Marguerite Duras

Autor, Regie, Darsteller

4. April 1914 — 3. März 1996 (81 Jahre)
Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu (4 April 1914 – 3 March 1996), known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

Duras was born Marguerite Donnadieu on 4 April 1914, in Gia Định, Cochinchina, French Indochina (now Vietnam). Her parents, Marie (née Legrand, 1877–1956) and Henri Donnadieu (1872–1921), were teachers from France who likely had met at Gia Định High School. They both had previous marriages. Marguerite had two brothers: Pierre, the older, and the younger Paul.

Duras' father fell ill and he returned to France, where he died in 1921, when Duras was seven years old. Between 1922 and 1924, the family lived in France while her mother was on administrative leave. They then moved back to French Indochina when she was posted to Phnom Penh followed by Vĩnh Long and Sa Đéc. The family struggled financially, and her mother made a bad investment in an isolated property and area of rice farmland in Prey Nob, a story which was fictionalized in Un barrage contre le Pacifique (The Sea Wall).

In 1931, when she was 17, Duras and her family moved to France where she successfully passed the first part of the baccalaureate with the choice of Vietnamese as a foreign language, as she spoke it fluently. Duras returned to Saigon in late 1932 where her mother found a teaching post. There, Marguerite continued her education at the Lycée Chasseloup-Laubat and completed the second part of the baccalaureate, specializing in philosophy.

In autumn 1933, Duras moved to Paris, graduating with a degree in public law in 1936. At the same time, she took classes in mathematics. She continued her education, earning a diplôme d'études supérieures (DES) in public law and, later, in political economy. After finishing her studies in 1937, she found employment with the French government at the Ministry of the Colonies. In 1939, she married the writer Robert Antelme, whom she had met during her studies.

During World War II, from 1942 to 1944, Duras worked for the Vichy government in an office that allocated paper quotas to publishers and in the process operated a de facto book-censorship system. She then became an active member of the PCF (the French Communist Party) and a member of the French Resistance as a part of a small group that also included François Mitterrand, who later became President of France and remained a lifelong friend of hers. Duras' husband, Antelme, was deported to Buchenwald in 1944 for his involvement in the Resistance, and barely survived the experience (weighing on his release, according to Duras, just 38 kg, or 84 pounds). She nursed him back to health, but they divorced once he recovered.

In 1943, when publishing her first novel, she began to use the surname Duras, after the town that her father came from, Duras, Lot-et-Garonne.

In 1950, her mother returned to France from Indochina, wealthy from property investments and from the boarding school she had run. ...

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Filme & Serien auf plex.tv

  • Der Schmerz
    Der Schmerz2017

Bekannt aus

  • Hiroshima, mon amour
    Hiroshima, mon amour1959
  • Der Liebhaber
    Der Liebhaber1992
  • India Song
    India Song1975
  • Mademoiselle
    Mademoiselle1966
  • Stunden voller Zärtlichkeit
    Stunden voller Zärtlichkeit1960
  • Baxter, Vera Baxter
    Baxter, Vera Baxter1977
  • Der Schmerz
    Der Schmerz2017
  • Noch nach Jahr und Tag
    Noch nach Jahr und Tag1961
  • Der Lastwagen
    Der Lastwagen1977
  • Le navire Night
    Le navire Night1979
  • Agatha and the Limitless Readings
    Agatha and the Limitless Readings1981
  • The Negative Hands
    The Negative Hands1978
  • Heiße Küste
    Heiße Küste2008
  • Suzanna Andler
    Suzanna Andler2021
  • Azuro
    Azuro2022
  • En rachâchant
    En rachâchant1982
  • Schornstein Nr. 4
    Schornstein Nr. 41966
  • Diese Liebe
    Diese Liebe2001
  • Nur eine Frau an Bord
    Nur eine Frau an Bord1967
  • Ganze Tage in den Bäumen
    Ganze Tage in den Bäumen1977

Filmografie

2022
1985
The Children · as Narration
1981
L'homme atlantique · as Narrator (voice)
1981
Agatha and the Limitless Readings · as Narrator (voice)
1979
Le navire Night · as (voice)
1979
Aurélia Steiner (Vancouver) · as Narrator (voice)
1977
Baxter, Vera Baxter · as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1977
The Truck · as Elle
1976
1975
India Song · as Voix Intemporelle (voice)
1974
1972
Nathalie Granger · as (voice)

2024
2023
Little Girl Blue · as Self (archive Footage)auf plex.tv
2023
Jeune cinéma · as Self
2022
2022
2021
2020
Pornotropic: Marguerite Duras et l'illusion coloniale · as Self - Writer (archive Footage)
2019
Delphine and Carole · as Self (archive Footage)
2018
Jeanne Moreau, l'affranchie · as Self - Writer (archive Footage)
2015
Les vendredis d'Apostrophes · as Self (archive Footage)
2008
2003
Marguerite as She Was · as Self (archive Footage)
1994
Marguerite Duras · as Self
1983
One Minute for One Image · as Self - Narrator
1982
Cinéma cinémas · as Self (segment 'duras Filme')
1981
Duras Shoots · as Self
1980
Every Man for Himself · as Marguerite Duras
1978
The Negative Hands · as Self - Narrator (voice)
1976
A Fondo · as Self - Interviewee
1975
Apostrophes · as Self
1965
Dim Dam Dom · as Self

2021
Suzanna Andler · as Theatre Play
2008
Half Past Ten · as Author
2001
Cet amour-là · as Character
1982
En rachâchant · as Short Story
1977
Entire Days in the Trees · as Theatre Play
1972
Nathalie Granger · as Author
1967
Days in the Trees · as Story
1964
The Wednesday Play · as Story
1963