Aglaya Veteranyi

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Aglaja Veteranyi (born May 17, 1962 in Bucharest ; † February 3, 2002 in Zurich ) was a Swiss actress and writer .

Life

Aglaja Veteranyi came from a Romanian family of circus performers; the father was Tandarica Veteranyi and performed as a clown , her mother was the acrobat Josefina Tanasa . In 1967 the family fled Romania . In the following years Aglaya Veteranyi was forced to perform as an artist and dancer. In 1977 the family settled in Switzerland. Aglaja Veteranyi was able to speak Romanian and Spanish, but because she had not attended a regular school due to the frequent changes of location, she was illiterate . She learned the written and spoken German language herself . In addition, she completed an acting training at the Schauspielgemeinschaft Zürich , where she then also taught.

Veteranyi has lived in Zurich as a freelance writer and actress since 1982 . In 1988, together with Christian Seiler, she took over the management of the Zurich Acting Association (now the Zurich Acting School ) until August 2001 . She has published numerous texts in magazines and anthologies and has worked on various theater projects. a. with René Oberholzer in the literary experimental group The Word Pump . She was a member of the German-Swiss PEN Center . Participation in the Ingeborg Bachmann competition 1999 ( Why the child cooks in the polenta ). Since autumn 2001, Aglaja Veteranyi has been in a mental crisis, which led to her suicide in February 2002 by drowning in Lake Zurich .

Aglaja Veteranyi has written novels , short stories, poems and plays . Above all, her autobiographical texts, in which she dealt with her difficult childhood, were highly praised by literary critics for their authenticity . Her novel The Shelf of the Last Breaths remained unfinished and was published posthumously .

She found her final resting place in the Manegg cemetery in Zurich .

Awards

Works

  • A dance of death: gifts. With woodcuts by Jean-Jacques Volz. Edition Peter Petrej, Zurich 1999.
  • Why the child cooks in the polenta. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-421-05216-6 . / Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-423-12908-5 .
    • Edition with woodcuts by Katrin Stangl . University of Graphics and Book Art, Leipzig 2004.
    • Translations: Spanish (2001) Romanian (2003), Hungarian (2003), Slovak (2004), French (2004), English (2012).,
    • Theater versions:
      • Ilka Schönbein: My own flesh and blood (Chair de ma chair).
      • Nadine Schwitter: Why the child cooks in the polenta. Stadttheater Bern and Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, 2010, and Theater Bonn, 2013.
  • The shelf of the last breaths. Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Stuttgart / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-421-05377-4 . / Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-13217-5 .
    • Translations: Romanian (2003), Slovak (2006).
  • About the cleared sea, the rented socks and Mrs. Butter. With an afterword by Werner Morlang . Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-421-05832-6 . / Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 3-423-14066-6 .
    • Translations: Polish (2005)
  • Cafe papa. Fragments. The healthy shipping of people, Lucerne 2018, ISBN 978-3-03853-084-8 .
  • Words instead of furniture. Found objects. The healthy shipping of people, Lucerne 2018, ISBN 978-3-03853-083-1 .
  • Here heaven. 30 postcards. The healthy shipping of people, Lucerne 2018, ISBN 978-3-03853-085-5 .
Contributions to anthologies (selection)
  • The sibling. The garden. The stronger one. The lesson. The reward. The factory. The stranger. End of working day. Child's play. Snowfall . Short stories. In: Luggage 3. Short prose anthology. Ed. V. Wolfgang G. Schulze. Verlag freelance authors, Fulda 1995. ISBN 3-88611-180-6 .
  • The House. The turn. Short stories. In: Region Wil 1995 . Portrait of the word pump in the culture section. Arwag-Verlag, Wil 1995
  • The song. Why the child cooks in the polenta. Short stories . In: Völkerfrei. 25 years of Krautgarten. A reader. Ed. V. Klaus Wiegerling. Edition Krautgarten, St. Vith 2007, ISBN 2-87316-030-6 .
Articles in magazines and newspapers (selection)
  • The wedding . Short story. In: Zürcher Unterländer . February 20, 1993. Bülach 1993.
  • The revolutionary. The lesson. The doll. The cut up parents (the wedding, making love, the father, the visit, punishment). My births . In: Lillegal . Literary newspaper. No. 14. Man child . Salzburg 1994.
  • Breakfast. After work . Short stories. In: Labyrinth & Minefield. Literary magazine. No. 6/7. Osnabrück 1995.
  • Bread obligation. The aborted child. The family tree. The reward. Eugene. Happy event. Native language. Short stories. In: Lillegal . Literary newspaper. No. 15. Salzburg 1995.
  • The stranger. Short story. In: At the bay window. Journal of Literature. No. 29. To a stranger everything easily seems strange. Münster 1995, ISBN 3-925084-16-9 .
  • Making love (personal values, the man's table, a happy family, tied up, the forest, the housewives party, the widows' hall, love at first death). Native language. Tear mediation . Short stories. In: converter. Journal of Literature. No. 15. Constance 1995.
  • Watch out !. The attraction. Tear mediation . Short stories. In: headwind. Journal of Literature. No. 8. Ed. Literary Working Group Augsburg. Augsburg 1995.
  • The turn. Snowfall. Short stories. Intuition. Dialog. In: Labyrinth & Minefield . Literary magazine. No. 8. Osnabrück 1995.
  • The word tamer. Why the child cooks in the polenta. Short stories. In: Any kind . Essen magazine for poetry, prose and graphics. No. 11. Heiligenhaus 1996.
  • The Bulandra. Roast beef for slender hearts (The attraction, The breakfast, Leaning, The relatives, Please do not touch, after work). Why I'm No Angel . Short stories. In: fish . Literary magazine. No. 1. Würzburg 1996.
  • The suitcase. The waiting room. The escape . Short stories. In: fish . Literary magazine. No. 3. Würzburg 1997.
  • The question room. The Bulandra. The Company. Collection point . Short stories. In: the booklet that wanted to change its long name . Literary magazine. No. 1. Ed. Matthias Burki. Bern 1998.
  • Instructions on how to cough correctly . Short story. In: Log . International literature journal. No. 84. Vienna 1999.

