Robert Bober
Robert Bober (born November 17, 1931 in Berlin ) is a French writer , documentary filmmaker and filmmaker . He has lived in France since 1933. He has been a director for television since 1967, he is the author of almost 140 documentaries. His first novel Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? was published in 1993 and received the Prix du Livre Inter literature prize in 1994 .
Life
Robert Bober was born in 1931 to Jewish parents from Poland. In 1933 his parents fled from the National Socialists and emigrated to France. In July 1942 they were warned by friends, which enabled them to avoid a mass raid (“Aktion spring wind”).
A few years later, Bober left school after having obtained the certificat d'études primaires . At 16 he began an apprenticeship as a tailor, completed it and worked in this profession until the age of 22. Then he became a potter; in the summers he led therapy projects with sick children, especially with Holocaust orphans who had lost all social contact.
In the 1950s, Bober met François Truffaut and became his assistant in the films Les Quatre Cents Coups (1959), Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) and Jules et Jim (1962). In 1967 he shot his first documentary for television (Cholem Aleichem, un écrivain de langue Yiddish). In the 1960s and 1970s, his documentaries mainly dealt with the post-war period and the aftermath of the Holocaust.
Filmography
Feature films
- Cholem Aleichem, un écrivain de langue yiddish, 1967
- La génération d'après ( Les femmes aussi series ), 1970
- La cloche et ses clochardes , 1971
- T'es un adult, toi! ( Du côté des enfants series ), 1972
- C'est ainsi qu'on invente le spectacle, 1974
- Réfugié provenant d'Allemagne: apatride d'origine polonaise, 1976
- Provisoire address: Les Molines, 1977
- La photographie hors-cadre, 1978
- Récits d'Ellis Island (with Georges Perec ), 1979
- Qu'est-ce qui se passe avec la culture? 1987
- L'ombre portée, 1993
- En remontant la rue Vilin, 1993
Documentaries with Pierre Dumayet
About 40, including:
- Queneau, Bove, Buber, Schnitzler ( Lire c'est vivre series ), 1970
- L'esprit des lois, 1989
- Perec, Flaubert, Dumas, Poussin ( Lire et écrire et Lire et relire series ), 1990–1994
- Alechinsky, l'œil du peintre, 1996
- À la lumière de "J'accuse", 1998
- Queneau, Proust, Tardieu, Valéry, Supervielle, Reverdy, Louys Pierre ( Un siècle d'écrivains series ), 1998-2000
- Balzac: quelques traits de caractère, 1999
- Roland Dubillard, 2001
- Flaubert, Van Gogh, Dostoïevsky ( Correspondances series ), 2000
- Vienna before the night of 2016
Fonts
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Récits d'Ellis Island. histoires d'errance et d'espoir. 1980
- Stories from Ellis Island or How to Make American . Translated by Eugen Helmlé . Wagenbach, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8031-3592-3
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Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? 1993
- What's new from the war? Translated by Tobias Scheffel . Kunstmann, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-88897-156-X
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Berg and Beck. 1999
- Berg and Beck. Translated by Tobias Scheffel. Kunstmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-88897-232-9
- Laissées-pour-compte. 2005
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On ne peut plus dormir tranquille quand on a une fois ouvert les yeux. 2010
- Once you open your eyes, you can no longer sleep peacefully . Translated by Tobias Scheffel. Kunstmann, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-88897-725-1
Prizes and awards
- Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? (1993), Prix du Livre Inter 1994
- Récits d'Ellis Island (texte de George Perec) (1979), Prix du Festival de Florence 1980
- Grand Prix de la Société civile des auteurs pour l'ensemble de son œuvre en 1991
- En remontant la rue Vilin (1992), Fipa d'argent 1992
- Prix Max Cukierman , 2013
Adaptations for the theater
- Quoi de neuf sur la guerre? à partir du roman de Robert Bober, mise en scene de Charles Tordjman , 1995.
- Berg et Beck, adaptation de Robert Bober, staged by François Clavier, 2001, Théâtre de la Manufacture
literature
- Birgit Schlachter: Notations of absence. Jewish-French literature after the Shoah. Series: Jüdische Moderne, 4. Böhlau, Cologne 2006 ISBN 9783412294052 (on Bober: 1 chapter of 5)
- Review by Elvira Grözinger (PDF; 233 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Robert Bober in the catalog of the German National Library
- Short biography and reviews of works by Robert Bober at perlentaucher.de
- The official website of the Berlin International Literature Festival
- Robert Bober in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- POL Editeurs
- Théâtre contemporain: présentation de Robert Bober
- Robert Bober in the collection of articles in the Innsbruck newspaper archive
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bober, Robert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French writer, documentary filmmaker and filmmaker |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 17, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin , German Empire |