Pierre Séguy
Pierre Séguy , actually Otto Robert Steinschneider (born November 5, 1921 in Vienna , † December 20, 2004 in Saarbrücken ) was an Austro-French resistance fighter and pioneer of French chanson in Germany .
Life
In 1938 he emigrated with his parents to Grenoble , where he also attended school and spent his early years as a journalist. After the German troops marched into the unoccupied southern France, he spent his time in the Resistance in the Drôme department.
During the Third Reich , Pierre Séguy was a resistance fighter and became a French elector. After the war he became head of the Austrian broadcasting station Dornbirn . At the time of the French occupation, Pierre Séguy was broadcasting manager at Radio Saarbrücken from September 1947 . From 1965 Séguy worked again for the Saarländischer Rundfunk and presented programs such as C'est ça qu'on chante en France and Chanson de Paris for over 30 years . He organized chanson evenings and the Chanson Festival in Saarbrücken.
Pierre Séguy, who knew the greats of the chanson personally - including stars like Juliette Gréco , Georges Moustaki , Jacques Brel and Georges Brassens - made a significant contribution to making the chanson known in Germany.
Over time, Pierre Séguy built up an extensive chanson collection that includes over 40,000 titles and numerous chanson magazines, press dossiers, broadcast texts, essays and newspaper clippings. He donated his collection to the Archive for Text Music Research in Innsbruck . Pierre Séguy was also an important philatelist and co-founder of the Philatelist Association in Saarland and the Saar Handbuch.
Pierre Séguy died in 2004 at the age of 83. He was married to the journalist and actress Irmengard Peller-Séguy .
Honors
- Honorary Citizen of the University of Innsbruck (2002)
- Knight of the French Legion of Honor (1999)
- Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
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Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Séguy, Pierre |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Steinschneider, Otto Robert (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austro-French resistance fighter and chanson expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 5, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 2004 |
| Place of death | Saarbrücken |