Marie-Monique Robin

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Marie-Monique Robin at the "Fête de la fraternité" in September 2009 in Montpellier

Marie-Monique Robin (born June 15, 1960 in Poitou-Charentes ) is a French investigative journalist and filmmaker .

life and work

After studying journalism in Strasbourg , she went to Nicaragua and worked as a freelance journalist in South America . She has been to South America more than eighty times, including 30 visits to Cuba . She made reports on the Colombian guerrillas and then worked for the CAPA agency . She is one of the main organizers of the Monsanto Tribunal .

The Death Squads, French School

Marie-Monique Robin documented connections between the French secret services , the Argentine secret service and the Chilean secret police Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia in her book and film of the same name, " Escadrons de la mort, l'école française " (" The death squads , French school "). It shows that the tactics of the Argentine security forces in the dirty war of the so-called process of national reorganization and during Operation Condor in the 1970s and 1980s, which involved a massive use of torture , the French doctrine of the Algerian war (1954-1962 ) came from. It also revealed that members of French authorities and senior officers were involved in teaching the South Americans these techniques. Your work was awarded the prize for “the best political documentary of the year” by the French Senate and Bernard Stasi.

Monsanto, with poison and genes

Marie-Monique Robin became known to the general public on March 11, 2008, when Arte aired her documentary Monsanto, Poison and Genes . In it she dealt with various Monsanto scandals and showed how the company has literally dictated the very generous American legislation in the field of genetic engineering . From the USA to Vietnam and from Europe to Paraguay she described the aggressive commercial practices of the American agro-chemical multinational. Monsanto is now number one in the world in the field of genetically modified seeds . The accompanying book has been translated into 16 languages. The taz called the film “impressively direct”. In the FAZ, on the other hand, the book was heavily criticized, so instead of investigative research it is a " ethical company portrait". The film has received numerous prizes, including the international environmental protection prize Rachel Carson Prize , the environmental media prize from Deutsche Umwelthilfe and the Ekofilm Festival Prize in the Czech Republic in 2009.

In 2011, the documentary film “Our daily poison” ( Notre poison quotidien ) followed.

Plant the future

On World Food Day on October 16, 2012, the last part of their trilogy , the documentary “Planting the future - Bio for 9 billion”, was broadcast on Arte . Here Robin delivers an optimistic study of how the global food crisis could be remedied: Using examples from Mexico, Japan, Malawi, Kenya, Senegal, the USA and several European countries, she illustrates that organic agriculture that is environmentally friendly and conserves resources is not only possible, but also more productive than conventional. The UN Special Envoy for the Right to Food, Olivier de Schutter, introduces the documentation:

“One of the greatest obstacles to adopting organic farming is the enormous economic interest in maintaining the current system. Companies in the chemical industry don't want farmers to learn how to do without their products. "

Farmers must again play a key role in the food chain. For Germany, Manfred and Friedrich Wenz are shown, who work agroecologically on the edge of the Black Forest without plowing and chemicals. Their fields are constantly covered with green, also for fertilization, for humus formation . Friedrich Wenz:

“The 21st century is definitely the century of biology. Without the microbiology in the soil and in all of the cycles that we have, it will simply not be possible for us to operate efficiently and, above all, sustainably in the future. "

Awards

bibliography

  • 2008: Escadrons de la mort, l'école française . Paris: Éditions La Découverte, ISBN 978-2-7071-5349-4
    • Le Monde selon Monsanto. De la dioxine aux OGM, une multinational qui vous veut du bien. Paris: Arte / Éditions La Découverte, (book and DVD)
      DVD German: Monsanto, with poison and genes. 107 min., ISBN 978-3-89848-959-1
      Book German 2009: With poison and genes. How the biotech company Monsanto is changing our world. Stuttgart: DVA, 464 pages, ISBN 978-3-421-04392-4
      2010: Goldmann Taschenbuch, Munich, ISBN 978-3-442-15622-1
  • 2012: Les moissons du futur - Comment l'agroécologie peut nourrir le monde . Paris: Arte / Éditions La Découverte (book and DVD), ISBN 9782707171542

Filmography

Screenwriter, director and cameraman
  • 2003: Death Squads: How France Exported Terrorism ( Escadrons de la mort: L'école française )
Screenwriter and director
  • 1997: The Century in the Picture - Che Guevara
  • 2008: Monsanto, with poison and genes ( Le monde selon Monsanto )
  • 2010: Torture - Made in USA
  • 2011: Our daily poison ( Notre poison quotidien )
  • 2012: Planting the future - organic for 9 billion ( Les moissons du futur )
  • 2014: growth, now what? ( Sacrée croissance! )
  • 2017: Roundup, the process ( French Roundup face à ses juges ). France 2017, Arte France, 90 minutes (available online until December 16, 2017)
Director
  • 1993: Organ Snatchers ( Voleurs d'yeux )

Web links

Commons : Marie-Monique Robin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Algeria Watch
  2. ^ Film review , taz from March 11, 2008
  3. ↑ Joachim Müller-Jung: Marie-Monique Robin: With poison and genes: The main thing is that we talked about it . In: FAZ.NET . March 12, 2009, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed March 26, 2020]).
  4. ↑ The first broadcast was on September 25th on the Belgian broadcaster RTBF.
  5. ^ Rémi Barroux: "Le Roundup face à ses juges": un réquisitoire accablant contre Monsanto , Le Monde, October 16, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Robin, Marie-Monique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Poitou-Charentes