Odile Benyahia-Kouider

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Odile Benyahia-Kouider (born May 13, 1966 in Bourges ) is a French journalist and author with a focus on business and media. In Germany she became known with the political non-fiction book L'Allemagne paiera ( Germany will pay ), which deals with German history from 1990 to 2012.

Life

Benyahia-Kouider's mother is German, she herself spent a total of 15 years in Germany. In 1988 she graduated from the Sorbonne Paris IV with a degree in literary studies before studying journalism.

She is married to the French legal scholar Olivier Beaud .

Act

journalism

After graduating from the École supérieure de journalisme in Lille , she began her journalistic career in 1990 with the daily newspaper Liberation . At the age of 29 she took over the management of the media department, became head of the finance department in 1998 and worked as a foreign correspondent in Berlin from 2001 to 2006, where she wrote about politics, economics and culture.

From 2007 to 2008 she was deputy editor-in-chief of the French business magazine Challenges , which belongs to the Le Nouvel Observateurs media group , and was responsible for the business and finance departments. In 2008 she appointed the news magazine Nouvel Observateur as a reporter ( grand reporter ) for the economic department. She wrote numerous individual biographies of well-known company managers, including Martin Bouygues , Serge Dassault , Arnaud Lagardère , Michel-Edouard Leclerc and Maurice Lévy . In 2015 she moved to the satirical weekly Le Canard enchaîné .

Political Literature

In her non-fiction book Un si petit Monde (2011) she revealed the background to the takeover of the daily newspaper Le Monde by the three businessmen Pierre Bergé , Xavier Niel and Matthieu Pigasse .

In 2013 Odile Benyahia-Kouide published the political non-fiction book L'Allemagne paiera (German: Germany will pay ). The title is a quote from Georges Clemenceau from 1918, and the German bill he meant was the reparations payments set out in the Versailles Treaty . She decided to write the book after Nicolas Sarkozy remarked: “But who wants to spend a vacation in Germany?” Jean-Gabriel Fredet concluded in the Nouvel Observateur : How Madame de Staëls De l'Allemagne could two centuries ago Odile Benyahia-Kouider's book marks the beginning of a political vision. With her book, which deals with the history of Germany from 1990 to 2012, she takes apart anti-German prejudices of the French elites. It is "a hymn to Germany and the Germans, this time to entrepreneurship, medium-sized businesses, the welfare state, corporate co-determination, public morals and even the debt brake," said Andrea Dernbach in Der Tagesspiegel . The downside of the Germany model is not concealed. Benyahia-Kouider states: "There are proportionally more poor and excluded in Germany than in France."

L'Allemagne paiera was awarded the Prix ​​du meilleur livre économique 2013 , the prize of the French Ministry of Economic Affairs for the best business book.

Awards

  • 2013: Prix ​​du meilleur livre économique 2013 for L'Allemagne paiera

bibliography

  • Un si petit monde , éditions Fayard, Paris 2011
  • L'Allemagne paiera. Voyage au pays d'Angela , éditions Fayard, Paris 2013

literature

  • Sébastien Vannier: Merkel, Merkel, Merkel again. Germany in the French press. Interview with Odile Benyahia-Kouider , in: Claire Demesmay, Christine Pütz, Hans Stark (eds.): France and Germany - images, stereotypes, reflections. Perception of the neighbor in times of crisis , Nomos Verlag, 1st edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-8487-3058-2 , pages 93-96

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Review by Thomas Hanke: How France sees its neighbors , Handelsblatt, December 12, 2013
  2. ^ A b Odile Benyahia-Kouider reçoit le prix du livre de l'Economie , Le Nouvel Observateur
  3. ↑ Odile Benyahia-Kouider reçoit le prix du livre de l'Economie , Le Point , December 13, 2013
  4. ↑ According to the dedication in: Odile Benyahia-Kouider: L'Allemagne paiera
  5. ↑ Tous les articles de Odile BENYAHIA-KOUIDER publiés dans Liberation , (until 2010)
  6. ↑ Angela Merkel: femme la plus puissante du monde ?, france5, 23 September 2013
  7. ^ [1] , "Arnaud Lagardère: Papa, j'ai rétréci le groupe", Le Nouvel Observateur , March 27, 2013 (in French) .
  8. ↑ [2] , "L'envers du système Leclerc", Le Nouvel Observateur , September 18, 2012 (in French) .
  9. ↑ Odile Benyahia-Kouider: Maurice Lévy: le roi de la com veut redorer son image . Le Nouvel Observateur, June 13, 2012
  10. ↑ Odile Benyahia-Kouider passe au Canard enchaîné , La Lettrea, November 17, 2015
  11. ↑ L'Express , March 30, 2011, [3]
  12. ↑ Jean-Gabriel Fredet: Odile Benyahia-Kouider, you Lauréate Prix du livre d'économie in 2013 , Le Nouvel Observateur, December 12, 2013
  13. ↑ a b Review by Andrea Dernbach: "Germany will pay" , Der Tagesspiegel September 30, 2013
  14. ^ Dominique Vidal: Allemagne, clichés modèles , Le Monde diplomatique, January 14, 2014
  15. ↑ Review by Eric Zemmour: L'Allemagne paiera ... et commandera , Le Figaro, September 12, 2013, (published in French and German on the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung website)
  16. ↑ Review by Frédéric Lemaître: “Voyage” au pays d'Angela Merkel , Le Monde, October 23, 2013 ( archive )
  17. ^ Remise du Prix du Livre d'Economie 2013 by Odile Benyahia-Kouider , Ministere de l'Economie et des Finances
personal data
SURNAME Benyahia-Kouider, Odile
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French journalist
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourges