Isabelle Azoulay

Isabelle Azoulay (2000)

Isabelle Azoulay (born December 4, 1961 ) is a German-French doctoral writer , philosopher and sociologist .

Life

Isabelle Azoulay is the daughter of a French father and a German mother. She was able to develop in a bilingual environment and grew up in Paris and Frankfurt am Main . Isabelle Azoulay studied philosophy and sociology at the Sorbonne and at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. She studied u. a. with Alfred Lorenzer and did her doctorate with Volkmar Sigusch with a thesis on images of violence in the sexual fantasy of women . As a result she wrote works on Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, among other things .

The Franco-German gives lectures and writes essays on the topics of sex research , feminism and erotic art . Azoulay published the sociological studies Fantastic Abysses (1996), The violence of giving birth (1998) and Pain (2000). She is also the founder of the Berlin artist group “ImWestenWasNeues” and the initiator of the first “Mobile Film Festival” in 2007.

Your literary debut De Gaulle and me. A story from Casablanca was published in 2008: Little Marcel wants to consider neither the gap between Jews from Spain and Jews who have always been there, nor the tug-of-war between Sepharads and Ashkenazi , nor who is accused of murdering Jesus . “De Gaulle and I” is a poetic approach to family secrets. Azoulay's second novel Josty followed in autumn 2009 . A love between Berlin and Sils Maria , who tells the story of an unconventional love at the beginning of the 19th century. At the same time, the novel addresses the desire for individuality and the fear of falling out of the world.

Isabelle Azoulay lives and works in Berlin. In addition to her academic training and scientific studies, she has further qualified in the field of psychotherapy , so she practices as a psychotherapeutic alternative practitioner in the field of the treatment of legal addictions ( tobacco dependence ) (e.g. training in smoking cessation, certified by the Institute for Therapy Research (IFT) ). She was u. a. Trained in integrative psychotherapy at the “Institut Christoph Mahr” .

bibliography

Major works

• The violence of childbirth. List, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-471-77029-1 .
• Pain. The disenchantment of a myth. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-351-02789-3 .
• Fantastic abysses. The violence in the sexual imagination of women. With the foreword by Volkmar Sigusch. Brandes & Apsel, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-86099-267-8 .
• De Gaulle and me. A story from Casablanca. Elfenbein Verlag , Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-932245-90-9 .
• Josty. A love between Berlin and Sils Maria. (Hardcover). Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-932245-99-2 .
• Josty. A love between Berlin and Sils Maria. (Paperback). Elfenbein Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-941184-27-5 .

Essays

• The sweet blows - the other pain. In honor of Sacher-Masoch. In: Peter Weibel (Hrsg.): Phantom der Lust Volume I. Visions of Masochism, essays and texts. Belleville, Munich 2003, pp. 76-86, ISBN 3-936298-24-6 .
• Hans-Jürgen Döpp: Eros. The pleasure in art. With an essay by Isabelle Azoulay. Area Verlag, Erftstadt 2004, ISBN 3-89996-203-6 .
• Peter Weiermair (Ed.): The cold look. Erotic art 17th to 20th centuries (official catalog for the exhibition of the same title in Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurter Kunstverein ). With texts by Isabelle Azoulay. Edition Stemmle, Kilchberg / Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-905514-61-3 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Isabelle Azoulay in the catalog of the German National Library
• Isabelle Azoulay at Elfenbein Verlag (Berlin)
• Isabelle Azoulay's website [3]

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Literaturport Author Lexicon [1]
2. ↑ Magnus Klaue: A portrait of the writer Isabelle Azoulay German pain. A conversation with Isabelle Azoulay about female violent fantasies, the German religion of pain and the hatred of medicine. December 10, 2009 [2]