Anne Rice

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Anne Rice (2006)

Anne O'Brien Rice (born October 4, 1941 as Howard Allen O'Brien in New Orleans , Louisiana , † December 11, 2021 ) was an American writer . She was best known for her twelve-volume cycle of vampire novels , the Chronicle of the Vampires (OT: The Vampire Chronicles ).

Life

Anne Rice was born in New Orleans in 1941 to Irish immigrants. She was named Howard Allen O'Brien (Howard was her father's name, Allen was her mother's maiden name, Katherine) because her mother believed a masculine-sounding name could be beneficial to a girl. When entering a Catholic girls' school, the first name was changed to Anne; The six-year-old had chosen the name herself.

In 1961 she married the poet Stan Rice . Their daughter Michele, who was born in 1966, died of leukemia in 1972 . In 1978 Anne Rice's son Christopher , who is also a novelist, was born. Anne Rice's sister Alice Borchardt was also a writer. Her family also included the Hollywood cameraman Allen Daviau , who was her cousin.

Rice has had diabetes since 1998 . The disease temporarily left her in a diabetic coma . Since then she has been campaigning for her early detection. In 2005 she sold her home in the Garden District of New Orleans and moved to San Diego, California . From spring 2006, she lived in Rancho Mirage , a settlement in the Coachella Valley in the California desert near Palm Springs .

In 2020 it was announced that she had given her personal archive to a university in her hometown of New Orleans for research purposes. It also includes materials from her late husband Stan Rice and sister Alice Borchardt.

Anne Rice died of complications from a stroke in December 2021 at the age of 80 .

Faith

Rice was raised Catholic and found her way back to Catholicism after she turned away from the faith in college and professed atheism after her daughter's death . Therefore, she no longer wanted to write about vampires and witches , but to devote herself to Christian topics. In addition to her work on the Jesus Christ series, Rice finished work on the first volume in the Songs of the Seraphim series in 2008 ; she called the series a "metaphysical thriller".

In 2010 she made her renewed departure from the Catholic Church public, which she justified with the behavior of other Christians, towards whom she had always remained an outsider and to whom she had hostility towards homosexuals , women, artificial birth control, the Democratic Party , secular humanism , science and accused life. In doing so, she emphasized that she should continue to believe in Christ .

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Vampire chronicle and witch saga

In 1976 Rice's debut work was published, the vampire novel Interview with the Vampire ( German title see book list below ). In the tragic story of the vampire child Claudia, who cannot grow up, Anne Rice comes to terms with the early death of her young daughter.

The worldwide success of the book prompted Anne Rice to write more vampire novels. The first sequel appeared in 1985: The Vampire Lestat (English: Prince of Darkness ). Originally wanted to Rice the series in 1992 after four volumes with the novel The Tale of the Body Thief (dt .: Nightmare ) finish.

Anne Rice began in 1990 with the Locus Award winning novel The Witching Hour (dt .: Witching Hour ) a second series of books: the witches saga "Lives Of The Mayfair Witches". However, the series remained despite good reviews from readers over the long term less successful than the Vampire Chronicles , so that Anne Rice, the Mayfair saga initially hired again and instead the Vampire Chronicles 1995 Memnoch the Devil (dt .: Memnoch the Devil ) continued.

At the end of the 1990s Anne Rice planned a new series about the vampires: "New Tales of the Vampires", which was discontinued after only two volumes ( Pandora and Vittorio ). The third, begun by her volume of this series Blood and Gold (dt .: Blood and Gold ) appeared as the title of the Vampire Chronicles .

With Merrick and Blackwood Farm , Anne Rice finally combined the vampire chronicle and witch saga. The connection between vampires and witches met with a mixed response from critics and readers. Both series should end with the tenth volume of the vampire chronicle: Blood Canticle (German: Song of Songs ).

In March 2014, Anne Rice announced in the media that she had submitted a new manuscript for the vampire chronicles to her publisher. The novel was published on October 28, 2014 under the title Prince Lestat .

