Jean-Claude Grumberg (born 26 July 1939) is a French writer of
children's books and a playwright.Before becoming a playwright,
Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor,
he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama
being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with Demain,
une fenêtre sur rue, and short texts like Rixe which played at the
Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood:
the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: Maman revient pauvre
orphelin, Dreyfus (1974), L'Atelier (1979) and Zone libre (1990).In
1998, L'Atelier returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, won great
success and won the 1999 Molière for best play directory.In film, he
is writer: Les Années Sandwiches, co-writer with François Truffaut
for The Last Metro, La Petite Apocalypse of Costa-Gavras, Le Plus Beau
Pays du monde by Marcel Bluwal (1999), Fait d'hiver Robert Enrico
(1999). For television, he wrote scenarios Thérèse Humbert, Music
Hall, by Marcel Bluwal, Les Lendemains qui chantent, by Jacques
Fansten et Julien l'apprenti, by Jacques Otmezguine.
children's books and a playwright.Before becoming a playwright,
Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor,
he takes to the middle part of his play L'Atelier. He discovered drama
being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with Demain,
une fenêtre sur rue, and short texts like Rixe which played at the
Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood:
the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: Maman revient pauvre
orphelin, Dreyfus (1974), L'Atelier (1979) and Zone libre (1990).In
1998, L'Atelier returned to Théâtre Hébertot in Paris, won great
success and won the 1999 Molière for best play directory.In film, he
is writer: Les Années Sandwiches, co-writer with François Truffaut
for The Last Metro, La Petite Apocalypse of Costa-Gavras, Le Plus Beau
Pays du monde by Marcel Bluwal (1999), Fait d'hiver Robert Enrico
(1999). For television, he wrote scenarios Thérèse Humbert, Music
Hall, by Marcel Bluwal, Les Lendemains qui chantent, by Jacques
Fansten et Julien l'apprenti, by Jacques Otmezguine.
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