Renaud Camus

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Renaud Camus (2019)
Château de Plieux (14th-16th centuries) Gers

Renaud Camus (born August 10, 1946 in Chamalières , Puy-de-Dôme department ) is a French writer, philosopher and politician. He has been the editor of a journal since 1985, and in 2002 he founded the Parti de l'In-nocence (German about the party of innocence ). He is seen as one of the pioneers of the right-wing extremist Front National , in particular because of his ideology of the “ Great Exchange ” or “Umvolkung” . According to Spiegel TV from October 2019, "with his right-wing extremist and ethnic texts , Renaud Camus provides the breeding ground for attacks such as those in Halle or Christchurch ."

Life

Camus was born in Chamalières in Auvergne and now lives at his Château de Plieux in the Gers department . He spent part of his studies in Great Britain and the USA.

He is committed to the rights of gays and lesbians. His book publications deal in many ways with his own homosexuality .

"The great exchange"

In his political writings he claims a loss of identity and culture (" déculturation ") in France due to immigration. His book Le grand remplacement (German, for example, The great [population] exchange ) was well received by right-wing extremists in France and in German-speaking countries . In particular, the völkisch - nationalist Identitarian Movement relies heavily on the ideology of the "Great Exchange", according to which the French (or German or Austrian) government is planning and implementing a "dissolution" of the people. Camus is also serving a skepticism about globalization, according to which globalization has declared everything - goods, production facilities and people - to be exchangeable.

It was translated into German by Martin Lichtmesz , the Austrian translator of the New Right , and it was published by the publishing house Antaios, the thought leader of the New Right in Germany Götz Kubitschek , in whose environment the Identitarian Movement was massively advertised.

In April 2014, a Paris court sentenced Camus to a fine of 4,000 euros for inciting hatred and violence for calling Muslim immigrants part of a "conquest of France".

reception

Lorenz Jäger described Camus' first novel Tricks in German in the FAZ as "the book of a proud homosexual"; Revolt against the Great Exchange, on the other hand, should serve "to prove the causal dependence of a dwindling sense of community and neighborhood trust from growing ethnic mix".

Works

  • Tricks . With a foreword by Roland Barthes . Bruno Gmünder, Berlin 1999, 2 volumes (French first edition 1978).
  • Revolt against the Great Exchange . Antaios, Schnellroda 2016, ISBN 978-3-944422-23-7 (French first edition 2011).

literature

Web links

Commons : Renaud Camus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Comité Directeur du parti de l'In-nocence. Internet presence of the party (French).
  2. ↑ Conspiracy theorist Renaud Camus: The right hatred from France. Post from Spiegel TV on Facebook, October 28, 2019 (5:26 minutes).
  3. ↑ a b Michaela Wiegel: Le Pen's secret thought leader. FAZ , September 18, 2015.
  4. ^ A b Danijel Majic: Right Movement in Hessen. Right: "Stop the big exchange". Frankfurter Rundschau , July 3, 2015.
  5. ^ L'écrivain Renaud Camus condamné pour provocation à la haine contre les musulmans. Le Monde , April 10, 2014 (French).
  6. ^ Lorenz Jäger: Identity Politics and Local Communities. Is there the “Great Exchange” that the French writer Renaud Camus speaks of? And if so, what effects does it have on trust in localities? In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , February 24, 2016, p. N3.
personal data
SURNAME Camus, Renaud
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer, philosopher and politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Chamalières , Puy-de-Dôme department