Pascale Hugues


Pascale Hugues is a French journalist and writer based in Berlin, Germany.

Life

Hugues was born in Strasbourg into family with French and German ancestry. From 1984 to 1988 she worked as radio moderator and as journalist for BBC World Service in the United Kingdom and from 1986 to 1989 as foreign correspondent for the French newspaper Libération. From 1989 to 1995 she worked as foreign correspondent in Bonn and Berlin. After that she settled in Berlin, where she continued to work as a journalist for various French and German newspapers. She also published a number of nonfiction books and was the author of documentaries for the TV network Arte.
Hugues resides in Berlin and is married with two children.

Works

Le bonheur allemand Marthe et Mathilde : L’Histoire vraie d'une incroyable amitié, 1902-2001. Les Arènes, Paris 2008Rue tranquille dans beau quartier
  • La Robe de Hannah : Berlin 1904-2014, Les Arènes, Paris 2014
  • : English edition: Hannah’s Dress. Berlin 1904-2014. Polity Press, Cambridge 2017, translated by C. Jon DeloguWas ist das? Chroniques d'une Française à Berlin, Les Arènes, Paris 2017L’école des filles, Les Arènes, Paris 2021

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