René Trintzius

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René Trintzius (born July 28, 1898 in Rouen , Département Seine-Maritime , † January 24, 1953 in Paris ) was a French lawyer and writer.

Trintzius was the eldest son of an architect. After completing his school days, he studied law and was then able to practice as a lawyer. He made his first literary attempts during his studies. His plays, which premiered in Paris on the stages of the Théâtre l'reuvre and the Comédie Française, were successful .

It was through these plays that the writer André Gide became aware of Trintzius and encouraged him. Ultimately, however, Trintzius was not granted any lasting success. Forgotten by literary criticism and the public, he died at the age of 54 in Paris.

reception

From 1934 Trintzius no longer published works of fiction. He dealt almost exclusively with the philosophy of the Enlightenment and publishes a few non-fiction books on it. After the occupation of France by the Germans in World War II, the works of René Trintzius - above all his "Germany" - were on the index .

His work “Germany” is close to Franz Kafka's “ America ” and, when it appeared, was considered a counterpart to Yvan Goll's “Sodom Berlin”.

Works (selection)

Fiction
  • Le soleil du père . Gallimard, Paris 1927.
  • La rose des vents . Gallimard, Paris 1929.
  • Germany . Gallimard, Paris 1929 (German: Fourier, Wiesbaden 2003, ISBN 3-932412-42-7 ).
  • Fin et commençement . Gallimard, Paris 1932.
  • La bête écarlate . Gallimard, Paris 1934.
Plays
  • Poudre d'or. Conte en trois actes . Gallimard, Paris 1928.
  • le septième jour . Gallimard, Paris 1931.
  • La vie privée de Jean-Jacques Rousseau . Hachette, Paris 1946.
  • Au seuil du monde invisible. Nouveau traite de métaphysique . Edition "Omnium litteraire", Paris 1951.
  • La grande peur . Athéna, Paris 1946.
Non-fiction
  • Jacques Cazotte ou le XVIII siècle inconnu. Matérialisme et spiritualisme . Athéna, Paris 1944.
  • Charlotte Corday . 1768-1793 . Hachette, Paris 1947.
  • John Law et la naissance du dirigisme . SFELT, Paris 1950.

literature

  • Marlen Bartsch: In search of an almost forgotten author from the interwar period - René Trintzius and his novel Germany (1929). wvb Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin [2019], ISBN 978-3-96138-144-9 . (Master's thesis, FU Berlin, 2009)

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personal data
SURNAME Trintzius, René
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer and writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Rouen
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1953
Place of death Paris