Fred Vargas

Fred Vargas [ fʀɛd vaʀ'ɡaz ] is the stage name of the French writer, historian, and Mittelalterarchäologin Archäozoologin Frédérique Audoin - Rouzeau ( born June 7, 1957 in Paris).

The nickname originated from the abbreviation of her first name and the last name of the film character " Maria Vargas " ( Ava Gardner in the film " The Barefoot Contessa ").

  • 4.1 Adam Berg
  • 4.2 The Three Evangelists
  • 4.3 Other

Life

Fred Vargas is the daughter of Philippe Audoin culture journalist, a member of the Surrealists, and a sister of the historian Stéphane Audoin - Rouzeau. Her twin sister, the painter Joëlle Audoin - Rouzeau, used under the pseudonym Jo Vargas the fictitious surname before her.

Fred Vargas lives with her son in the Montparnasse district of Paris and works as an archaeologist ( specialty archaeozoology with a focus on the Middle Ages) the CNRS. Since 1986, she writes in her holiday season crime novels, distanced himself while later from their first work Les Jeux de l' amour et de la mort, after she had with her ​​second novel, L' homme aux cercles bleus, 1991 found her own style.

In 2004, she turned to her advocacy of former terrorists and today's writer Cesare Battisti a ( cultural) political topic. The background is the threat of extradition of numerous ex- political offenders and today's creative artists to Italy after they were many years tolerated in France, following a Decree of François Mitterrand.

Main characters of her novels

Typical of her characters are bizarreness and kindness. Two series of novels by one group of investigators can be distinguished - but these are known to each other. The plot of the novels has something grotesque, with references to surrealism ( a part of the family background of the author ) are obvious, but always remains logical.

Adam Berg, Danglard and Camille

  • Jean -Baptiste Adam Berg: Commissioner in the 13th arrondissement in Paris, which solves his cases, of obvious external slowness by intuition, on the other hand does not understand how others can come to a conclusion by reasoning
  • Adrien Danglard: the inspector, the systematic and intellectual counterpoint to Adam Berg, the single mother of five children malnourished, is inclined toward the white wine and often do not follow the thoughts of his superiors may
  • Camille Forestier: Adam Berg's former lover, and recurring working alternately as a musician and a plumber and prefer tool catalogs reads as Markaris Commissioner Charitos Dictionaries
  • With Camille Adam Berg has a young son, Tom, to whom he cares sporadically

Kehl hamlet and the Evangelists

  • Ludwig ( Louis) Kehl Hamlet: son of a French mother and a German Wehrmacht officer, former employee of the Interior Ministry, which has an extensive network of informants and a comprehensive criminological archive, and constantly the toad Bufo carries with it; his assistant are:
  • Mathias Delamarre called Saint Matthew: prehistorians, lives on the first floor
  • Marc Vandoosler called Holy Markus: leads the day the budget, works at night as a medievalist, lives on the second floor
  • Lucien Devernois called, Saint Luke: historian specializing in World War I ( as the brother of the author ), lives on the third floor These three individuals, the evangelists, inhabit the barracks, a four-story house, along with

(see Fred Vargas " The beautiful diva of Saint -Jacques " )

Awards

Works, sorted by main characters

Adam Berg

  • L' homme aux cercles bleus, 1991 German: You take another train from the Gare du Nord. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3- 7466-1516 -X
  • L' homme à l' envers, 1999 German: By nightfall. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-7466-2158-5
  • Pars vite et reviens tard, 2001 German: Flee far and fast. Novel. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-2115-1
  • Coule la Seine. Nouvelles policières: Salut et liberté. La nuit des brutes. Cinq pièces francs. 2002, ISBN 2-87858-166-0 ( in Reclam foreign language texts, ISBN 3-15-009136-5 ), German: The black waters of the Seine, crime stories: Salut et liberte ', The Night of the barbarians, five francs the piece, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-7466-2350-4
  • Sous les vents de Neptune, 2004 German: The fourteenth stone. Novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-351-03030-4
  • Dans les bois éternels, 2006, ISBN 2-87858-233-0, German: The third virgin, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-351-03205-0
  • Un Lieu Incertain, 2008 German: The Forbidden City, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-351-03256-2
  • L' armée furieuse. 2011 German: The night of anger. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3351033804.

The three evangelists

  • Debout les morts, 1995, German: The beautiful diva of Saint -Jacques. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-7466-1519-4
  • Un peu plus loin sur la droite, 1996, German: The Oracle of Port Nicolas. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1514-3
  • Sans feu ni lieu, 1997, German: inconsolable widower of Montparnasse. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2004, ISBN 3-7466-1511-9 ( If the book erroneously referred to as the second crime of the three young graduates, probably because before translated "oracle": the German Copyright dated 1999, which is the " oracle "in 2001. )

Other

  • Les jeux de l' amour et de la mort, 1986, ISBN 2-7024-7856-5.
  • Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent, 1994, German: In the shadow of the Palazzo Farnese. Detective novel, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-1515-1.
  • Les quatre fleuves, with illustrations by Edmond Baudoin, 2000, Roman comic, ISBN 2-87858-134-2. German: The sign of Aries, Aufbau-Verlag 2008, ISBN 9783351032500
  • Petit traité de toutes vérités sur l' existence, in 2001, German: from the meaning of life, love and the clean up of cabinets, Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-351-02602-1.
  • Critique de l' anxiété pure, 2003
  • La vérité sur Cesare Battisti. Viviane Harny, Paris 2004, ISBN 2-87858-195-4.

Films

  • Pars vite et reviens tard ( " Flee far and fast " ) was filmed in 2007, directed by Regis Wargnier and published under the title Seeds of Death on DVD in Germany. The English title is Seeds of Death.
  • 2008 and 2009, directed by Josée Dayan resulted in several crime films for television ( Sous les vents de Neptune, L' homme à l' envers and L' homme aux cercles bleus ), in each of which Jean -Hugues Anglade in the role of Fred Vargas ' series hero Jean -Baptiste Adam Berg slipped.

Audiobooks (excerpt)

  • 2006: From the meaning of life, love and the clean up of cabinets, Technisat Radioropa, read by Sabine Swoboda, 3 CDs 225 min, ISBN 978-3866674486
  • 2007: Flee far and fast, The Audio Publishers (DAV) Berlin, read by Suzanne of Borsody, 6 CDs 432 min, ISBN 978-3898136754
  • 2009: At nightfall, the Audio Publishers (DAV) Berlin, read by Suzsanne of Borsody, 4 CDs 339 min, ISBN 978-3898138512
  • 2009: The Forbidden City, The Audio Publishers (DAV) Berlin, read by Barbara nuts, 6 CDs 512 min, ISBN 978-3898138543
  • 2012: The Night of the Fury, Lubbe Audio, read by Volker Lechtenbrink, cut 6 CDs 439 min, ISBN 978-3785747001
  • 2012: The Night of the Fury, read by Helmut Krauss, unabridged audiobook download 900 minutes, ASIN: B0083JE146
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