Régine Deforges

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Régine Deforges (1996)

Régine Deforges (born August 15, 1935 in Montmorillon , Département Vienne , † April 3, 2014 in Paris ) was a French feminist writer and erotic literature publisher.

Life

Deforges wanted to leave the small town of Montmorillon in Poitou at an early age , where she was sent to various Catholic schools such as the École Saint-Martial. When she was 15 years old, her intimate diary, which she had kept about her love affair with a classmate of the same age, was stolen. The publication caused a scandal. The volume of stories published in 1978, Le Cahier volé (literally: The stolen notebook, published in German with the title Zärtliches Tagebuch. Roman ), makes these events of 1950/51 its theme.

In 1967, at the age of 32, Deforges was one of the first women to set up her own publishing house in France . The publisher's name L'Or du Temps (German: the gold of the times) goes back to a bon mot by André Breton , "Je cherche l'or du temps." As a publisher, Deforges had to fight censorship measures because of allegedly offensive erotic literature and legal proceedings were initiated against her, for example in relation to Le Con d'Irène (literally: Irenes Fotze , published in German in 1969 with the title Irène ) by Louis Aragon . In 1980 Deforges directed the film Les Filles de madame Claude (literally: Madame Claude's daughters). In the 1990s and since 2000, several film and television productions were made based on her works and for which she wrote some of the scripts herself. Deforge's novel, The Blue Bicycle (1981) became a bestseller in France with translations into 22 languages. The novel is about love and survival during the German occupation 1941–1945. In the following 16 years Deforges created a ten-volume series in which the protagonists also live in Algiers and Cuba beyond the post-war period. In 2000, a television series with this material followed.

From 1989 to 1992 Deforges was president of the French writers' association, the Société des Gens de Lettres de France (SGDL) (literally: Society of French writers). In addition, she was a member of the jury of the Prix ​​Femina feminist literary prize for several years . In 2006 she resigned in solidarity with fellow writer Madeleine Chapsal , who had previously been excluded. In autumn 2013, after three years of work, Deforges published her 480-page autobiography with the title L'Enfant du 15 août (literally: The child of August 15) by Robert Laffont.

Deforges lived and worked in Paris. She was most recently married to Pierre Wiazemsky (Wiaz), the cartoonist for the weekly newspaper Nouvel Observateur , and before that to fellow publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert . She fathered her two daughters with these men, and from her first marriage to the film producer Pierre Spengler came her son Franck Spengler, who, after studying history, followed in his mother's footsteps as an erotic publisher and author.

Régine Deforges died in April 2014 as a result of a heart attack at the Hôpital Cochin in Paris. French President François Hollande paid tribute to Deforges in an official statement according to the wording of the dpa report "as a rebel who was passionate about feminism and the fight against taboos."

Publications

Novels

  • La Révolte des nonnes . (Fayard, 1981), adapted for a French TV series as L'Enfant des Loups in 1991
    • The she-wolf of Poitiers. Novel . Translated from the French by Sylvia Strasser. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1984, ISBN 3-404-10434-X .
  • L'Orage . (Editions Blanche, 1986)
    • The storm. Novel . Translated from the French by Ginette Kirn. Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-24689-3 .
  • Pour l'amour de Marie salad . (Editions Albin Michel 1987)
  • Sous le ciel de Novgorod . (Fayard, 1989)
  • Rencontres ferroviaires . (Fayard, 1999)
    • The traveller. Novel . From the French by Hilde Wollenhaupt. Ullstein, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-548-24989-2 .
  • La Hire, ou la Colère de Jeanne . historical novel about Joan of Arc
  • Le collier de perles (Editions Albin Michel, 2004) ISBN 2-226-15510-4 / 2006: Le Livre de Poche (LGF), ISBN 2-253-11767-6 .

