Christophe Bourseiller (; born Christophe Gintzburger; born 27 September 1957 in
Paris
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) is a French actor, writer,
freemason and journalist. He began as a child actor and starred in
Yves Robert
Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Life and career
Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with ...
's ''
War of the Buttons'' (''La Guerre des boutons'') in 1962 on his debut.
He made several appearances on stage in the late 1970s and early 1980s and again in 2005 and 2006.
Biography
He was born as Christophe Gintzburger. His father, André Gintzburger called Kinsbourg (1923-2013), was a playwright and theater producer. His mother, Chantal Darget (née Marie Chantal Chauvet; 1934-1988), was an actress and the daughter of journalist Claude Darget. His mother subsequently married the director
Antoine Bourseiller (of which Christophe adopts the surname as a stage name) and they had a daughter, the rejoneadora
Marie Sara
Marie Sara (born Marie Bourseiller; June 27, 1964) is a French bullfighter. In 1991 she was Europe's only female rejoneador (rejoneadora). Jean-Luc Godard was her godfather.
She was born to director Antoine Bourseiller and actress Chantal Darge ...
.
From the age of four, he appears in cinemas in ''War of the Buttons'', the film by
Yves Robert
Yves Robert (19 June 1920 – 10 May 2002) was a French actor, screenwriter, director, and producer.
Life and career
Robert was born in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France. In his teens, he went to Paris to pursue a career in acting, starting with ...
. He then played under the direction of
Jean-Luc Godard
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,
Claude Lelouch
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,
Jacques Demy
Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebra ...
and
Pierre Jolivet
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. It is found in the credits of about thirty films, about twenty telefilms and on the poster of several plays.
At the same time, he pursues a career as a writer, journalist, radio and television man. He has published thirty books on topics as diverse as: minority movements, political extremism, the against-culture, the industrial music and the new wave of the 1980s.
Nearly a time of milieux of extreme left, it dedicates, in 1996, a work to the French Maoists entitled ''The Maoists: The Folle History of the French Red Guards''.
On the radio, he began by creating in 1981 the free radio Frequency arts and shows. On France Musique, he co-produced a weekly program, launched in 2005 and dedicated to avant-garde music: Electromania and animated the morning for two seasons from 2011 to 2013. On television, after having presented several programs since 1984, he becomes editorial advisor of the program Ce soir (ou jamais!) until July 2011. He also participates in a historic program L'Ombre d'un Doubt on FR3 on Wednesdays on two, hosted by the presenter
Franck Ferrand.
In 2001, he published a review of studies on the Situationist International, Éditions Denoël, Archives and Situationist Documents, five issues of which will appear until 2005. In 2009, he was behind the "Who Are You? " by Bourin Éditeur.
Since 2003, he has taught at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at Sciences Po Lille. He is also preparing a PhD thesis at the Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University on Les Mouvements collaborationnistes français from June 1944 to December 1950 under the direction of
Pascal Ory.
Since childhood, Christophe Bourseiller has been collecting leaflets and propaganda documents. He entrusted thousands to the Institute of Social History in Amsterdam. He also collects, among others, rare and newspapers
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In 2014, he participated in the second season of the program Les Pieds dans le plat on Europe 1 as a columnist. Since September 7, 2014, he also produces on Musique Musique the program Musicus Politicus, which deals with the links between music and politics. He is finally chronicler in La Bande originale, on France Inter.
Bibliography
* 1984 : ''Une scène jeunesse'',
Éditions Autrement
* 1989 : ''Les Ennemis du système'', Éditions Robert Laffont
* 1991 : ''Extrême Droite, l'enquête'', Éditions François Bourin (Éditions du Rocher, 2002, La Nouvelle Extrême Droite)
* 1993 : ''Les Faux Messies'',
Éditions Fayard
* 1995 : ''Message Reçu'',
Éditions Spengler
* 1995 : ''Mauvais Garçons (en collaboration)'', Éditions Spengler
* 1996 : ''Les Maoïstes, la folle histoire des gardes rouges français'',
Éditions Plon
* 1997 : ''Cet Étrange Monsieur
Blondel'', Éditions Bartillat
* 1998 : ''Les Écrivains et l'engagement (en collaboration)'', Bibliothèque publique d'information
* 1999 : ''Le Guide de l'Autre Paris'', Éditions Bartillat
* 1999 : ''Vie et Mort de
Guy Debord'', Éditions Plon (Pocket, 2002)
* 2000 : ''Le Miracle inutile'',
Éditions Flammarion
* 2000 : ''Dictionnaire du rock (en collaboration), ''
Éditions Robert Laffont
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It is considered one of the most ...
* 2000 : ''Les Forcenés du désir'',
Éditions Denoël
Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwa ...
* 2001 : ''Le Guide de l'Autre Londres'', Éditions Bartillat
* 2002 : ' (en collaboration), Böhlau Verlag
* 2003 : ''La Véritable Histoire de
Lutte ouvrière
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'' (entretiens avec
Robert Barcia
Robert Barcia, also known as Hardy and Roger Girardot (22 July 1928 in Paris – 12 July 2009 in Créteil), was a French politician who was leader of the Internationalist Communist Union (UCI), a Trotskyist organisation better known by the name o ...
),
Éditions Denoël
Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwa ...
* 2003 : ''Jacqueline de Jong'', Undercover in de Kunst/in art (en collaboration), Ludion
* 2003 : ''Fous littéraires, nouveaux chantiers''(en collaboration), Du Lérot
* 2003 : ''Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche'',
Éditions Denoël
Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwa ...
* 2004 : ''Bibliothèque secrète'', Éditions Bartillat
* 2004 : ''Les Têtes de Turc (en collaboration)'', Du Lérot
* 2005 : ''
Carlos Castaneda
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, la vérité du mensonge'', Éditions du Rocher
* 2006 : ''L'Aventure moderne'',
Flammarion
* 2006 : ''Extrêmes gauches, la tentation de la réforme'',
Éditions Textuel
* 2008 : ''Génération Chaos - Punk, New Wave 1975 - 1981'',
Éditions Denoël
Éditions Denoël is a French publishing house founded in 1930. Acquired by Éditions Gallimard in 1951, it publishes collections spanning fiction, non-fiction and comic books. It published some of the most important French authors of the interwa ...
* 2009 : ''À gauche, toute !'', CNRS Éditions
* 2009 : ''Lutte armée'', Éditions du toucan
* 2009 : ''Qui etes vous ? Antoinette Fouque'' (en collaboration avec Antoinette Fouque), Bourin Editeur
* 2010 : ''Qui etes vous ? Michel Maffesoli'' (en collaboration avec Michel Maffesoli), Bourin Editeur
* 2010 : ''Un Maçon franc'', Éditions Alphée
Filmography
* 1976: ''
Pardon Mon Affaire''
* 1979: ''
Courage - Let's Run
''Courage fuyons'' is a French romantic comedy film directed by Yves Robert.
Plot
Martin Belhomme is a coward since his birth, also home cowardice is passed from generation to generation. After a childhood spent in the tumult of the Occupation, ...
''
* 1981: ''
Clara et les Chics Types''
* 1991: ''
A Mere Mortal (Simple mortel)''
* 2015: ''
The Art Dealer''
References
External links
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French journalists
French male film actors
French male stage actors
French male child actors
1957 births
Living people
French male non-fiction writers
French Freemasons
Radio France people