Madeleine Riffaud

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Madeleine Riffaud (born August 23, 1924 in Arvillers ) is a French poet , journalist , war correspondent and was a member of the French Resistance .

Resistance

Riffaud was fifteen years old when World War II broke out . A year later, in 1940, she and her mother and grandfather had to flee from the Wehrmacht in the unoccupied southwest of France. Your refugee stretch was attacked by the air force near the Loire . The attack and later assault by an occupation officer who kicked her buttocks prompted her to go to Paris when she was 17 and join the Resistance. She was now called "Rainer" in reference to her favorite poet Rainer Maria Rilke . Within the Resistance, she belonged to the Francs-tireurs et partisans (FTP) group and transported messages, smuggled weapons and obtained food stamps. Riffaud was also involved in the capture of 80 Wehrmacht soldiers from a German armored train .

After the Oradour massacre , the then 19-year-old was commissioned to kill a German officer in July 1944. On the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor passerelle she saw a NCO standing at the railing and looking at the Seine . She shot him twice in the head . She then fled on her bike and was caught by a French militiaman . The latter handed them over to the Gestapo for a bounty of 10,000 francs .

While in custody, she was tortured with sleep deprivation , electric shocks, and mental torture . She was handcuffed to a chair for two weeks and a man was tortured to death in front of her. One boy in their group was broken arms and legs. She was scheduled to be shot on August 5, 1944, but she was removed from the group of those to be shot and further interrogated. She survived imprisonment and torture and was released on August 18, 1944, during a prisoner exchange. Then she helped erect the barricades in Paris to stop the German occupation . After the liberation of Paris , she continued her fight in the Resistance.

post war period

After the war Madeleine Riffaud worked as a journalist and war correspondent for newspapers such as L'Humanité , radio and television stations. She also worked for German television stations. Riffaud reported on the Algerian war and the Vietnam war . After returning to France, she worked as a nursing assistant in a hospital in Paris. There she wrote the bestseller Les Linges De La Nuit and published a poem anthologie : Cheval Rouge: Anthologie Poétique , 1939–1972.

Awards

plant

  • Le Poing Fermé (1945)
  • Le Courage D'aimer (1949)
  • Les Carnets de Charles Debarge, documents recueillis et commentés par Madeleine Riffaud (1951)
  • Les Baguettes de Jade (1953)
  • Le Chat si Extraordinaire (1958)
  • Ce que j'ai vu à Bizerte (1961)
  • Merveille et Douleurs: l'Iran (1963)
  • De votre Envoyée Spéciale ... (1964)
  • Dans Les Maquis "Vietcong" (1965)
  • Au North Vietnam: écrit sous les bombes (1967)
  • Nguyễn Đinh Thi: Front du Ciel (Mãt trãn trên cao) (1968)
  • Cheval Rouge: Anthologie Poétique, 1939–1972 (1973)
  • Les Linges de la Nuit (1974)
  • On L'appelait Rainer: 1939-1945 (1994)
  • La Folie du Jasmin: poèmes dans la nuit coloniale (2001)
  • Bleuette (2004)

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e - Remembering and Reconciling: Franco-German Encounters . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de ).
  2. ↑ a b Jon Henley: 'You can't know how wonderful it was to finally battle in the daylight' . In: The Guardian . August 20, 2004, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com ).
  3. ^ Tous les combats de Madeleine Riffaud . In: L'Humanité . August 22, 2014 ( humanite.fr ).
  4. ^ Légion d'honneur Promotion du 1st January 2001 . In: L'Humanité . January 4, 2001 ( humanite.fr ).
  5. ↑ vubaochi: Vietnam Embassy - Veteran French journalist honored. (No longer available online.) In: vietnamembassy-southafrica.org. www.vietnamembassy-southafrica.org, archived from the original on November 13, 2016 ; accessed on November 12, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Riffaud, Madeleine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French resistance fighter, journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 23, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Arvillers