Jacques Bergier

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Jacques Bergier (born Jakow Michailowitsch Berger , Russian Яков Михайлович Бергер ; born August 8, 1912 in Odessa ; † November 23, 1978 in Paris ) was a French - Polish chemist , alchemist , occultist , spy , journalist and non-fiction author .

Life

In the 1960s and 1970s he became known as the co-author of Louis Pauwels ' bestseller , The Dawn of the Third Millennium (French: Le Matin des Magiciens ). With Pauwels, he deals with parapsychology , secret societies , pre-astronautics and the occult roots of National Socialism . The two understood their work as an introduction to the literary movement of "fantastic realism" they had founded themselves.

Fonts

  • with Louis Pauwels: Le Matin des magiciens. Introduction au réalisme fantastique. Gallimard, Paris 1959; (= folio. 129) Gallimard, 1972
  • with Louis Pauwels: The planet of impossible possibilities. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1968; Heyne, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-453-00457-4 (anthology of the "most important contributions by Louis Pauwels and Jacques Bergier from PLANÈTE")
  • L'Espionnage industriel. 1969
  • with Louis Pauwels: L'Homme éternel. La suite du Matin des Magiciens (= Embellissement de la vie. 1). Gallimard, Paris 1970; (= folio. 365) Gallimard, 1973
    • The discovery of the eternal man. The reevaluation of human history through fantastic reason. Scherz, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1971; Heyne, Munich 1975, ISBN 3-453-00510-4
  • L'Espionnage scientifique. 1971
  • Aux limites you connu. 1971
    • Pushing the boundaries of what is possible. The fantastic realities of modern science. Müller, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-275-00476-X
  • Les Empires de la chimie modern. 1972
    • The fantastic possibilities of modern chemistry. Müller, Rüschlikon / Stuttgart / Vienna 1974, ISBN 3-275-00531-6
  • Je ne suis pas une légende. Retz, Paris 1977 (autobiography)

Co-founder (together with Louis Pauwels):

  • Planète. Bimonthly magazine. Paris 1961 ff. (From 1968 to the closing in 1971 udT Le Nouveau Planète; several foreign editions - from 1969 to 1971 in eight editions also in Germany, initially udT Planet, from No. 6, 1970 as Planet Magazin at Ed.Planet, Munich. In addition, extra editions Encyclopédie Planète and Anthologie Planète ). In Planet appeared:
    • The secret of fire. In: Planet. 2, July / August 1969, pp. 33-41.
    • Alchemy: NO to a science without a conscience. Planet 3, September / October 1969, pp. 47-59.
    • with A. Amar, B. der Jouvenel, R. Merle, B. Thomas and H. Viard: Interview on the question: “What is political fiction?” In: Planet Magazin. No. 6, March / April 1970, pp. 102-111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Beatrice Fleury & Jacques Walter: Le camp de la Neue Bremm. Memoire et mediation (1945-1947). In: Patricia Oster & Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (ed.): At the turning point. Germany and France around 1945 - on the dynamics of a “transnational” cultural field (= France Forum. Vol. 7). Transcript, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-668-7 , p. 97
  2. ↑ Le Matin des Magiciens in the French Wikipedia
personal data
SURNAME Bergier, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berger, Jakow Michailowitsch (maiden name); Бергер, Яков Михайлович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Polish chemist, alchemist, spy, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Odessa , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH November 23, 1978
Place of death Paris , France