Walter Lewino

Walter Lewino (born the January 18th 1924) is a Journaliste French, war veteran and specialist in tests and plays for newspapers.

The Second world war

Born the January 18th 1924, Walter Lewino is the grandson, by his mother, of Leonce Tobo, the creator of the working trade unions of Boulogne-sur-mer, and the son of a British painter of Jewish confession. It passes part of its childhood in a small village of the Lot before being put in pension at the higher elementary school of Cahors. After the rout of 1940, 17 years old, it decides to rejoin the De Gaulle general and joined England by Spain and Portugal. After one year of drive as navigator, it is transferred to the group Lorraine, the only unit of free bombardment French integrated into the Royal Air Force. In its center, it contributes, like Pierre Mendès France or Romain Gary, with the success of the unloading in Normandy and achieves 65 missions of war.

For that, it receives the Légion of honor, the military decoration and the Military Cross with four quotations. Demobilized in 1946 it resumes studies of letters to the Sorbonne where it militates at the same time with the Unef - as representing students in Letters - and with the PCF in the section of the street Monge directed by Annie Kriegel. But rejected by the worship of the Stalinist personality which reigns there, it leaves this party as of the end of the year. Its first track records, initially within a Parisian printing works (Néogravure) then, as painter in the building, do not reinforce with it less its feeling of solidarity with the working class and electoral sympathies in favor of the Communists whom time will not deteriorate.

France Observer

Corrector, starting from the middle of the years 1950, with the " Newspaper officiel" , in Combat then with Art-Spectacles and finally with the Team , it publishes the Hour (Denoël) in 1959 without much success. In 1961, its artistic culture enables him to write art critics for New Ingenuous the . But its papers displease with its editor association and it does not sometimes happen to make some publish more than two. After a few months he thus prefers to leave for France Observer where, arrived the luggage of Philippe Viannay, he enters as rewriter. In 1962, its second novel ( Earth of the others , Albin Michel) does not obtain either a broad echo but it succeeds Louis Guéry as sub-editor of France Observer .

Also taking in hand the technique and the model of the newspaper, it is particularly close to Jeanne Cabel, Jean-Christmas Gurgand and Lucien Rioux. He then sees himself offering by Jean-François Revel the occasion to write some articles on the photograph. After the departure of this last in 1963, it takes even the head of the literary column. Appointed writer as an chief-assistant, he makes an effort, after the departure of Hector de Galard (May 1964), to make turn the newspaper with the few freelance journalists who are still attached to him. But it is upset not to be held with the current of the contents of the negotiations in progress with Jean Daniel and Claude Perdriel. Moreover, he saw the fact badly, that before even their conclusion, Robert Namia allows himself to intervene in his field: the model.

At the same time skeptic on the viability of a new formula and eager to change team, it thus leaves the newspaper in September 1964 by empochant his allowances.

Express train at the Point

But its refusal to take part in the launching of the Nouvel Observateur is also explained by its difficulty “of subjecting the authority abroad” who do not take into account the fact why it had contributed “to support the newspaper with end of arm for several months”. Moreover, he does not recognize himself in the style of the journalists of the magazine rather Parisian, society man and filled up intellectual references. Lastly, it with “fear to become there the last moral recourse of the small team of badly or not paid freelance journalists” and without hope to preserve their headings. It thus leaves Obs to take, after a passage to Week-End , the direction of the drafting of the Almanac of Tiercé where it works with Michele Bernstein, the former woman of Guy Debord and founder of the Internationale situationnist. It drew some in 1968 a book on the situationnism: imagination with the capacity (the Waste ground). In 1972, it enters to the Express train as technical editor association. But, hardly one year later, he prefers to join the Point where one proposes to him to direct the “guide of the Point”.

As of the summer 1973, it succeeds, in spite of the reserves of Claude Imbert and Georges Suffert, to introduce “Plays of the summer” (8 pages out of 6 numbers). These plays (in particular tests of IQ) contribute in a considerable way to the maintenance of sales whose too low level in summer period could have cost the life the newspaper. While ensuring this heading, it publishes its first success, Fucking Fernand (Balland, 1976) from which Gerard Mordillat will draw a film with Jean Yanne and Thierry Lhermitte. But the business Henri Curiel (May 1978) comes to degrade his relationship with Georges Suffert. Made indignant in front of the refusal of Chevrillon to recognize the errors of appreciation of this last, it leaves a newspaper which “was nevertheless rather distant from proper sensitivity”.

In Nouvel Observateur

Indeed, politically, he, in 1974, had hesitated between Arlette Laguiller and Rene Dumont before voting without enthusiasm for François Mitterrand. He thus feels more at ease within a Nouvel Observateur which he integrates into the summer 1978 thanks to Hector de Galard.

Person in charge of the cultural guide of the newspaper, “Go of Obs”, it carries out this summer of the political tests containing Chinese portraits whose answers want to be revealing political tendencies of the subject. The next summer, it created the first tests psychanalytiquo-canularesques. Its tests “Summers you of right-hand side or left?” make even éructer Jean Daniel until itself subjects to it and as near to this “rational left tendency Michel Rocard comes out from it” which tries “the difficult marriage of humanism and the effectiveness”. The next summer, its test “Calculate your true sexuality” (August 8th, 1979) obtains also a certain success.

Within the drafting, it is particularly close to Lucien Rioux, one of the rare journalists to be remained in contact with him after its departure. Besides it shares the positions of this last in favor of the support for the Matin of Paris even if itself does not mix with the internal debates on the question. But he is also the friend of Katia D. Kaupp and it is him which, in October 1982, advises in Jean Daniel to think of Francoise Giroud to deal with the tele heading. In December 1983, it leaves its heading for an article on the municipal countryside in its village (“My village per hour of mixing”) which is worth to him to be taken with part by the local press.

Working out tests for other newspapers including one for It (“Summers you a bitch? ”) which causes a wave of protest, he collaborates in France 2 with the beginning of the year 1990. Gradually with the retirement, it ceases any collaboration with the Nouvel Observateur after the summer 1994 and conscre with the writing of scenarios for the cinema. He is in addition the creator of the Autopsy of Tiercé, a mathematical quotation of the racehorses, which since 1966 are used as a basis for many racegoers known as methodists. But its greater invention remains Shootball, a board game and of strategy which is that which since the Failures offers the most possible solutions.

Works

the Hour , Paris, Denoël (coll “the Free field”), 1959,155 p.
the Earth of the others , Paris, A. Michel, 1962,251 p.
the Glare and whiteness , Paris, A. Michel, 1967,219 p.
imagination with the capacity , Paris, the Waste ground, 1968
Fucking Fernand , Balland, 1976,199 p.
a woman per day, Albin Michel, 1978
Notre-Dame of the computers , Paris, Balland, 1979,93 p.
Say, Paris, Balland , 1984,150 p.
the insane one of Bagnolet , Paris, Astral Beaver, 1994
Longtemps I lay down of through , Paris, Maurice Nadeau 1994
Châteaunoir , Paris, Plon, 1998,374 p.
Pardon, forgiveness, my father , Paris, Grasset, 2001

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