Ada Zapperi Sugar

Ada Zapperi Sugar, 2010

Ada Zapperi Zucker (born January 14, 1937 in Catania / Italy) is an Italian writer whose novels and stories are often set in South Tyrol . Her subjects deal primarily with the effects of war and dictatorship on the fate of the mostly female protagonists.

Life

Ada Zapperi Zucker was born in Catania and studied piano and singing in Rome and graduated from the Vienna University of Music . At the same time she has worked for the Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani , for the Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo and the Enciclopedia Universale De Agostini and wrote many biographies of musicians and singers for these encyclopedias. As an opera singer, she was mainly active outside Italy, currently she teaches singing in Germany and South Tyrol and has lived in Munich for many years .

She came into closer contact with South Tyrol through teaching at the education center in Bolzano . As a born Italian, but also familiar with Austrian culture through her marriage, this country stimulated her interest in politics and history. The stories she was told by her South Tyrolean singing students led to her first volume of stories in 2007, “La scuola delle catacombe”, which was also published in German under the title “Die Katakombenschule”.

Other books followed, often with a focus on South Tyrol, and some were awarded prizes in Italy. In the book “La Cucchiara”, published in 2015, she turns to her Sicilian origins. This Sicilian family saga in the form of stories also received a prize at the literary competition “San Domenicchino di Massa Carrara”.

Services

With her books, Ada Zapperi Zucker has made an outstanding contribution to the understanding between the two ethnic groups (Italian / German) in South Tyrol. Mainly through the volume of stories "Die Katakombenschule" ("La scuola delle catacombe") she became known in South Tyrol and was often invited to lectures in schools. Catacomb schools were underground schools (mostly in parsonages) that were secretly established for German-speaking children during the prohibition of the use of German languages ​​in the era of fascism. As has often been emphasized, Ada Zapperi Zucker, as a non-South Tyrolean, but familiar with the German-Austrian culture through her life in the German-speaking area, has a completely different approach to the problems of the two ethnic groups than authors who are either affected as South Tyroleans themselves, or really only know one of the two cultures.

Works, in German

• The silence. Novel. Meran / Klagenfurt 2010, ISBN 978-88-7223-130-2 . (on-line)
• The catacomb school. Stories. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943810-02-8 . (on-line)
• Theater of Shadows. Novel. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943810-05-9 . (on-line)
• A day in Bolzano. Stories. Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-943810-07-3 . (on-line)
• About women and other creatures. Bilingual stories. Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-943810-11-0 . (on-line)
• The discomfort of Sora Elsa. Stories. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-943810-12-7 . (on-line)
• From Sicily to Tuscany. Bilingual stories. Second author Lorella Rotondi. Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943810-16-5 . ( Online )

• The house on Widenmayerstraße. Novel. Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943810-19-6 . (on-line)
• Love and other annoyances. Bilingual stories. Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-943810-20-2 . (on-line)
• Singing people . Singers' answers to 17 questions. Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-943810-18-9 . (on-line)
• Herta and other stories . Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-943810-23-3 . ( online )

Works, in Italian

• La scuola delle catacombe. Racconti. Rome 2007, ISBN 978-88-6185-438-3 . New edition: Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943810-01-1 . (on-line)
• Il silenzio. Romanzo. Meran 2009, ISBN 978-88-7223-115-9 . (on-line)
• Le inquietudini della sora Elsa. Racconti. Chieti 2011, ISBN 978-88-7475-220-1 . (on-line)
• Teatro di ombre. Romanzo. Arezzo 2012, ISBN 978-88-6466-161-2 . (on-line)
• Un giorno a Bolzano. Racconti. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-943810-06-6 . (on-line)
• La Cucchiara. Racconti Siciliani. Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-943810-09-7 . (on-line)
• La casa del nonno. Romanzo. Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-943810-14-1 . (on-line)
• I Padri assenti. Due racconti. Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-943810-17-2 . (on-line)
• Un'infanzia quasi felice. Racconti. Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-943810-21-9 . (on-line)
• Una vita di donna in Sicilia. Romanzo. Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-943810-24-0 . ( online )

Literature prizes (selection)

• Honorary Prize in the Casentino Literature Competition , Poppi 2017, for La casa del nonno
• First Prize Literature Competition San Domenichino , Città di Massa 2015, for La cucchiara
• First prize in the Casentino Literature Competition , Poppi 2012, for Teatro di ombre
• Full price literary competition of the Stiftung Kreatives Alter , Zurich 2012, for Le inquietudini della sora Elsa
• First prize in the Chianti literature competition , Greve 2011, for Il silenzio
• First Prize in the Literature Competition Giovanni Gronchi , Pontedera 2008, for La scuola delle catacombe

literature

• Toni Colleselli: Narrare l'Alto Adige. alpha beta Verlag, Meran 2015, ISBN 978-88-7223-246-0 .
• Helmuth Schönauer: Diary of a librarian . Volume VI, 2016–2018. Sisyphus-Verlag, Klagenfurt 2019. ISBN 978-3-903125-35-3 . The discomfort of Sora Elsa p. 77; From Sicily to Tuscany p. 435; The house on Widenmayerstraße p. 638; Love and other annoyances p. 747;

Web links

• Website of Ada Zapperi Zucker (German / Italian)
• Literature by and about Ada Zapperi Zucker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Ada Zapperi Zucker in the bibliographic database WorldCat

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of the award winners as a pdf
2. ↑ Prize winners. Retrieved January 1, 2019 .