literature

  • Rosmarie Zeller: Veteranyi, Aglaja. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  • Rudolf Bussmann and Martin Zingg (eds.): Continue writing Aglaja Veteranyi. With contributions by Monica Cantieni, Guy Krneta , Gabriele Markus, Mariella Mehr, Michael Mettler, Werner Morlang and Jens Nielsen. In: Drehpunkt, Schweizer Literaturzeitschrift, No. 114, October 2002. Lenos Verlag, Basel 2002.
  • Laura Gieser: Homeless world literature? On the work of Aglaya Veteranyi. In: Germanica, No. 38, 2006, ISBN 2-913857-17-5 .
  • Vesna Kondrič Horvat: Family pictures as time pictures with Franco Supino and Aglaja Veteranyi. In: Beatrice Sandberg (Ed.): Family pictures as time pictures. Contemporary stories told by Swiss authors from the 18th century to the present. Frank & Timme, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86596-288-1 . Pp. 281-292.
  • Nina Neudecker: I don't know what a mother tongue is. Portrait and texts by Aglaya Veteranyi. In: Swiss Monthly Issues , Focus Chamisso Prize. Issue 938, February 2005 (excerpt online)
  • René Oberholzer : My home is the German language. On the homeland and homelessness of the Aglaya Veteranyi. Essay. In: Driesch - Journal for Literature & Culture , No. 10. Driesch Verlag, Drösing 2012, ISSN  2078-6433 . Pp. 130-135.
  • Katja Suren: "I prefer to have stories with people who eat or are cooked". On the supposedly unifying power of eating with Natascha Wodin and Aglaja Veteranyi. In: Claudia Lillge and Anne-Rose Meyer (eds.): Intercultural meals. Culinary encounters and communication in literature. Transcript-Verlag, Bielefeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89942-881-0 . Pp. 171-184.
  • Katja Suren: An angel disguised himself as an angel and remained unrecognized: Childlike rhetoric with Natascha Wodin, Herta Müller and Aglaja Veteranyi. Dissertation. University of Paderborn, 2010.

Movie

  • Ludwig Metzger: Here heaven - Aglaja Veteranyi. Film portrait by SFDRS and WDR for 3sat , 2003.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Communication including writing and reading samples. Robert Bosch Foundation, accessed on December 13, 2010.
  2. ^ Book portrait ( Memento from May 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Lengua de Trapo publishing house, Madrid, accessed on September 4, 2013.
  3. ↑ Aglaya Veteranyi on the Dalkey Archive Press website, accessed January 17, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.legrandparquet.net/pdf/die_alte_und_das_biest.pdf (link not available)
  5. ↑ Petra Bail: A soul like a child's bottom. http://www.imaginale.net/fileadmin/imaginale/media/pressespiegel_2010/IM_Esslinger_Zeitung.pdf (link not available)
  6. ↑ Description of the play ( memento of August 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) by the Schauspielhaus Hamburg . Retrieved December 19, 2010.
  7. ↑ Description of the play on the website of the Theater Bonn, accessed on August 1, 2014.
  8. ^ Text sample and review quote ( memento from October 25, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) at lyrikwelt.de, accessed on December 13, 2010.
  9. ↑ Book review with afterword quote. In Sand am Meer - literary magazine on the Internet. June 2004. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  10. ^ Publisher information with text samples , accessed on December 13, 2010.
  11. ↑ In it by Werner Morlang: Speech for Aglaja. Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  12. ↑ Full text online since February 19, 2010, accessed on December 13, 2010.
  13. ↑ Book Description ( Memento from November 6, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) at Transcript Verlag . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  14. ^ List of doctorates at the University of Paderborn . Retrieved December 21, 2010.
  15. ↑ Title is published by Helmer , Sulzbach 2011, ISBN 978-3-89741-316-0 .
  16. ↑ Press release about the award at Literavision 2004, accessed on December 13, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Veteranyi, Aglaya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss actress and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th May 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2002
Place of death Zurich