Olivier Guez

Olivier Guez (2017)

Olivier Guez (born June 15, 1974 in Strasbourg , France ) is a French journalist and writer .

Life

Guez studied from 1992 to 1996 at the Institut d'études politiques in Strasbourg , where he graduated with a degree in international relations . In 1996 and 1997 he studied this subject at the London School of Economics and, in parallel, completed a law degree as a correspondence course at the University of Lille II and the CNED . At the Collège d'Europe in Bruges , he passed a master's examination in European politics and administration in 1998 . In 1998 he was posted to Bosnia-Herzegovina by the OSCE and the French Foreign Ministry to observe the elections . He then reported on Latin America, Europe and the Middle East for the French daily Liberation from Brussels .

Guez worked from 2000 to 2005 as an employee for international economic issues for La Tribune, among other things on the European Union and petroleum policy. Since then he has also worked for various national and international newspapers and magazines.

Between 2005 and 2006 lived Guez as part of a European journalist Fellowship with a residency program of the Senate of Berlin as a guest of the Free University of Berlin in Berlin . The French Foreign Ministry sent him in 2009 to head an observer mission to Afghanistan and Pakistan .

Guez has lived in Paris since 2009 and works as a cultural reporter from France for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung . Of the seven books he has published by 2020, four have been translated into German.

Prizes and awards

2007: Prix du meilleur livre d'histoire et de recherche juive for L'Impossible retour
2016: with Lars Kraume: German film award for the best screenplay: "The state against Fritz Bauer"
2017: Prix Renaudot for La disparition de Josef Mengele

Publications

with Frédéric Encel: La grande alliance. De la Tchétchénie à l'Irak. Un nouvel ordre mondial . Flammarion, Paris 2003, ISBN 2-08-080096-5 .
L'Impossible return. Une histoire des juifs en Allemagne depuis 1945 . Flammarion, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-08-122478-0 .
- German by Helmut Reuter: The homecoming of the unwanted. A history of the Jews in Germany after 1945 . Piper, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-492-05262-7 .
with Jean-Marc Gonin: La Chute du mur . Fayard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-63312-1 .
- German by Helmut Reuter: The wall falls. A factual novel . Piper, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-05233-7 .
American whimsy . Flammarion, Paris 2012, ISBN 978-2-08-126952-1 .
Éloge de l'esquive . Editions Grasset et Fasquelle, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-246-81189-3 .
Les révolutions de Jacques Koskas. Novel. Belford, Paris 2014, ISBN 978-2-7144-5792-9 .
- German by Nicola Denis: Koskas and the chaos of love . Structure, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-351-03480-1 .
La disparition de Josef Mengele . Éditions Grasset et Fasquelle, Paris 2017, ISBN 978-2-246-85587-3 .
- German by Nicola Denis: The disappearance of Josef Mengele . Structure, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-351-03728-4 .

literature

Kai Nonnenmacher, “Mengeles Disappearance: Olivier Guez on the Threshold of Contemporary Witness”, in Commitment and Diversity: Frank-Rutger Hausmann on his 75th birthday , ed. by Wolfgang Asholt, Ursula Bähler, Bernhard Hurch, Henning Krauß and Kai Nonnenmacher, Romance Studies: Supplements 4 (Munich: Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München, 2018), ISBN 978-3-95477-083-0 , online: http: // www. romanischestudien.de/index.php/rst/article/view/589/1284

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Léopoldine Leblanc, Isabel Contreras: Le Renaudot 2017 décerné à Olivier Guez. In: LivresHebdo.fr. November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017 (French).

personal data
SURNAME	Guez, Olivier
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH	Strasbourg , France

[1] Léopoldine Leblanc, Isabel Contreras: Le Renaudot 2017 décerné à Olivier Guez. In: LivresHebdo.fr. November 6, 2017, accessed November 6, 2017 (French).