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Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August 1850 – 6 July 1893) was a popular 19th-century French writer, considered one of the fathers of the modern short story and one of the form's finest exponents.
A protégé of Flaubert, Maupassant's stories are characterized by their economy of style and efficient, effortless dénouement. Many of the stories are set during the Franco-Prussian War of the 1870s and several describe the futility of war and the innocent civilians who, caught in the conflict, emerge changed. He authored some 300 short stories, six novels, three travel books, and one volume of verse. The story "Boule de Suif" ("Ball of Fat", 1880) is often accounted his masterpiece. His most unsettling horror story, "Le Horla" (1887), was about madness and suicide.
Henri-René-Albert-Guy de Maupassant was born on August 5, 1850 at the château de Miromesnil, near Dieppe in the Seine-Inférieure (now Seine-Maritime) department in France. He was the first son of Laure Le Poittevin and Gustave de Maupassant, both from prosperous bourgeois families. When Maupassant was eleven and his brother Hervé was five, his mother, an independent-minded woman, risked social disgrace to obtain a legal separation from her husband.
Actors: Ewald Wenck (actor), Aribert Wäscher (actor), Hanns Waschatko (actor), Hans Stiebner (actor), Willi Forst (actor), Hubert von Meyerinck (actor), Will Dohm (actor), Walter Gross (actor), Walter Lieck (actor), Erich Dunskus (actor), Hadrian Maria Netto (actor), Johannes Riemann (actor), Willi Forst (actor), Egon Brosig (actor), Bruno Ziener (actor),
Plot: Shortly after being demobilized, Georges Duroy becomes aware of his power over women in the arms of Rachel, a young singer. Thanks to his good looks and his charming manners and his unabashed cynicism he will rapidly rise to the top by courtesy of women women (Mme Walter, Clotilde, Madeleine), from journalist to member of Parliament to cabinet minister. But it is also the fair sex that will cause his fall in the end.
Keywords: based-on-novel, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptationEin kleines Liedchen geht von Mund zu Mund
es ist beliebt
und das hat seinen Grund
denn es besingt den Liebling vieler Damen
die ihm zuliebe fielen aus dem Rahmen.
Gott Amor selber hat es komponiert
hat er den schönen Frauen dediziert
und weil's bezaubernd klingt und süß
singt man in ganz Paris:
Du hast Glück bei den Frau'n
Bel ami
so viel Glück bei den Frau'n
Bel ami.
Bist nicht schön
doch charmant
bist nicht klug
doch sehr galant
bist kein Held
nur ein Mann
der gefällt.
Du verliebst jeden Tag dich auf's neu
alle küßt du und bleibst keiner treu.
Doch die Frau
die dich liebt
machst du glücklich wie noch nie -
Bel ami! Bel ami! Bel ami!
Ich kenne einen netten jungen Mann
der gar nichts ist
und nichts Besond'res kann
und den die Damen dennoch heiß verehren - wie sie ihn begehren!
Er macht die andern männer ganz nervös
mit seiner tollen chronique scandaleuse
er nimmt die Frauen wie er will
bei ihm hält jede still.
Du hast Glück bei den Frau'n
Bel ami