Jacques Lanzmann

See also: Lanzmann

Jacques Lanzmann , born the May 4th 1927 with Wood-Doves and deceased the June 21st 2006 with Paris, was an author, scenario writer and lyric writer French.

Biography

Jacques Lanzmann was wire of Jewish immigrants of Eastern Europe working in the clothes industry.

In 1939, his/her father entrusted it to owners as farmhand, in Auvergne. In 1943, it entered with his Claude brother resistance. Stopped in Aix, it was very close being shot but escaped. It will draw from these years of the novels such Which Lives! (1965) or Jacquiot (1986).

He was also producer and scenario writer, in particular films of Philippe Labro.

Member of the Communist party, it was excluded from it in 1957. He is deceased the June 21st 2006 with Paris, city to which he had paid homage in the song He is five hours, Paris wakes up . Its funerals, organized in advance by itself, proceeded the June 26th with Paris, with crématorium of the Cimetière of the Father-Lachaise.

He was very attached to the area Auvergne, and in particular the Mount-Mouchet (Haute-Loire).

He Maria 4 times and had in all 7 children. He was the brother of Claude Lanzmann, author of Shoah (film) .

Literature

After having practiced many trades, as welder, house painter, painter (1948-1955) or minor in Chile (1952-1953), it enter in literature in 1954 with the ice is broken . It is Simone de Beauvoir which notices it the première.
As from this year there, its literary career is marked by its activity of criticism to the French Lettres, by creation with Jean-Claude Lattès of Special editions and the creation and the literary direction of the company Jacques Lanzmann and Seghers editors . He was even journalist with the Express train of 1960 with 1962 and took part in the creation of the magazine Him.

At the end of its life, although affirming atheistic free thinker and , it raises the question of the Jewish Histoire with the diptych the lost tribe , comprising two works: never forgets which we are (1999) and Imagine the promised land (2000), putting in scene Manassés, of the legendary Jews, which crossed three thousand years of History by keeping intact their faith as a God and their hope in Israël.
Its Romance last but one: Street of the Rose trees (2002), involves the reader in a history in charge of tragic events and rich in revelations on perceptions of the Shoah.

The musical world

He is author of more than 150 songs, of which many titles for Jacques Dutronc and some for France Gall, Régine, Jean Guidoni, Zizi Jeanmaire, Enrico Macias, Mireille Darc, Dani, Sacha Distel, Pascal Danel, Pascal Obispo, Bernard Menez.

In 1965, Jacques Lanzmann meets Jacques Dutronc. From their friendship, will be born a profitable collaboration of almost ten years, Jacques Dutronc adapting his musics to the texts full with liveliness of Lanzmann. Some immense successes are born from their duet insolate, as It is five Paris hours wakes up in 1967, Co-signed by the wife of Jacques Lanzmann: Anne Segalen, who often worked with them. With beginning of the year 70, he writes more poetic texts, such the small garden , in 1972. In 1982, it signs two songs for the album Guerre and farts . In 2000, Lanzmann and Dutronc find last once for the album Madam the existence .

It adapted in French the Opéra-rock Hair . This work, refused by Serge Gainsbourg, was one of its independent sources of incomes.

In 2006, it takes part in the album of Elodie Frégé, gaining Star Academy 2003.

Walk

Faithful to its currency: “ If you want to be, starts with you to lose ”, Jacques Lanzmann was large impassioned walk and voyages, to which it devoted several books.

In the Eighties, wearied by the records of the living rooms of Parisian writers, it includes the road. It is impassioned for the walking, traverses flat and sommets.
In 1983, it carries out a wandering of 700 km of 24 days through the desert of the Negev, on the traces of Moïse. Since the Jordan, it joined Jerusalem in the taxi, then walk towards the south towards Massada, Eilat, crosses the peninsula of the the Sinai to join Djebel Moussa (Moïse mount, or Mont the Sinai), the Catherine mount and Djebel Umm Shaumar, culminating points of the Sinai. Its report appears of exclusiveness in March 1984 in number 61 in the magazine Géo.
In 1985, he is the first Westerner to carry out the connection Lhassa (Tibet) - Katmandou and, two years later, he makes a success of the crossing of the desert of Taklamakan, in Chine.
At the time of the exit in 1997 of the Wire of the Himalayas , still and always inspired by the heights of Tibet, Jacques Lanzmann is called by Michel Tournier “ the largest walker of the contemporary letters ”.

Thanks to this passion, It was starting from 1997 chronicler on the television channel Voyage.

Novels and accounts

  • the ice is broken (1954), Laffont

  • the Rat of America (1956)
  • Cuir of Russia (1957)
  • the Passengers of Sidi-Brahim (1958)
  • a tyrant on sand (1959)
  • Viva Castro (1959)
  • Which lives! (1965)
  • Vangauguin (1968)
  • Mémoire of an amnesic (1971)
  • the New Territories (1973)
  • the Tadpole (1976)
  • Trans-Siberian (1978) the
  • All the ways lead to oneself (1979)
  • Rue of the Fondlings (1981)
  • the White whale (1982), Laffont
  • the blue LAMA (1984), Lattès
  • the Seventh heaven (1985)
  • Fou of walk (1985)
  • With the altitude of the gods (1986)
  • Jacquiot (1986)
  • Coffee crime (1987)
  • the Age of love (1987)
  • Insane of walk (1988), Slats
  • Guérillans (1989)
  • Hotel the Sahara (1990), Slats
  • the Robber of chances (1992), Slats
  • God of the butterflies (1994)
  • the rajah (1995)
  • the universal Guide of the flirt without borders (1996)
  • the Son of the Himalayas (1997)
  • the Memory of the gods (1998)
  • never forgets who we are (1999), Plon
  • Imagine the promised land (2000), Plon
  • the House of dreadful (2001), the Rock
  • Rue of the Rose trees (2002), the Rock
  • the Co as in Marrakech (2004), the Rock
  • a family life, January (2006), Plon

Reports

For the magazine Géo:

  • Peru: Voyage to the country of the perfect age (n° 53)
  • Siberia: the large train of small the far east (n° 59)
  • Negev: I walked with Moïse (n° 61)

Career

External bonds

  • Video '' Lanzmann, Jacques '' discusses on his book the Tadpole , a site of the files of the French-speaking Switzerland Télévision

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