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Death of French director and author Claude Lanzmann, who died at the age of 92 in Paris. That confirmed his wife on Thursday. His film "Shoah" on the genocide of European Jews made Lanzmann famous.
The son of a decorator and an antiquarian experienced in his youth growing anti-Semitism in his own body – his grandparents immigrated to France as Jewish immigrants from Europe to l & # 39; Is. Lanzmann, 18, joined the Resistance in 1943 and took part in several partisan battles.
After the war, Lanzmann went to Germany, studied philosophy in Tübingen and taught at the Free University of Berlin. Back in France, he writes a series of articles on divided Germany for the daily Le Monde
The Fundamental Exploration of the Holocaust
The existentialist philosopher Jean- Paul Sartre invites him to collaborate. Soon, Lanzmann was part of the closed circle of friends of Sartre and his companion Simone de Beauvoir and belonged to the editorial collective of their magazine "Les Temps Modernes".
Lanzmann has always taken a stand: He was organizing demonstrations against the repression of the French occupation forces during the war in Algeria. after the occupation of the Palestinian territories after the Six Day War on the side of Israeli Jews.
In the late sixties, Lanzmann began to study intensively the Holocaust. The episode was a film trilogy, the second part of which made him famous all over the world: "Shoah". The nine-hour film is considered still valid, fundamental cinematographic examination of the Holocaust
Witnesses speak
The film also made the Hebrew word for "catastrophe, annihilation" synonymous with the genocide of the National Socialists in of other languages the European Jews. For twelve years, Lanzmann did research for the Mammutwerk, 350 hours of interviews with victims, writers and observers. Lanzmann completely renounced the archival documents, he allowed only contemporary witnesses to speak.
Later, Claude Lanzmann reproduced other films about the Holocaust, including "Sobibor, October 14, 1943, 4 pm" in 2001 about an uprising at Sobibor Concentration Camp . 2013 followed "The Last of the Unjust" about Austrian Rabbi Benjamin Murmelstein and finally "Four Sisters" (2017) with material that Lanzmann had not used for "Shoah".
"My film is supposed to be a grave for the murderer, which they never had in reality," said Lanzmann in a conversation with Der Spiegel on "Shoah". And: "I constantly think of death, including mine, but at the same time it is completely unreal. (…) Only life matters."
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