Pierre Fritsch
Pierre Fritsch is a French writer, born the August 19th 1930 with Jœuf in Meurthe-et-Moselle, and deceased the August 30th 2005 with the Touquet-Paris-Beach (Pas-de-Calais).
He lived all his life with Joeuf in Lorraine.
After a beginning of career in industry, it resumes studies to obtain from a license of philosophy and a certificate of modern letters.
He was professor until 1993, literary chronicler for the regional newspaper, the Lorraine Republican , between 1970 and 1978; like writer.
These three novels, written between 1966 and 1970, take for framework the town of Rupt which takes as a starting point Joeuf with 19th and with the 20th century: a Lorraine childhood (1966), the Kingdom of the Coast (1968), Our cousins of Germany (1970). These three works were published by the editions Grasset.
It is described there an industrial town (Joeuf is located in the iron and steel valleys of Lorraine) with the daily life of the workmen, the paternalist owner family of the factories (Stirling, inspired of the Wendel), the relations between French and immigrant Italian or Polish, ambiguity and the problems which an area has where many families had a foot in France and another in Germany, while at the same time these countries were in war.
the Kingdom of the Coast is held during the annexation of Alsace the Moselle by Germany at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of 20th, period when Joeuf was frontier town (French side).
The action of a Lorraine childhood takes seat during the Second world war and that of Our cousins of Germany after this one.
Local warm welcome and national make with these three novels, the universal carractère of the situations and of the depicted characters makes it possible the Royaume of the Coast to obtain the Prix of the populist novel in 1968.
In 1976, Pierre Fritsch writes a biography of the Wendel family to the editions Robert Laffont: Wendel, kings of French steel .
From end of the year 70 and beginning of the year 80, multiple troubles of health will definitively move away it from the literary career.
Pierre Fritsch was knight in the order of the academic palms and member of the association of the writers of Alsace Lorraine and the Territory of Belfort.
External bond
- Official site of Pierre Fritsch
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