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Gabrielle Wittkop (Gabrielle Ménardeau) was born on 27 May, 1920 in Nantes, France, is a Gabrielle Wittkop was French writer and translator French writer and translator. Discover Gabrielle Wittkop's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 82 years old?

Popular As Gabrielle Ménardeau
Occupation Writer · translator
Age 82 years old
Zodiac Sign Gemini
Born 27 May 1920
Birthday 27 May
Birthplace Nantes, France
Date of death 22 December, 2002
Died Place Frankfurt, Germany
Nationality France

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Her husband is Justus Franz Wittkop

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1920

Gabrielle Wittkop (née Ménardeau; 27 May 1920 – 22 December 2002) was a French writer and translator.

Gabrielle Wittkop was born on 27 May 1920 in Nantes.

During the Nazi occupation of Paris, she met a German deserter, Justus Wittkop, whom she hid from the Nazis.

1946

He was homosexual and twenty years older than her, but they married in a union she called an “intellectual alliance.” In 1946, after the end of the Second World War she moved with him to Frankfurt where she would stay for the rest of her life.

1966

Her first book on the German writer E.T.A. Hoffmann was published in German in 1966.

1972

Her first novel, a transgressive erotic drama about a necrophiliac antique dealer, Le Nécrophile (The Necrophiliac, 1972), was published in 1972 by Régine Desforges when she was 52.

She wrote several highly regarded novels and travelogues, as well as translating works by Theodor Adorno, Uwe Johnson, Wolfgang Hildesheimer and Peter Handke into French.

She also contributed to the art pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

1986

Her husband committed suicide in 1986 after he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and she wrote an account of it in Hemlock (1988).

1995

English translations of Les Départs exemplaires (Exemplary Departures, 1995) and Sérénissime Assassinat (Murder Most Serene, 2001) were published by Wakefield Press in 2015.

2002

In 2002, she herself committed suicide in Frankfurt at the age of 82, after she was diagnosed with lung cancer.

Although popular in France and Germany, Wittkop's works were not widely available in English until recent years.

2011

The Necrophiliac was translated in a Canadian edition by Don Bapst in 2011, and in a Danish edition by Christina Ytzen in 2018.