Martin Graff

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Martin Graff (born June 22, 1944 in Münster in Alsace ) is an Alsatian author , filmmaker , journalist , cabaret artist and priest .

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Graff studied Protestant theology , philosophy and Romance studies at the University of Strasbourg . He was a pastor in Strasbourg before the Church of the Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine sent him to Saarbrücken for the church radio of the Saarland Broadcasting Corporation .

He wrote numerous books in French or German on the subject of borders , minorities and religion . In 1998 he traveled to many border regions for the Council of Europe from Murmansk to San Sebastian and from Vukovar to Maastricht . He is also considered a Danube specialist. He traveled several times to the countries between the Black Sea and the Black Forest . He is often referred to as a " border crosser " and a "thought smuggler".

His motto , cast in a poem, is: “Hang your roots in the air and climb the stars. Get out of your fear. Only then do you look across the borders into the other country, into the other heart. Only then do you look across the borders into your own country and into your own heart. ”He deals critically with his homeland and the relationship between Alsatians and Germans on the one hand and that of French and Germans on the other.

Graff made more than 200 films for German and French television companies, including his first production Spring am Rhein - Printemps sur le Rhin , which was broadcast simultaneously in France and Germany on May 8, 1975 (anniversary of the end of the Second World War ) ( ZDF / Antenne 2 , 17 years before arte was founded ).

In the past few years Graff has experimented with new formats: the series Straßenbekannschaft mit Hitchhikers or the series The world in a snowflake , a journey through the Alps , both on ZDF . In France, he last shot Bons baisers du Hohneck , a point movie (“one-point film”): the camera is in a single place (in the Vosges ) and observes the country and its people. When it comes to radio, Graff is often active at Saarland Radio or Südwestfunk .

Graff also works as a cabaret artist with the German actor Klaus Spürkel . The play Sause in Versailles - la grande bouffe is considered a classic in Franco-German circles: Both extras appear bilingually as protocol chiefs of their respective republic and are commissioned to organize Franco-German meetings. For a year they also appeared in the program Vis à Vis ( SWR / France 3 Alsace ).

Graff also appears regularly in his own show at the Theâtre de la Choucrouterie in Strasbourg .

He is currently regularly writing German-French columns for Die Rheinpfalz and the Badische Zeitung . The Franco-German author mixes German and French in sentence, a format that is also used in schools.

The Alsatian is represented in French school books with the article je t'aime moi non plus , which he wrote for Die Zeit .

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  1. ↑ a b c Evangelischer Kirchenbote - Sunday paper for the Palatinate , October 20, 2011, evpfalz.de: An Alsatian Protestant in France (October 22, 2017)
  2. ↑ September 15, 2011, evpfalz.de: Martin Graff and Martin Luther (October 22, 2017)
  3. ^ Zeit.de , January 16, 2003: 40 years of the Elysée contract: Je t'aime moi non plus (October 22, 2017)
personal data
SURNAME Graff, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alsatian pastor, author, journalist, cabaret artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Munster (Haut-Rhin)