Pierre Goldman

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Pierre Goldman (born June 22, 1944 in Lyon , † September 20, 1979 in Paris ) was a French writer and worked for Liberation and Les Temps Modernes .

Life

Goldman's parents were members of the French resistance . After his parents separated, Goldman grew up with his father and the mother moved back to Poland. His half-brother is the French composer and performer Jean-Jacques Goldman . As a student, Goldman was a supporter of the Communist Student Union at the Sorbonne . Politicized at an early age, he fled to Havana before doing military service , from there to Venezuela and fighting as a guerrilla for 14 months .

After returning to France, Goldman committed several robberies and was arrested. He was also charged with an unsolved murder of two pharmacists. Goldman was therefore sentenced to life imprisonment for robbery and murder.

Goldman wrote the book Souvenirs obscurs d'un Juif polonais né en France while imprisoned . Goldman stated that France, as the country of origin of modern European democracy, was also susceptible to totalitarian leadership. After the book was published, the French left forced the trial to resume.

At the new trial, Goldman was acquitted of the murder charges and his term was reduced. The process caused a judicial scandal in France because of anti-Semitic hostility and threats against Goldman's sympathizers .

After his reduced term ended, Goldman, who was still on parole, was shot dead on the street in Paris in 1979. The nationalist group Honneur de la Police (about honor the police ) confessed to the murder . In April 2006, the Liberation newspaper published an interview in which former police officer Jean-Pierre Maïone alleged that one of his former informants admitted to murdering Goldman on behalf of the GAL . The GAL was a right-wing Spanish terrorist group that was also active in France and had the closest ties to the post-Franco Spanish state.

A few weeks before his death, Goldman was interviewed by the Le Monde newspaper . Here he uttered the programmatic sentences about his Jewish identity: “Nothing about me is really Jewish, but it is the circumstance and the condition of my life. It's a place that I existentially fill with this and that ... And why is it so important? Because of anti-Semitism. Because of the hatred. The only answer to the question of what it means to be a Jew today is Auschwitz . "

The Israeli historian Yair Auron certified Goldman as one of the last "Jewish radicals" to lead the May 68 riots .

Works

  • Pierre Goldman & Michel Butel: Souvenirs obscurs d'un juif polonais né en France , 1975, again 2005, ISBN 978-2-02-037176-6
  • L'ordinaire mésaventure d'Archibald Rapoport (1977)

literature

Graphic novel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sebastian Voigt : The Jewish May '68: Pierre Goldman, Daniel Cohn-Bendit and André Glucksmann in post-war France . Göttingen [Germany] 2016, ISBN 978-3-525-37036-0 , p. 49-76 .
  2. ↑ "Mon indic a flingué Pierre Goldman", in: Liberation , April 20, 2006 (French)
personal data
SURNAME Goldman, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon
DATE OF DEATH 20th September 1979
Place of death Paris