Jean Schlumberger

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Jean Schlumberger ( Théo van Rysselberghe , 1914)

Jean Schlumberger (born May 26, 1877 in Gebweiler , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † October 25, 1968 in Paris ) was a German - French journalist and writer .

Life

Jean Schlumberger comes from a wealthy Alsatian family. His brothers were the geophysicists and geologists Conrad and Marcel Schlumberger .

In 1909, together with André Gide and others “from the spirit of the elite”, he founded the magazine Nouvelle Revue Française , “of which it can be said that it was the cradle of literary modernism in France”. In 1926 he founded the Franco-German Study Committee together with Emil Mayrisch . After the Second World War he worked for the magazine Allemagne d'aujourd'hui . Schlumberger was in Paris the "second father" of the German writer Joseph Breitbach , who in 1962 dedicated his novel Report on Bruno to him and his own father .

Schlumberger turned away from his original Protestantism and advocated agnosticism . Original sin no longer existed for him, but his literary characters fight a constant battle between instinct and conscience , good and bad. He advocated the primacy of undisguised truth and truthfulness that was ruthless towards oneself on the one hand over propriety on the other.

Awards and honors

Works

  • Théâtre , 1943 (11th edition)
  • Éveils , 1950 (4th ed.)
  • Oeuvres , 7 volumes 1958–1962
  • Correspondance. Jacques Rivière - Jean Schlumberger , 1980
  • Homage to Émile Mayrisch . Speech in Baden-Baden on July 4, 1928 on the death of the honoree. Colpach, series: Souvenirs et témoignages, 1 (not available in stores), in: Œuvres , Volume 5, pp. 325-340
  • Paul Desjardins . Témoignade; and L'Abesse de Pontigny . Both in: In memoriam Paul Desjardins. Ed. de minuit, Paris 1949
  • Dialogue with the corps endormi. 1925, 1927, again in Essais et dialogues, 1937
  • In the bivouac. German by Joseph Breitbach. Zurich, Kurt Bösch Press, 1957
  • Leopard. Story, in: Merkur , H. 10, 1957, No. 116
  • Notes sur la vie littéraire: 1902–1968 . Ed. établie, prés. et annot. by Pascal Mercier. Gallimard, Paris 1999. (Les cahiers de la NRF). ISBN 2-07-074814-6

literature

  • Gilbert-Lucien Salmon (ed.): Jean Schlumberger et la Nouvelle Revue Française: actes du colloque de Guebwiller et Mulhouse of 25 and 26 December 1999. Avec des inédits de Jean Schlumberger recueillis et prés. by Pascal Mercier. Paris: L'Harmattan 2005. ISBN 2-7475-6917-9 .
  • Christa Speidel: The image of man in the works of Jean Schlumberger. Diss. Phil. University of Munich, 1958. Printed by Ilmgaudruck, Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm 1958.
  • Johanna Dorothea Hosbach: Jean Schlumberger: Problem and style of the complete work. (= Cologne Romanistic works, N. F. 24). Droz, Geneva 1962. Zugl. Diss. Phil. University of Cologne, 1962.
  • Joseph Breitbach : Jean Schlumberger. Personality and work. An overview. Lecture given on October 30, 1952 on the occasion of Jean Schlumberger's 75th birthday in Stuttgart. Kurt Bösch Press, Zurich 1952.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Harpprecht , "Whom providence leads ...", in: Die Zeit , 16, 2002 ( online ).
  2. ↑ DFHK Bulletin 21-2011 , p. 14.
  3. ↑ Alexandra Countess Plettenberg: Afterword. In: Joseph Breitbach: Report on Bruno. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 302.
  4. ↑ The book is dedicated to Aline Mayrisch, v. a. because of her interest in Zen Buddhism , which she developed after a trip to the Far East.
  5. ↑ von Breitbach also: Introduction to JS, restless fatherhood. Novel. Ullstein, Berlin 1968.
personal data
SURNAME Schlumberger, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schlumberger, Jean Paul Conrad Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 26, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Gebweiler
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1968
Place of death Paris