In 2004 she received the Bram Stoker Award for her life's work.

Erotic novels

Rice has published various erotic novels with a strong BDSM reference under the pseudonyms Anne Rampling , A. Roquelaure and AN Roquelaure .

Rice wrote the Sleeping Beauty trilogy under the pseudonym AN Roquelaure . From 1990 the Goldmann Verlag published this trilogy for the German-speaking area. In 1992 the first two volumes were indexed in Germany. Goldmann subsequently waived further editions of the third volume:

  • Sleeping Beauty awakening. Erotic adventures of a princess , Anne Roquelaure, indexed in Federal Gazette No. 184 of September 30, 1992
  • Sleeping Beauty Punishment , Anne Roquelaure, paperback number 9846 Goldmann, Munich, indexed in the Federal Gazette No. 224 of November 28, 1992

In 2011 the Marterpfahl Verlag published a new edition of the complete trilogy with an explanatory foreword. It is thus freely available again in Germany in a German translation.

The likewise sadomasochistic novel Exit to Eden (German: Forbidden Desire ) is freely available.

Belinda tells a love story between a grown man and an underage girl.

Christ the Lord

Since 2003, Anne Rice has been working on her series of novels about the life of Jesus Christ. The first volume was published in November 2005: Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt . The book was in 2015, directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh entitled The Young Messiah ( The Young Messiah ) filmed. The second volume, The Road to Cana , went on sale in March 2008.

Other works

Rice wrote two historical novels without fantastic elements: The Feast of all Saints (not published in German) and Cry to Heaven (German: Falsetto ), two fantasy novels: The Mummy (German: The Mummy or Ramses the Damned ) and Servant of the Bones (dt .: angel of the damned ) and an autobiographical novel: Violin (not published in German). In 1985, the vampire story was The Master of Rampling Gate (dt .: The Lord of Rampling Gate ) as Rice's contribution to the anthology Vampire Stories by Women .

She also wrote scripts, including to the American television series Earth Angels (was not broadcast in Germany) and the mystery thriller Rag and Bone (German: In the face of good and bad ). Rice's script The Mummy or Ramses The Damned was never put into film, so she rewrote the story into a novel. Another film project that was never realized is The Bride of Frankenstein . From the end of the 1970s to the mid-1980s, Anne Rice wrote, sometimes under a pseudonym, for various magazines, including Playboy and Vogue . In 2012 she published The Wolf Gift , excerpts of which she read on YouTube .

Adaptations

  • Interview with a Vampire was filmed in 1994 by Neil Jordan, starring Tom Cruise , Brad Pitt , Antonio Banderas , and Kirsten Dunst and was a huge commercial hit. In the run-up to filming, Rice publicly criticized the cast of Tom Cruise as Lestat. After she had seen the film, she withdrew the allegations and hada self-written, full-page review of the film publishedin Variety at her own expense.
  • In 2002, Queen of the Damned, the film adaptation of the second and third novels from The Chronicle of the Vampires (with Stuart Townsend as Lestat). However, the film flopped at the box office.
  • Her novel The Feast of All Saints was filmed and broadcast as a TV miniseries in 2001.
  • The musical Lestat by Elton John and Bernie Taupin , that of Interview with the Vampire and The Vampire Lestat was inspired, had in December 2005 in San Francisco premiere. The first reviews were mixed, but the negative voices predominated. Therefore, the musical started in March 2006 in a revised version on Broadway. But Lestat's audience and critics were also disappointed in New York , and it was removed from the program after two months.

factories

Chronicle of the Vampires / The Vampire Chronicles

Ramses the Damned

The Mayfair Witches / Lives Of The Mayfair Witches

Neue Chronik der Vampire / New Tales of the Vampires

  • Pandora , Alfred A. Knopf 1998, ISBN 0-375-40159-8 .
    • Pandora , Hoffmann and Campe 2001, translator Barbara Kesper, ISBN 3-455-06263-6 .
    • also published as: Die Herrin des Schattenreichs , 2008.
  • Vittorio the Vampire: New Tales of the Vampires , Alfred A. Knopf 1999, ISBN 0-375-40160-1 .
    • Vittorio , Hoffmann and Campe 2001, translator Barbara Kesper, ISBN 3-455-06265-2 .
    • also published as: The Kiss of the Demoness , 2008.

