Jean Egen

The church tower and the linden trees of Lautenbach.

Jean Egen (born August 23, 1920 in Lautenbach , † December 21, 1995 in Paris ) was an Alsatian journalist and author . His stage name Egen is derived from his family name Egensperger .

He was in Germany with its strong autobiographical colored novel The Linden of Lautenbach known, which was printed in millions of copies, including at Morstadt publisher , the Rowohlt publishing house and in part at Reader's Digest . The novel was filmed in 1982 under the same title, u. a. with Mario Adorf as an actor. The linden trees still stand on the forecourt of the Romanesque collegiate church from the 12th century.

In France he was known as an employee of Le Monde , but also through his occasional collaboration on the satirical magazine Le Canard enchaîné .

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  Birthplace of Jean Egen

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  Memorial plaque in memory of Jean Egen

Works (selection)

• Messieurs du "Canard", Paris: Stock 1973.
• L'abbatoir solennel, Paris: Authier 1973.
• Un Mur entre deux mondes, Paris: Denoe͏̈l 1978.
• Le Canard enchaîné, Paris: Seghers 1978.
• Les tilleuls de Lautenbach, Paris: Stock 1979.
• The linden trees of Lautenbach, Kehl am Rhein: Morstadt 1983.
• Saint Nicolas raconté par un ami de son âne, Strasbourg: Bueb & Reumaux 1985.
• The Hans in the Florival. Once upon a time in Alsace, Kehl am Rhein: Morstadt 2019, ISBN 978-3-88571-392-0 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Jean Egen in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Jean Egen in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)