Michel Taubmann

Michel Taubmann (born in 1956 with Paris) is a French journalist with Arte and the director of the review Brave New World .

Biography

journalist in France 3 the Limousin, it keeps a deep attachment for this area. Thereafter, it joined the team of Arte and it directs the tv news Arte-Information to Paris.

Also historian, Michel Taubmann is particularly interested in the Communism and, more particularly, the case of the resistant Limousin Georges Guingouin. After a long investigation, it publishes, in 1994, a key work which shows at which point “the first man of the maquis of France” went to wrong way of the French Communist party which on several occasions tried to eliminate it. Very touched by this history of the Second world war, it will found the “Days of history of Eymoutiers”, an appointment which, in the middle of this historical bastion of PCF, did not fail to cause debates between historians and witness-actors of this history.

Foundation of the Circle of the Oratory

Very touched by the attacks of September 11th, 2001, Michel Taubmann will bring together the French intellectuals favorable to an intervention in Afghanistan then, in March 2003, in Iraq. A few months later, the circle projects to found a review, which will be concretized by the creation of a body entitled Brave New World whose Michel Taubmann is editor association. After difficult beginnings, the review ends up being born in 2006 after an agreement with the director of the Editions Denoël, Olivier Rubinstein. To the founder team new collaborators such Pascal Bruckner or of the writer Olivier Rolin is added. The circle also creates the association of the Friends of Best of the Worlds whose presidency is taken by the philosopher André Glucksmann.

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