Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt

Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt ( born March 28, 1960 in Sainte -Foy- lès- Lyon) is a Belgian novelist, playwright and film director.

Life

Schmitt is Alsatian descent. His parents were both physical education teachers. Having grown up with the atheistic basic philosophy of his parents, Mr Schmitt is known after years as an agnostic later to Christianity.

He studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris (1980-1985) and a doctorate in philosophy. His dissertation topic was Diderot and metaphysics. He taught for three years in Cherbourg and at the University of Chambéry. He first became known as a playwright. His debut, La nuit de Valognes, was played 1991/1992 on stages in France and abroad. Successfully, he was with his second play, Le Visiteur, for which he was awarded the 1993 Molière Theatre Award for Best Author and 1994 with the same award for best drama.

The following years he wrote the plays Golden Joe (1995), Variations énigmatiques (1996 ), Le Libertin (1997), Milarepa (1997), Frédérick ou le boulevard du crime (1998), Hôtel des deux mondes (1999), Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran (1999).

Add Golden Joe is about the cynical attitudes of people in the economy. In Variations énigmatiques the author leaves two very different men discuss with each other about their attitudes to life and love. Both, as it turns out, the same woman loved. Le Libertin is characteristically of Diderot and was filmed in 2000.

Schmitt received the 2001 " Grand Prix du Théâtre " of the Académie française. His works have been performed in 35 countries and translated into several languages. The pieces show the influence of Samuel Beckett, Jean Anouilh and Paul Claudel.

In addition to plays, Schmitt has written novels and short stories The School of egoists, Oscar and the Lady in Pink, The Gospel According to Pilate, the child of Noah, My life with Mozart and Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran. The latter was made ​​into a film in 2003, directed by François Dupeyron with Omar Sharif in the title role, and in 2004 awarded the German Book Prize.

An important place in Schmitt's works take on the world religions. In his four-part Cycle de l' Invisible to Schmitt strives to reconcile the religions and cultures. Milarepa is the first volume in this series and represents the Tibetan Buddhism dar. his second band, Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran, Schmitt devoted to Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, which he can take to Judaism. Oscar and the Lady in Pink Christianity has on the subject and with the child of Noah, a comparison of Judaism and Christianity, Schmitt has rounded off its range.

Appeared in 2008, seven years after the original, Schmitt's novel Adolf H. Two lives in German. This alternate world novel ( counterfactual history ) describes two different ways of life of Adolf Hitler, which run in parallel and Schmitt in a version of the real life Hitler told, this was however 1908 is not rejected but included in the other at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and therefore a completely different Journey strikes and thus in the second variant is also not a dictator.

In 2009, Schmitt in the film version of his novel Oscar and the Lady in Pink Director. The University of Koblenz -Landau drew him in January 2014 with the poetry professorship.

Eric- Emmanuel Schmitt lives in Brussels and has since 2008 alongside the French Belgian citizenship.

Works

Plays

  • La Nuit de Valognes, 1991
  • The Visitors ( Le Visiteur, 1993). Dragonfly, Lengwil 1997, ISBN 3-909081-05-3
  • Golden Joe, 1995
  • L' École du diable, 1996
  • Enigma ( Variations énigmatiques, 1996). Dragonfly, second verb. A. Lengwil 1999, ISBN 3-909081-06-1
  • The Libertine (Le Libertin, 1997). Dragonfly, Lengwil 1997, ISBN 3-909081-07- X
  • Milarepa, 1997
  • Frédérick ou le boulevard du crime, 1998 Collected pieces ( Frédérick or Boulevard of Crime / The Visitors / The Libertine / Enigma ). Dragonfly, Lengwil 1999, ISBN 3-909081-04-5
  • L' Évangile selon Pilate, 2004
  • La Nuit des oliviers, 2004

Prose works

  • Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran. Narrative ( Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran, 2001), German by Annette and Paul Baker, Ammann Verlag (meridians 55), Zurich 2003
  • Oscar and the Lady in Pink. Narrative ( Oscar et la dame rose, 2002), German by Annette and Paul Baker, Ammann Verlag (meridians 57), Zurich 2003
  • The School of egoists. Roman ( La sect of égoïstes, 1994), German by Inés Koebel, Ammann Verlag (meridians 61), Zurich 2004
  • The child of Noah. Narrative ( L' enfant de Noé, 2004), German by Inés Koebel, Ammann Verlag (meridians 76), Zurich 2004
  • The Gospel According to Pilate. Roman ( L' Évangile selon Pilate, 2000), German by Brigitte Large, Ammann Verlag (meridians 64), Zurich 2005
  • Milarepa. Narrative ( Milarepa, 1997), German by Inés Koebel, Ammann Verlag (meridians 99), Zurich 2006
  • Odette Toulemonde and Other Stories ( Odette Toulemonde et autres histoires, 2006), German by Inés Koebel, Ammann Verlag (meridians 108), Zurich 2007
  • Adolf H. Two lives. Roman ( La Part de l' autre, 2001), Germany by Klaus Laabs, Ammann Verlag (meridians 107), Zurich 2008
  • When I was a work of art. Novel, dt of Inés Koebel, Ammann Verlag, Zurich 2009
  • From Sumo, which could not be thick, German by Klaus Laabs, Ammann Verlag (meridians 137), Zurich 2010
  • The Dreamer of Ostend, stories, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt 2011
  • The woman in the mirror. Roman ( La femme au miroir, 2011), German by Marlene fruit, Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2012

Essays

  • Diderot ou la philosophie de la séduction, 1997
  • My life with Mozart, dt of Inés Koebel. With an Audio CD ( Ma vie avec Mozart, 2005). Ammann (meridians 85), Zurich 2005
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