Zone libre
Before becoming a playwright, Jean-Claude Grumberg held several jobs including working as a tailor, he takes to the middle part of his play "L'Atelier". He discovered drama being an actor in the company. He became a writer in 1968 with "Demain, une fenêtre sur rue", and short texts like "Rixe" which played at the Comédie-Française. He writes about what haunts him since childhood: the death of his father in the Nazi death camps: "Maman revient pauvre orphelin", "Dreyfus" (1974), "L'Atelier" (1979) and "Zone libre" (1990).