Andrei Kokot

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Andrej Kokot (born November 23, 1936 in Oberdorf ( Slovenian Zgornja vas ) near Köstenberg , municipality of Velden am Wörther See (Slovenian Vrba ob jezeru ); † November 7, 2012 in Klagenfurt ) was a writer, poet and translator of the Slovenian-speaking ethnic group in Carinthia .

Life

In 1942 Andrej Kokot and his family were deported by the National Socialists because they belonged to the Slovenian ethnic group . From 1942 to 1945 he was interned with his family in the Rehnitz , Rastatt and Gerlachsheim camps. His brother Jožek Kokot was hanged on September 25, 1944 in Mauthausen concentration camp . In the spring months of 1945 the family returned to Köstenberg.

From 1963 to 1980 Andrej Kokot was secretary of the Slovenian Cultural Association in Klagenfurt / Celovec. From 1980 to 1991 he worked as the cultural editor of the Slovenian-language newspaper “Slovenski vestnik”.

Andrej Kokot also worked as a translator. He has translated texts by Peter Handke , Erich Fried and Michael Guttenbrunner into Slovenian , among others . Andrej Kokot, who wrote his works in Slovenian, also translated his own works into German.

Kokot lived as a pensioner in Klagenfurt / Celovec together with his wife Milka Kokot.

He was awarded the Nagrada Prešernovega sklada, Laibach / Ljubljana 1983.

Works

  • Zemlja molči. Poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 1969.
  • Ura vesti. Poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 1970.
  • Ringaraja. Children's poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 1983.
  • The kid that I was (slo. org. "Ko zori Spomin.") Remembrance of the expulsion of the Carinthian Slovenes. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 1996.
  • Pastirjevi rajmi. Poems in the Slovenian dialect. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 1996.
  • Koroški rožni venec. Selected poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Hermagoras / Mohorjeva, 2001.
  • Pozabljeno sonce. Poems. Klagenfurt / Celovec, Drava, 2007.

literature

  • " The child that I was - Andrei Kokot. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carinthian writer Andrej Kokot died. Archived from the original on November 10, 2012 .;
  2. ^ Andrej Kokot ( Memento from July 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Biography, Austrian Society for Literature; Archive version of July 27, 2010
  3. ↑ www.literaturhaus.at
personal data
SURNAME Kokot, Andrei
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer of Slovene ethnicity
DATE OF BIRTH November 23, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberdorf near Köstenberg
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 2012
Place of death Klagenfurt