Philistine Castle

Philister Castle is a short story by the French author Jacques Decour . The story was published in France in 1932. In it Decour describes his experiences under his real name Daniel Decourdemanche as an exchange teacher (“assistant de français”) at the cathedral high school in Magdeburg .

Grab Decours on the Cimetière Montmartre

After the murder of the resistance fighter Daniel Decourdemanche in 1942, a second edition appeared in France shortly after the end of the Second World War. Louis Aragon characterized them as follows in 1945:

“Determined to observe everything he encounters objectively, he avoids the prejudices that are usually mixed up when looking at German life. He is careful not to just want to find what he imagined before leaving, like a tourist on his way. "

A German translation was published in 2014.

expenditure

• Jacques Decour: Philistine Castle. Gallimard, Paris 1932.
• Jacques Decour: Philistine Castle. Gallimard, Paris 1945.
  • Jacques Decour: Philistine Castle. Translated from French and with a foreword by Stefan Ripplinger . AB - The Other Library , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8477-3005-7 .

Web links

• Philisterburg , entry in the DNB
• Review notes on Philisterburg at perlentaucher.de
• Site of the German publisher
• Annett Gröschner : Steel helmets and others , review in: Der Freitag , April 2, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Aragon (ed.): Comme je vous en donne l'exemple ... . Texts présentés par Aragon; suivi de Philister Castle. 1945, quoted from Decour, Jacques: Philisterburg , publisher's announcement at Die Andere Bibliothek