Pierre Joffroy

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Pierre Joffroy (* 1929 in Lorraine ) is a French writer , dramaturge and journalist for Paris Match , Liberation and L'Express . He currently lives in Paris .

Joffroy published many novels, plays and reports in France .

The writer Joffroy studied the biography of Kurt Gerstein for 30 years . He followed the traces of his life. A book emerged from his research (Der Spion Gottes Kurt Gerstein - an SS officer in the resistance?), Which describes the fate of Kurt Gerstein on the one hand and the author's decades of search for traces on the other.

In an interview with Deutschlandfunk, he made his opinion known that today he considers Kurt Gerstein to be "one of the most important people of the Second World War".

Important works

  • Un séjour à Alcatraz, novel 1965
  • Les Prétendants, novellas 1966
  • 1416 ou Punition, play 1971
  • Parfait Amour, novel 1986.
  • The Spy of God Kurt Gerstein - an SS officer in the resistance ?, May 2002, translated by Ulrich Kunzmann , ISBN 3746680174

Publications

Pierre Joffroy, Le retour des bourreaux [The Return of the Executioners], in: PARIS MATCH, No. 831, Paris, March 13, 1965, pp. 3–5, 7, 9. (Refers to the Munich Trial of 1965)

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personal data
SURNAME Joffroy, Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, dramaturge and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Lorraine