The blue bike

  • 1981: La Bicyclette bleue . (Fayard) / 1987: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
    • 2001: the blue bike. Novel . Translated from the French by Sylvia Strasser and Claus Sprick. Ullstein, Munich, ISBN 3-548-25070-X .
  • 1983: 101, avenue Henri Martin . (Fayard) / 1987: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
    • 1999: The white lily. Novel . From the French by Hilde Wollenhaupt. Ullstein, Munich, ISBN 3-548-24569-2 .
  • 1985: Le Diable en rit encore . (Fayard) / 1988: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
    • 2002: The red glow. Novel . From the French by Hilde Wollenhaupt. Ullstein, Munich, ISBN 3-548-25314-8 .
  • 1991: Noir tango . (Fayard) / 1993: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 1994: Rue de la Soie . (Fayard) / 1996: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 1996: La Dernière colline . (Fayard) / 1999: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 1999: Cuba libre! . (Fayard) / 2001: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 2001: Alger, ville blanche . (Fayard) / 2003: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 2003: Les Généraux du crépuscule . (Fayard) / 2005: Le Livre de Poche (LGF)
  • 2007: Et quand vient la fin du voyage . (Fayard 2007)

Essays

  • O m'a dit, entretiens avec l'auteur d'Histoire d'O . Conversations with the author of the history of the O. , Éditions Pauvert 1975 ISBN 978-2-7202-1358-8
    • The "O" told me. Background to a bestseller . Régine Deforges in conversation with Pauline Réage . Translated from the French by Simon Saint-Honoré. Munich, Herbig, Berlin 1976, ISBN 3-7766-0779-3 .
  • Entre femmes . Éditions Blanche / Éditions Robert Laffont 1999
  • Fragments . (France Loisirs, 1997)
  • Les Non-dits de Régine Deforges . (Stock, 1997)
  • Roger Stéphane ou la passion d'admirer (Fayard / Éditions Spengler, 1995)
  • Camilo . (Fayard, 1999)
  • L'Enfant du 15 août, Mémoires . Editions Robert Laffont, 2013, ISBN 978-2-221-11310-3 .

stories

  • Blanche et Lucie . Narrative (Fayard, 1976)
    • Claire and Lucie . Translated from the French by Edda Maria Pinto. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-10283-5 .
  • Le Cahier volé . Narrative inspired by an experience at the École Saint-Martial de Montmorillon (Fayard 1978)
    • Affectionate diary. Novel . Translated from the French by Ulrike Wiesenmeyer. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-499-14493-X .
  • Les Contes pervers , her first volume of erotic stories (Fayard 1980), later adapted as a screenplay for the cinema.
    • The black Milan: erot. Narratives . Translated from the French by Brigitte Schenker. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-14926-5 .
  • Les Enfants de Blanche , a continuation of Blanche et Lucie . Fayard 1982
    • Claire's children . From the Franz. By Edda Maria Pinto. Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1983, ISBN 3-404-10293-2 .
  • Sur les bords de la Gartempe . Anthology, includes Blanche et Lucie , Les Enfants de Blanche and Le Cahier volé . France loisirs, 1985, ISBN 978-2724225006
  • Lola et quelques autres . Stories. (Fayard, 1983)
    • Lola: erotic variations . Translated from the French by Laureen Carnevale. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1980, ISBN 3-498-01234-7 .
  • Troubles de femmes . Novellas. (Editions Spengler, 1994)
  • La petite fille au manteau rose , story in Chemin faisant , a collection of short stories about public transport (Le Serpent à plumes 2001)
  • Léa au pays des dragons . (1982)
  • L'Arche de Noé de grand-mère (Éditions Calligram, 1995)
  • Léa au pays des dragons . (New edition by Editis, 1991)
  • Léa et les diables . (Editions du Seuil, 1991)
  • Léa et les fantômes . (Editions du Seuil, 1992)
  • Le Couvent de sœur Isabelle . (Editions du Seuil, 1992)
  • Les Chiffons de Lucie . (Editions Calligram, 1993)

Youth books

  • L'Apocalypse de saint Jean (Editions Ramsay, 1985)
  • Les Poupées de grand-mère (Editions Stock, 1994)

Filmography (selection)

Director

  • 1980: Les Filles de madame Claude (sensational German distribution title: Unrestrained eroticism )

Web links

Commons : Régine Deforges  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c Mort de Régine Deforges, l'auteure de “La Bicyclette bleue” , obituary in Le Monde of April 4, 2014, accessed April 4, 2014
  2. ↑ Josyane Savigneau, Régine Deforges, une odeur de soufre , Le Monde , December 30, 2013, accessed April 4, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud, Régine Deforges nous a quittés ( Memento of the original of April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , (Obituary of the Acting Vice President of the SGDL), accessed April 4, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sgdl.org
  4. ^ French writer Régine Deforges has died. Süddeutsche Zeitung , April 4, 2014, accessed on August 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Deforges, Regine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Montmorillon , Vienne department
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2014
Place of death Paris