Pascale Hugues

Pascale Hugues
Pascale Hugues
Born	1959 (age 64–65); Strasbourg, France
Occupation	Journalist, writer
Language	French
Genre	Journalism

Pascale Hugues (born 1959) is a French journalist and writer based in Berlin, Germany.

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.

Works

Le bonheur allemand (1999)
Marthe et Mathilde : L’Histoire vraie d'une incroyable amitié, 1902-2001. Les Arènes, Paris 2008
Rue 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 Delogu
Deutschland à la française. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017.
Mädchenschule, Rowohlt, 2021

Filmography

Bleiben oder gehen? (Staying or leaving). Arte, 2001 - documentary about the youth in East Germany after the reunification
Alte Liebe rostet nicht (Old Love doesn't rust). Arte, 2003 - documentary about the Franco-German Friendship