Grisélidis Réal

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Grisélidis Réal, 1998

Grisélidis Réal (born August 11, 1929 in Lausanne , † May 31, 2005 in Geneva ) was a Swiss prostitute , artist and author . She is considered a pioneer of the prostitute movement.

Réal was born in Lausanne, but grew up in Alexandria, Egypt . When she was eight years old, her father died; the mother then returned to Switzerland with her three daughters. Grisélidis Réal attended the arts and crafts school in Zurich . In the early 1960s she went to Germany and started working as a prostitute. After a six-month prison sentence in Munich women's prison in 1963 for smuggling marijuana, she was expelled. She later came into contact with the prostitution movement in France and became one of its main activists.

Grisélidis Réal was the mother of four children. She spoke German, French and English.

In prison she wrote her first texts, a diary in which she also made drawings with a ballpoint pen. It was only discovered and published after her death. She gave lectures on prostitution in Europe and America.

Works

  • Le noir est une couleur . Balland, Paris 1974
    • German edition: Memories of a negro whore . Autobiographical novel. Piper, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-492-04955-9
  • La Passe imaginaire . L'Aire, Vevey 1992
  • Mémoires de l'Inachevé 1954-1993
  • À feu et à sang . Le Chariot, Genève 2003g
  • Carnet de Bal d'une Courtisane - 2005
  • Suis-je encore vivante ?: Journal de Prison - published in 2008
  • Les Sphinx . Verticales, Paris 200
  • Jean-Luc Hennig: Grisélidis, courtisane . Albin Michel, Paris 1981

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personal data
SURNAME Réal, Grisélidis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss prostitute, artist and book author
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2005
Place of death Geneva