Geneviève Carrez

Geneviève Carrez (née Muller ; born September 27, 1909 in Besançon ; † February 13, 2014 ibid) was a French German teacher, translator and committed advocate of international (especially Franco-German) cooperation.

Life

Geneviève Carrez's ancestors came from Switzerland . She grew up in Besançon, where she graduated from the Ursuline School. In Freiburg , she experienced the German language and culture directly during a student exchange, which shaped her entire later life. She studied u. a. German studies at the University of Franche-Comté in Besançon. She then worked for a year in Vienna as an assistant at the Federal Education Institute . During this time she wrote her thesis on Arthur Schnitzler . After returning to Besançon, she worked as a teacher at the Lycée Pasteur there. In the meantime, she accepted an offer to deepen her knowledge for a year at the Institut français in Berlin . Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , she married a colleague who was also a German teacher. Despite the war, her two sons were raised bilingually. In the years 1949–1954 she worked at the French cultural office in Mainz , where she was responsible for youth exchanges. After returning to Besançon, she founded the Comitée d'Échanges Internationaux with other colleagues and with the support of the city , from which - probably on her initiative - the partnership between her hometown and Freiburg emerged.

In 1981 Carrez came into contact with the Renaissance architect while visiting the exhibition on Heinrich Schickhardt in the castle of Montbéliard , which is in the same Doubs department as Besançon. There was u. a. an edition of Rayß issued in Italy . She was fascinated by the book from the first glance, so that she was allowed to translate it with the consent and cooperation of the Société d'émulation de Montbéliard . In this way, this extraordinarily lively but linguistically difficult text was made accessible to French readers for the first time. The translation first appeared in 1986 in the new edition of Rayß in Italy . Although now very old, Geneviève Carrez was committed to promoting the work of Heinrich Schickhardt.

Publications

• Les relations internationales de l'Allemagne occidentale ; recueil d'études par Geneviève Carrez [et al.] under the direction of Alfred Grosser . Paris: A. Colin 1956

Translations

• Heinrich Schickhardt : Rayß in Italy 1599–1600 , ed. by Winfried Bolter. Herrenberg: Kulturkreis Herrenberg 1986 (contains three versions of the text: first edition from 1602, new edition from 1902 edited by Wilhelm Heyd and the translation by Geneviève Carrez)
  • New version: Heinrich Schickhardt. Voyage en Italy. Tear in Italy (November 1599 - May 1600) . Commenté par André Bouvard, Montbéliard: Société d'émulation de Montbéliard 2002, ISBN 2-9511006-2-0 (contains German and French versions)

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: Der Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 59 (also contains a photo) or DNB and obituary ( French ).
2. ^ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , pp. 59–60
3. ↑ Full title: Description of a Reiss / Which the Illuminated High-born Prince and Lord / Mr. Friderich Hertzog zu Würtemberg vnnd Teck, ... In 1599 Selb neundt / outside the Landt zu Würtemberg, in Italiam , Mömpelgard: Jacques Foillet 1602 (Tübingen : Erhard Cellius 1603)
4. ↑ Horst Schmid-Schickhardt: The Schnitzer von Herrenberg ... , p. 60

literature

• Horst Schmid-Schickhardt : The Herrenberg carver. Heinrich Schickhardt the Elder from Siegen (1464–1540) or 500 years of the Swabian Schickhardt family 1503/2003 , Baden-Baden: Schmid-Schickhardt 2003, pp. 59–60
• Hedwig Brüchert: Rhineland-Palatinate women. Women in Politics, Society, Economy and Culture in the Early Years of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate , Mainz: Hase and Koehler 2001, ISBN 3-7758-1394-2 , pp. 70–72