Albertine Sarrazin

Albertine Sarrazin ( born September 17, 1937 in Algiers, † July 10, 1967 in Montpellier) was a French writer.

Life

Albertine was adopted at eighteen months from an already older French couple, raped with just ten years by an unknown person and burned down by the adoptive parents to a reform school. Then she spends most of her life in boarding schools, reformatories and behind prison walls. The clearance on the day of Baccalaureate uses them to escape to Paris. There she herself as a prostitute and thefts through to her, her lover out of the asylum again meets Emilienne. Together they commit an armed robbery. Albertine is sentenced to seven years in juvenile prison. With nineteen she manages to escape. She jumps over the prison wall, breaks your foot and is seriously injured picked up by a man. Julien Sarrazin is also an escaped prisoner, first her friend, then her lover, and finally her husband. The eight years of their marriage they spend mostly separated from each other in jail, arrested again for theft and receiving stolen property. During this time, they write each day secret letters.

In prison Albertine begins to write down their memories and their jail everyday. 1964 in freedom, they formulated from these notes their first novels L' knucklebones and La Cavalle (German secret messages ) that appear with intercession by Simone de Beauvoir in 1965 and provide a female prison and criminal novels for a sensation. The same year, her third novel, La Traversière follows ( dt levels).

1966 Albertine Sarrazin the "Prix des Quatre juries " was awarded. The following year, she died 29 years old at the consequences of a kidney operation.

L' knucklebones was filmed with Horst Buchholz.

Works

• Stages. Desch, Munich, 1970, ISBN 3-420-04592-1.
• Secret message. Desch, Munich / Vienna / Basel 1967.
• The astragalus. Desch, Munich 1966.
• Astragalus. With an afterword by Patti Smith, German by Claudia Steinitz, Hanser Berlin, 2013.