Žarko Petan

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Žarko Petan (2007)

Žarko Petan (born March 27, 1929 in Ljubljana , Yugoslavia , today Slovenia ; † May 2, 2014 ) was a Yugoslav or Slovenian writer .

Life

The author, director and journalist wrote a number of radio plays , novels and numerous aphorisms that made him known far beyond Slovenia; his works have been translated into several languages. During the communist era he was imprisoned in Belgrade - depicted satirically in the life story Over the Edge of the World . In 1987 he published the novel The Birth of Forgetting , in which a court interpreter for South Slavic languages living in Germany enters into correspondence with his brother who was left behind in Laibach and reflects on the past. In doing so, he creates the panorama of a time when man was worth as much as he subordinated himself to the collective. With sarcasm , self-irony and fine melancholy , he depicts the course of history, which is marked by coincidences, involuntary comedy and tragedy .

In 1989, after the fall of communism , he became general director of Slovenian television and radio. In addition to his satirical Tito biography The glorious life of Jozip B. Tito - which sees itself as a corrective to the communist jubilation biographies - especially his aphorisms, which have appeared in several volumes, found it easier to nod with an empty head and the world in a big sentence Appeal. In 2003 the band Laugh You Cautiously! .

Works

in German translation (selection):

  • Nodding is easy with an empty head. Satirical aphorisms (translated by Drago and Käthe Grah). 1st edition. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1979, 2nd edition 1980, 3rd edition 1985. 4th edition: Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-902005-35-1 (for 4th edition 2004).
  • Sky in squares. Aphorisms and little prose. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-222-11357-2 .
  • Before us the flood . Aphorisms. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-222-11493-5 .
  • The birth of oblivion. Novel. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1987, ISBN 3-222-11740-3 .
  • Many of today's gentlemen were comrades yesterday. New aphorisms. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1990, ISBN 3-222-11978-3 .
  • The wonderful life of Jozip B. Tito. A farce in prose. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1992, ISBN 3-222-12155-9 .
  • Past. Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-85013-263-3 .
  • The world in one sentence. New aphorisms and little poetry. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-222-12279-2 .
  • From tomorrow to yesterday. Collected aphorisms. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-222-12483-3 .
  • The ways are getting shorter. Poems. (Translated by Janko Ferk ). Hermagoras, Klagenfurt / Ljubljana / Vienna 1997, ISBN 3-85013-518-7 .
  • Laughing is strictly forbidden. Encyclopedia of Humor. Styria, Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-222-12676-3 .
  • Over the edge of the world. Life story. Edition Atelier, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85308-050-2 .
  • Laugh gently! (Translated by Käthe Grah), Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-902005-10-6 .
  • The funny dictator: a farce (translated by Birgit Volčanšek Babič). Kitab, Klagenfurt / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-902005-88-5 (portrait of an "unscrupulous dictator" - Tito).

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personal data
SURNAME Petan, Žarko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Ljubljana
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 2014