comédie du pouvoir (1977), which have been translated into many languages . Among her best-sellers in 1983 published include novel Le bon plaisir , the 1984 by Francis Girod under the title Le bon Plaisir - A political love affair with Catherine Deneuve and Jean-Louis Trintignant filmed was and the 1985 for the Cesar for best adapted screenplay was nominated , and Les hommes et les femmes (1993). At the 1990 Cannes International Film Festival she was a member of the jury chaired by Bernardo Bertolucci .

She also wrote biographies about well-known women such as Marie Curie , Alma Mahler-Werfel , Jenny Marx and Cosima Wagner . In 1999 her autobiography was published under the title Isn't it wonderful to be happy ?: Autobiography .

Publications

in German language
  • Dior: Christian Dior 1905–1957. Munich 1987, ISBN 3-88814-247-4 .
  • Alma Mahler or the art of being loved. Original title: Alma Mahler ou l'art d'être aimée. Darmstadt 1989, ISBN 3-552-04114-1 .
  • When we talk about Europe - a dialogue between Françoise Giroud and Günter Grass . Original title: Ecoutez-moi. Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-630-61835-9 .
  • The men and the women. Original title: Les hommes et les femmes. Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-10-026003-1 .
  • Trio infernale or the life of Jenny Marx. Beltz, Weinheim 1994, ISBN 3-88679-230-7 .
  • The lover. Original title: Mon très cher amour ... Düsseldorf 1995, ISBN 3-547-73218-2 .
  • Educational lessons. Original title: Leçons particulières. Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-596-13193-6 .
  • Cosima Wagner - with power and with love. Original title: Cosima la sublime. Munich 1998, ISBN 3-423-24133-0 .
  • Marie Curie - “Mankind also needs dreamers”. Munich 1999, ISBN 3-612-26602-0 .
  • Two and two are three. Original title: Deux et deux font trois. Munich 2003, ISBN 3-426-61285-2 .
in French
  • Francoise Giroud vous présente le Tout-Paris. New edition of the book from 1952. Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-0701-3986-6 .
  • Jenny Marx ou la femme du diable. Laffont, Paris 1992, ISBN 2-221-06808-4 .
  • Alix de Saint-André (ed.): L'histoire d'une femme libre. Collection Blanche, Éditions Gallimard, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-0701-3840-1 . (posthumously)
    • I am a free woman . Translation by Patricia Klobusiczky. Vienna: Zsolnay, 2016

literature

Web links and sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Le Monde : LE SEXE, LA MORALE ET LA REINE VICTORIA (March 1, 1983)
  2. ↑ Heinz Monz: On the biography of Jenny von Westphalen . In: New Trierisches Jahrbuch 1996. Numerous errors by Françoise Giroud are listed there.
  3. ^ Paris Match : Françoise Giroud. La journaliste amoureuse (January 9, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Giroud, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gourdji, Lea France (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, journalist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH January 19, 2003
Place of death Paris