Marceline Loridan

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Marceline Loridan (right) with her second husband Joris Ivens (1989)

Marceline Loridan , also Marceline Loridan-Ivens (born March 19, 1928 as Marceline Rosenberg in Épinal ; † September 18, 2018 ) was a French director , screenwriter and actress .

Adolescent years in concentration camps

Marceline Rosenberg was the daughter of wealthy Polish Jews who immigrated to France in 1919. In 1943, the fifteen-year-old was arrested together with her father Solomon in the Vaucluse department ( southern France ) and on April 13, 1944, was deported on the 71st transport to Auschwitz , where she lost a total of 45 relatives. When the Red Army approached at the beginning of 1945, she was driven on a death march and initially held prisoner in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp . She was liberated in May 1945 at the age of seventeen in the Theresienstadt ghetto . Her mother and four siblings were not deported and survived in France.

Film work

In July 1945 Marceline Rosenberg returned to France. There she married Francis Loridan, a young civil service engineer who worked far away. After a few years she divorced him and continued to use his last name. She began her collaboration (as an assistant) with various documentary film directors , including Jean Rouch and Joris Ivens , under the name Marceline Loridan . The latter later became her husband. For some of his documentaries she was involved in both the direction and the writing of the script .

Occasionally Marceline Loridan also appeared in front of the camera as an actress , also at the side of Hanna Schygulla and Jean-Paul Belmondo . In 2002, Marceline Loridan processed her own youth in the concentration camp with Birkenau and Rosenfeld , her first completely own production with a play story and at the same time the first feature film that was allowed to be shot on the former camp grounds of Auschwitz-Birkenau . Actress Jeanne Moreau was also involved in the script she helped create .

Marceline Loridan-Ivens did not have any children. She once said she couldn't. She saw too many children die.

Fonts

  • with Élisabeth D. Inandiak: Ma vie balagan . Robert Laffont, Paris 2008 ISBN 978-2-221-10658-7
  • with Judith Perrignon: Et tu n'es pas revenu . Grasset, Paris 2015 ISBN 978-2-246-85391-6 (Prix Jean-Jacques-Rousseau 2015), in German as:
And you didn't come back . Translation Eva Moldenhauer . Insel, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-458-17660-2

Filmography

  • 1960: Chronicle of a summer ( Chronique d'un été , documentation, performance)
  • 1968: Le 17e parallèle: La guerre du peuple (documentary, co-direction)
  • 1969: Le peuple et ses fusils (documentary, script collaboration)
  • 1975: Comment Yukong déplaça les montagnes (documentation, co-direction)
  • 1976: Une histoire de ballon (co-director)
  • 1977: Les ouigours (short film, co-direction, script collaboration)
  • 1977: Les kazaks (medium-length film, co-director, script collaboration)
  • 1986–88: A story about the wind ( Une histoire de vent , script collaboration)
  • 1991: Golem, l'esprit de l'exile (actor)
  • 1999: Peut-être (actor)
  • 2000: To love ( Éloge de l'amour , actor)
  • 2002: Birkenau and Rosenfeld (director, screenplay)
  • 2007: La fabrique des sentiments (actor)
  • 2007: The Office of God ( Les bureaux de Dieu , actor)

literature

  • Kay Less : Between the stage and the barracks. Lexicon of persecuted theater, film and music artists from 1933 to 1945 . With a foreword by Paul Spiegel . Metropol, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-938690-10-9 , p. 229.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sandra Kegel: Concentration Camp Memories: Don't tell them anything, they don't understand. In: faz.net . September 11, 2015, accessed September 21, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Marceline Loridan: Ma vie balagan . Laffont, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-221-10658-7 , pp. 171 .
  3. ↑ FAZ , September 20, 2018, p. 13. (Obituary).
personal data
SURNAME Loridan, Marceline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Loridan-Ivens, Marceline; Rosenberg, Marceline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French director, actress and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Epinal
DATE OF DEATH 18th September 2018