Pascale Hugues
{{Short description|French journalist and writer (born 1959)}}
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Pascale Hugues (born 1959) is a French journalist and writer based in Berlin, Germany.
Life
Hugues was born in Strasbourg into family with French and German ancestry. From 1984 to 1988 she worked as radio moderator and as journalist for BBC World Service in the United Kingdom and from 1986 to 1989 as foreign correspondent for the French newspaper Libération. From 1989 to 1995 she worked as foreign correspondent in Bonn and Berlin. After that she settled in Berlin, where she continued to work as a journalist for various French and German newspapers. She also published a number of nonfiction books and was the author of documentaries for the TV network Arte.
Hugues resides in Berlin and is married with two children.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x59bz9YsbLY Buchlesung "Marthe und Mathilde" von Pascale Hugues]. Landeszentrale für politische Bildung Sachsen-Anhalt, 13 August 2020 (video, time stamp 41:02 min)
Works
- Le bonheur allemand (1999)
- Marthe et Mathilde : L’Histoire vraie d'une incroyable amitié, 1902-2001. Les Arènes, Paris 2008
- Rue tranquille dans beau quartier
- La Robe de Hannah : Berlin 1904-2014, Les Arènes, Paris 2014
- : English edition: Hannah’s Dress. Berlin 1904-2014. Polity Press, Cambridge 2017, translated by C. Jon Delogu
- Was ist das? Chroniques d'une Française à Berlin, Les Arènes, Paris 2017
- L’école des filles, Les Arènes, Paris 2021
Filmography
- Bleiben oder gehen? (Staying or leaving). Arte, 2001 - documentary about the youth in East Germany after the reunification
- Alte Liebe rostet nicht (Old Love doesn't rust). Arte, 2003 - documentary about the Franco-German Friendship
Awards
- 2006: Chevalier de l’ordre national de Mérite for her contribution to the Franco-German Friendship[http://www.botschaft-frankreich.de/article.php3?id_article=1402 Französische Botschaft in Deutschland: Botschafter Claude Martin verleiht nationalen Verdienstorden an Journalistin Pascale Hugues, 22. Februar 2006] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061010013820/http://www.botschaft-frankreich.de/article.php3?id_article=1402 |date=2006-10-10 }}
- 2014: European Book Prize for La robe de Hannah. Berlin 1904–2014
References
External links
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPnB9BPFzuQ Talk with the French Journalist Pascal Hugues | Insight Germany]. Deutsche Welle, 2014 - interview (video, 42:30 mins)
- [http://www.bpb.de/internationales/europa/frankreich/199147/im-interview-mit-pascale-hugues Interview including a biographical note]. Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), 2015-04-13
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Category:Writers from Strasbourg
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