Jean-Jacques Langendorf

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Jean-Jacques Langendorf (left) with Peter Weiß

Jean-Jacques Langendorf (* 1938 in Gaillard , France ) is a Swiss historian and author. Military history is one of his specialties. He is also co-founder and co-owner of the Karolinger Verlag in Vienna .

Life

His father Ernst Langendorf was a social democratic journalist who migrated to France and Spain in 1933. His son, born in 1938, initially stayed with his mother in Switzerland, where he was raised by Ernest Ansermet . After the end of the war, he followed his father, who was now a US officer, to Munich and Starnberg.

Jean-Jacques Langendorf first studied archeology. In 1959, as a member of an anarchist group, he carried out a bomb attack on the Spanish UN embassy in Geneva.

After a year in prison, Langendorf went to the Arab world to create photo documentation about crusader castles. After several years as a philosophy lecturer in Tunisia, he lived and worked in Cyprus for a longer period of time.

Today he is head of the Institut de stratégie comparée in Paris.

According to Hannes Hintermeier, Langendorf, like his partner Weiß, corresponds to the "alternative to the ascetic intellectual".

Awards

In 2001 Langendorf received the Prix ​​Michel-Dentan for his book La nuit tombe, Dieu regarde .

Works (selection)

Non-fiction

  • Rühle von Lilienstern or the romantic unity of the war , Vienna: Karolinger 1984.
  • Guillaume-Henri Dufour , Zurich: SV Internat. 1987.
  • Ancestral Gallery of the Imperial Army 1618 - 1918 , Vienna: Karolinger 1995.
  • The big journey , Vienna: Karolinger 1996.
  • Genius and diligence , Vienna: Karolinger 1998.
  • Ernest Ansermet or a passion for the authentic , Geneva: Slatkine 1997.
  • Ships of the Monarchy , Vienna: Karolinger 2000.
  • Switzerland in the turmoil of the 20th century , Altstätten: Tobler 2002.
  • Ernest Ansermet: une vie de musique , Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2004.
  • General Guisan and the Swiss People, Pully (Switzerland): General Henri Guisan Foundation, 2004.
  • Histoire de la neutralité: une perspective , Gollion: Infolio 2007.
  • La SS: un État dans l'État , Gollion: Infolio 2008.
  • Wage war: Antoine-Henri Jomini , Zurich: vif 2008.
  • A Land under Threat, Gollion: Infolio 2010.
  • La pensée militaire prussienne , Paris: Economica 2012.

Fictional texts

  • Un débat au Kurdistan . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1969 (new edition Lausanne 2000).
  • Neuschwanstein-sur-Mer . L'Age d'Homme, Lausanne 1978.
  • Les Tribulations d'un melon chinois . Minizoé, Geneva 1997.
  • La Comtesse Graziani . Zoé, Geneva 1998.
  • La Nuit tombe, Dieu regarde . Zoé, Geneva 2000.

Web links

Wikiquote: Jean-Jacques Langendorf  - Quotes (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Hannes Hintermeier : Just thinking is boring . In: FAZ , April 30, 2004, p. 52.
  2. ^ Prix ​​Michel-Dentan
personal data
SURNAME Langendorf, Jean-Jacques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Gaillard , Switzerland