The Jesus Christ series / Christ The Lord

Planned as a tetralogy according to Anne Rice.

Songs of the Seraphim

The Wolf Gift Chronicles

Single novels

Short stories

  • October 4th, 1948 , 1965
  • Nicholas and Jean , 1966 - later rewritten as a thesis in Creative Writing to: Katherine and Jean , 1972
  • Interview with the Vampire (original version) , 1968
  • The Art of the Vampire at its Peak in the Year 1876 , 1979
  • The Master of Rampling Gate , 1985 ( The Lord of Rampling Gate , 1992) (Vampire story unrelated to the Chronicle of the Vampires)

Autobiography

  • Called Out Of Darkness , 2008

article

  • David Bowie and the End of Gender ( Vogue , 1983)

Scripts

  • The Mummy or Ramses The Damned , 1988 (film was never made)
  • The Bride of Frankenstein , 1992 (film was not made)
  • Interview with a vampire , 1994 (with Neil Jordan)
  • Rag and Bone , 1997 (TV film, German title "In the face of good and bad")
  • Earth Angels , 2001 (TV series)

Erotic novels

Sleeping Beauty Trilogy / Sleeping Beauty

Under the name of AN Roquelaure.

More novels

Under the pseudonym Anne Rampling

literature

  • Rebecca Cordes: Anne Rice's "Vampire Chronicles". Myth and History . The other publishing house, Osnabrück 2004, ISBN 3-89959-159-3 .
  • Joy Dickinson: Haunted City. An unauthorized guide to the magical magnificent New Orleans of Anne Rice . Citadel Press, New York 2004, ISBN 0-8065-2525-8 .
  • Gary Hoppenstand (Ed.): The Gothic World Of Anne Rice . University Press, Bowling Green, Ohio 1996, ISBN 0-87972-707-1 .
  • Jana Marcus: In The Shadow Of The Vampire. Reflections from the world of Anne Rice . Thunder's Mouth Press, New York 1997, ISBN 1-56025-147-6 .
  • Katherine M. Ramsland: Prism Of The Night, A biography of Anne Rice . Plume Books, New York 1994, ISBN 0-452-26862-1 .
  • Michael Riley: Conversations With Anne Rice . Ballantine, New York 1996, ISBN 0-345-39636-7 .

Web links

Commons : Anne Rice  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ US University receives archive of the author Anne Rice ( Memento from February 3, 2020 in the Internet Archive ), “Kulturnachrichten” on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from February 2, 2020, accessed February 3, 2020
  2. ^ Anne Rice, author of gothic novels, dead at 80. In: The Seattle Times , December 12, 2021, accessed December 12, 2021.
  3. ↑ www.stern.de Stern-Magazin, issue 37/2007
  4. ↑ www.annerice.com Announcement on Anne Rice's homepage of November 17, 2008
  5. ↑ http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/2010/08/spiritual_but_not_religious/all.html , http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=113868381998571&id=66435815451
  6. ↑ Queer: Because of gay hatred: Anne Rice renounces Christianity
  7. ^ "Anne Rice leaves Christianity" on CNN's Marquee Blog
  8. ^ The Guardian, March 11, 2014: "Anne Rice revives much loved vampire"
  9. ^ Anne Rice Discusses The Wolf Gift in New Video; More Signing Events Confirmed ( Memento from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Rice, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rampling, Anne; Roquelaure, AN; Roquelaure, A .; Howard Allen O'Brien
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
BIRTH DATE October 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH New Orleans , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2021