Jean-Jacques Goldman: his rare secrets about his mother’s tragic story

During their first confinement in 2020, Montpellier high school students interviewed 8 celebrities about their feelings about the health crisis. An initiative that gave birth to a 126-page book, Stars and high school students, of which the sale of 1,000 copies raised almost 9,000 euros in profits for the Hérault Red Cross. The book, currently out of print, therefore hosts exclusive interviews with Julien Clerc, Francis Cabrel, Patrick Bruel, Jane Fonda, Mark Harmon (NCIS), Sophie Marceau, Pierre Richard and Jean-Jacques Goldman. The presence of the author-composer in the work is also a great undertaking, as the latter has completely disappeared from the media sphere for several years. When asked by high school students about imprisonment, Jean-Jacques Goldman then revealed some secrets about his mother, Ruth, who died in 2008.I thought a lot about my mother who had to flee her native country of Germany in 1933 at the age of 12. She had learned French in school, which she loved, and then came the war. He had to ‘confine himself’ to a small village with his parents, it lasted four years … Four years without school, without friends, without Internet, little news, with the daily fear of being reported and arrested “remember the artist before adding: “But liberation arrived, he was finally able to go out, work, fall in love, raise three children, live a good life, and even graduated from high school … at 70!

Jean-Jacques Goldman: “We thought life was simple”

Regarding today’s youth, Jean-Jacques Goldman explains: “My generation was much spared from existence, but yours is facing a real test, this virus. We thought that life was simple and that Rwanda, Bosnia, Lebanon, Syria, Afghanistan were on another planet … But we were wrong; Human life has always been complicated and dangerous … “