Gabriel Cohn-Bendit

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Jean-Gabriel "Gaby" Cohn-Bendit (born April 14, 1936 in Montrouge  , † December 17, 2021 in Toulouse ) was a French educationalist and political activist.

Life

Gabriel Cohn-Bendit was born in 1936 as the son of the German- Jewish lawyer Erich Cohn-Bendit and his wife Herta Cohn-Bendit in exile in France. Unlike his brother Daniel Cohn-Bendit (* 1945), later student leader and Green politician, he became a French citizen .

He studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Cohn-Bendit joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1956 , but later left it again and - after brief sympathy for Trotskyist currents - joined the Socialisme ou barbarie group and the United Socialist Party (PSU). In the time of the 1968 movement , he frequented left-wing extremist circles. In 1979 he revealed his libertarian left-wing political sentiments to the daily Liberation, reporting on the influences of Trotskyism . He later became a member of France's green party Europe Écologie-Les Verts .

From 1979 he supported together with Éric Delcroix , Claude Karnoouh , Vincent Monteil and Jean-Louis Tristani in a controversial publication (1981) the Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson in his request for freedom of expression, which among other things. led to the conflict with the Ligue Internationale Contre le Racisme et l'Antisémitisme .

Cohn-Bendit worked as a German teacher in the municipality of Saint-Nazaire until 1987 , most recently at the Lycée expérimental de Saint-Nazaire , a reform pedagogical school he founded in 1982 . In the 1987/88 school year he taught German as a local assistant at the French Lycée in Ouagadougou , Burkina Faso. He then returned to France and was seconded there for "new educational projects".

In 1989, Cohn-Bendit founded the Groupement des retraités éducateurs sans frontières , later Groupement des Éducateurs sans Frontières (GREF), an organization that placed retired teachers for temporary voluntary assignments in countries of the global south, and worked as its general secretary until 1996 retired. In December 2009, in addition to his French citizenship, he applied for Burkina Faso citizenship, which he received in 2010.

Several times he wrote open letters to the Ministry of Education calling for reforms. In 2001, Minister of Culture Jack Lang appointed him to the Conseil national de l'innovation pour la réussite scolaire . In 2004 he founded the Réseau Éducation Pour Tous en Afrique (REPTA).

In 2002 he and his brother Daniel criticized the Trotskyist Lutte Ouvrière party and its chairman Arlette Laguiller in an article (“Arlette n'est pas une sainte”, German: Arlette is not a saint ) in the magazine Liberation . For this “defamation” Gabriel Cohn-Bendit was sentenced in 2005 by an appeals court to a fine of 1500 euros.

In the 2012 presidential election in France , he publicly called for the election of François Hollandes .

Fonts (selection)

  • with Daniel Cohn-Bendit: Left radicalism, cure for violence against the old age disease of communism . Translated from the French by Wolfgang Brokmeier. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1968.
  • with Éric Delcroix, Claude Karnoouh, Vincent Monteil and Jean-Louis Tristani: Intolérable intolérance . Éditions de la Différence, Paris 1981, ISBN 2-7291-0093-8 .
  • Nous sommes en marche . Flammarion, Paris 1999, ISBN 2-08-067744-6 .
  • L'école doit éduquer à la désobéissance: le lycée expérimental de Saint-Nazaire éd . L'Harmattan, Paris 2001.
  • Lettre ouverte à tous ceux qui n'aiment pas l'école . Editions Little big man, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-915347-22-0 .
  • A bas le Parti Vert! Vive l'écologie! Éditions Mordicus (= collection Coups de colère), Paris 2011, ISBN 978-2-918414-48-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gaby Cohn-Bendit: Gaby à Ouaga en Burkinabé ( REPTA website) ( Memento from November 12, 2010))
  2. ↑ Mort de Gaby Cohn-Bendit, prof militant qui écrivait sa pédagogie dans la marge
  3. ↑ a b c d Ingrid Gilcher-Holtey: The imagination to power: May 68 in France . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-518-28780-X , p. 85.
  4. ^ Arno Guillou, Mathieu Renard: Gabriel Cohn-Bendit , L'œil électrique, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  5. ↑ Gabriel Cohn-Bendit: Question de Principe , in: Liberation , March 5, 1979.
  6. ↑ Groupement des Éducateurs sans frontières: Le GREF, memoires pour l'avenir. Essai sur l'histoire de GREF. ( Digitized on the GREF website), pp. 18f., 72]
  7. ↑ Saint-Nazaire: l'expérience reconnue à la marge , in: Le Monde de l'Éducation , March 2007.
  8. ↑ La lettre ouverte de 2000 , écoles, collèges & lycées différents, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  9. ↑ Historique ( Memento of October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 991 kB), accessed on September 4, 2013.
  10. ^ Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Gabriel Cohn-Bendit: Arlette n'est pas une sainte , in: Liberation , April 4, 2002.
  11. ^ Gabriel Cohn-Bendit et Libé condamnés , in: Le Nouvel Observateur , October 14, 2005.
  12. ↑ Gabriel Cohn-Bendit votera Hollande ( Memento of March 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). in: Le Figaro , March 26, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Cohn-Bendit, Gabriel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cohn-Bendit, Jean-Gabriel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French reform pedagogue
BIRTH DATE April 14, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 17, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Toulouse