Jean Hatzfeld

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Jean Hatzfeld (2011)

Jean Hatzfeld (born 1949 in the French colony of Madagascar ) is a French journalist.

Life

Jean Hatzfeld is a grandson of the Graecist Jean Hatzfeld and son of the historian Olivier Hatzfeld and Maud Hatzfeld, Protestants of Jewish origin. He grew up in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon . In 1976 he became a journalist for the newspaper Liberation , where he initially built up the sports department. He switched to politics and reported for twenty years as a war correspondent on conflicts in the Middle East, the Balkans and Africa. Various non-fiction books and some novels emerged from the experiences and newspaper articles.

Hatzfeld suffered life-threatening gunshot wounds while reporting in Bosnia in 1992 . In June 1994 he left Sarajevo to report on the soccer World Cup in the USA . He then drove to Rwanda , where the Hutu murders between May and July found many victims among the Tutsi . He stayed in the country for two months. In 1998 he took a one-year leave of absence from the Liberation, went back to Rwanda and interviewed surviving Tutsi, which resulted in the report Dans le nu de la vie , which appeared in 2000. When most of the perpetrators were given amnesty in 2003, he conducted interviews with them and published them and his analysis in the book Stratégie des antilopes .

Hatzfeld's texts were edited for theater performances and brought to the stage at the Festival d'Avignon, among others .

Awards (selection)

Works (selection)

  • L'Air de la guerre: on the routes de Croatie et de Bosnie-Herzégovine . Report. Paris: L'Olivier, 1994 ISBN 2-02-023213-8 .
  • La Guerre au bord du fleuve . Novel. Paris: L'Olivier, 1999 ISBN 2-87929-338-3 .
  • Dans le nu de la vie: récits des marais rwandais . Paris: Le Seuil, 2000 ISBN 2-02-053056-2 .
    • Just bare life. Reports from the swamps of Rwanda. Translation by Karl-Udo Bigott. Haland and Wirth, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-89806-933-8 .
  • Une season de machettes . Report. Paris: Le Seuil, 2003 ISBN 2-02-067913-2 .
    • Machete time. Talks with the perpetrators of the genocide in Rwanda. Translation by Karl-Udo Bigott. Haland and Wirth in Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2004, ISBN 3-89806-932-X .
  • La Ligne de flottaison . Novel. Paris: Le Seuil, 2005.
  • La stratégie des antilopes . Paris: Le Seuil, 2007.
  • Où en est la nuit . Paris: Gallimard, 2011.
  • Robert Mitchum ne revient pas . Paris: Gallimard, 2013.
  • Englebert des collines . Paris: Gallimard, 2014.
  • Un papa de sang . Paris: Gallimard, 2015.

literature

  • Jürg Altwegg : The ghost of genocide wanders through the village . In: FAZ , November 26, 2016, p. 12

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hervé Nathan: Cette terre de la Haute-Loire a accueilli et caché plus de 3,000 personnes , in: Liberation, July 9, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Hatzfeld, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Madagascar