Michel Polac
Michel Polac (born April 10, 1930 in Paris , France , † August 7, 2012 ) was a French journalist who worked for the press as well as for radio and television. He was also an author , literary critic and film director .
Life
Polac comes from a Jewish bourgeois family in Paris. His father was a war veteran of World War I and a supporter of Marshal Pétain in World War II . He was deported to Auschwitz and died there.
In the years from 1955 to 1970 he presented the radio program Le Masque et la Plume , with which France Inter brought cultural criticism to a wider audience. From 1966 to 1970 he presented the literary program Bibliothèque de poche, which he had created, on the TV channel ORTF . After ten years of abstinence from television, he became from 1981 the moderator of the discussion program Droit de réponse ("reply"), which was broadcast by the public television company TF1 . Shortly after the channel was privatized and taken over by Bouygues in 1987, he left the television company, whereupon the program was discontinued. Polac was also a critic on the first season of On n'est pas couché , a talk show on France 2 in 2006 .
In 1956 Polac published his first novel with Gallimard : La vie incertaine . Almost twenty other books and other publications followed. Between 1969 and 1998 he directed a dozen cinema, television and video films. He worked as a columnist for L'Express and was a member of the editorial team of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo .
Michel Polac died, according to his family, of "exhaustion, after various illnesses". His grave is in Cabrerolles in the Hérault department . A few years before his death he wrote his own epitaph: Touche-à-tout, il a fini par toucher terre .
Publications
- 1966: Dictionnaire des Pataqués , illustrated by M. Henry, Éditions Seuil, Paris.
- 1975: Le Grand mégalo ou la vie pur rien . Éditions Stock, Paris 1975.
- 1985: Hors de soi , Roman. Barrault Éditions, Paris. New edition: Presses Universitaires de France, Pris 2001.
Filmography
- 1969: Un fils unique , director and screenplay; Movie.
- 1971: Ça ne peut plus durer , director; Movie.
- 1980: La Sourde oreille , director; TV movie.
- 1998: Fragment d'un autoportrait en vieil ours , direction and self- portrayal , video film.
Web links
- Michel Polac in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ First provocateur in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 9, 2012, p. 35
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Polac, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French journalist, author and film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 10, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 7, 2012 |
| Place of death | Paris , France |