Marie Frering (1960-2020)
Birthplace:
Alsace, France
Born:
May 8, 1960
Died:
January 13, 2020
Born in 1960 in Alsace, Marie Frering is a writer, director and producer. In 1983, she made her theatrical debut, first as an actress (at the Théâtre du Marché aux grains and with Pascal Varley), then as director with La Montagne brûle (Paysage sans titre after Gertrude Stein, Gespräch im Gebirg by Paul Celan, Les sept premiers chants de l'Enfer by Dante). She also worked as a broadcaster for Radio France and produced radio documentaries for Radio Suisse Romande. From 1994 to 1997, in Sarajevo, she coordinated a European aid program for the population, run by the Mission Locale de Strasbourg, under the EU's ECHO program, with a humanitarian objective during the war, followed by economic reconstruction. This experience is reflected in the radio documentary Mémoires en charpie and the book L'Ombre des montagnes. Assistant director for documentary films, mainly with Damien Fritsch, she directed Premonition, her first feature film, completed in 2012. The film was shot in Georgia, a world found in the radio documentary Montagnes et titans, prêtres païens et saints chrétiens, in short stories and in Le Livre d'Amba Besarion. In 2010, the Franche-Comté region awarded her a grant for a writing residency in the Belfort region, then in 2011, thanks to a CNL grant, she spent three months at La Verdine, an artists' residency in the Loire department. For several years, she has been running writing workshops, mainly for disadvantaged audiences. She has worked mainly on novels, short stories and adaptations for theater and film. Publication in 2013 of Lumière Noire, Kyklos éditeur. CNL literary creation grant in 2014. Publication in 2017 of Les souliers rouges and L'heure du poltron, Editions Lunatique. She was a member of the Maison des écrivains et de la littérature.