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Biography of Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Name: Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Birth Date: 1946
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: France
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, protestor, insurrectionist
Daniel Cohn-Bendit
Daniel Cohn-Bendit (born 1946) only occupied center stage in French politics for a few weeks in 1968. Still, more than anyone else, Cohn-Bendit came to personify the new left that swept Western Europe and North America in the late 1960s and early 1970s.In early 1968, Daniel Cohn-Bendit was a little known leader of a tiny student movement at the brand new Nanterre campus of the University of Paris. He was only 22, having been born in France of German Jewish parents in 1946. Because he held dual citizenship he had chosen to pursue his studies in sociology at the newly opened campus in one of the grimier industrial suburbs of Paris.That campus represented everything that was troubling the overcrowded French university system. It had been built without planning for the social lives of the students. The educational system suffered from the same problems as the rest of the huge university centered at the …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…his role in the 1968 events, and concentrated more on his current activities in the European Parliament. Summing up his interests, he said, "In any event I remain: a wanderer through the worlds, cultures, languages, occupations, generations, and classes, and last but not least: still an active soccer-nut, as player and fan." Associated Organizations Further Reading On Daniel Cohn-Bendit and the "events of May," see his Obsolete Communism: The Left Wing Alternative (1968) or Patrick Seale and Maureen McConville, Red Flag/Black Flag (1968). Other books with which Cohn-Bendit has been involved, either as writer, cowriter, or contributor, include The Grand Bazaar (1976), We Loved Her So Much, the Revolution (1987), 1968: The Last Revolution That Was Unaware of the Hole in the Ozone Layer (with Reinhard Mohr, 1988), and At Home In Babylon: The Risk of a Multicultural Democracy (1992, with Thomas Schmid.) His English-language Web site is at http://www.oeko- net.de/eurospeed/dcbeng.htm.
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