Vladimir Dimitrijević

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Vladimir Dimitrijevic ( Serbian - Cyrillic Владимир Димитријевић * 28. March 1934 in Skopje , today in northern Macedonia ; † 28. June 2011 in arm at Clamecy , Nièvre , France ) in which was Switzerland active publishers and writers of Yugoslav or Serbian descent .

Life

Dimitrijević was able to study Tito as a good footballer in Yugoslavia , although his father was imprisoned for years as a bourgeois Serbian nationalist under Tito.

Dimitrijević, however, fled his home country in 1954 without a passport and made his way through Milan to Switzerland. He worked in various professions as a gardener, roofer, factory worker, night watchman, etc., including in a bookstore. He became a professional footballer at FC Grenchen and thus received a residence permit. He eventually became a publisher and, as a lover of literature, founded the L'Âge d'Homme publishing house in Lausanne in French-speaking Switzerland in 1966, together with Dominique de Roux from the L'Herne publishing house . With this publisher he again published the entire journal intime by Henri-Frédéric Amiel .

From 1973 Dimitrijević published the Slavica reprints series together with Jacques Catteau and Georges Nivat . Western Europe owes the discovery of numerous Slavic-speaking writers to this series, such as Osip Mandelstam , Wassili Grossman , Karel Čapek , Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz , Alexander Zinoviev and Vladimir Volkoff . He was the editor of Politica Hermetica magazine . He headed the Association Les Amis de Pierre Gripari and was editor of the association's newsletter. He also wrote for various magazines and journals.

Dimitrijević 'essay Yougoslavie. La stratégie de l'aveuglement caused very strong controversial and polemical reactions in 1992 due to its positive position on Serbian nationalism. He lost some of his French-speaking Swiss authors. His book about football was reprinted in 2006.

Dimitrijević died in a head-on collision of his car with a tractor near Clamecy, where his publishing house has an office, on the way to Paris.

Publications (selection)

  • Personne déplacée. Entretiens avec Jean-Louis Kuffer , P.-M. Favre, Lausanne / Paris 1986
  • À la rencontre de Georges Haldas . Essais et témoignages , publié à l'occasion du 70e Anniversaire de Georges Haldas, François Debluë et Jean Vuilleumier with the collaboration of Vladimir Dimitrijević, L'Âges d'Homme, Lausanne 1987
  • Yougoslavie. La stratégie de l'aveuglement , published by L'Institut serbe à Lausanne, L'Âge d'Homme, Paris / Lausanne 1992
  • La vie est un ballon rond , Éditions de Fallois, Paris 1998, newly published: La Table ronde, Paris 2006

Web links

Commons : Vladimir Dimitrijević  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Publisher without a passport. In FAZ of July 5, 2011, page 36
personal data
SURNAME Dimitrijević, Vladimir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss publisher and writer of Yugoslav descent
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Skopje , Kingdom of Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 2011
Place of death Armes , Nièvre department , France