Anne Cuneo

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Anne Cuneo (2007)

Anne Cuneo (born September 6, 1936 in Paris ; † February 11, 2015 ) was a Swiss writer and director . She lived in Zurich .

Life

Anne Cuneo was born to Italian parents in Paris in 1936. After the outbreak of World War II, the family left France and moved to Milan.

After her father died in 1945, she spent her childhood in various orphanages in Italy . In 1950 she came to French-speaking Lausanne . She then spent some time in London , where she learned English almost like her third mother tongue . Back in Lausanne, she studied English, Italian and history at the university . After completing her studies in 1964, she gave language lessons. From 1973 she worked in various functions on Swiss television.

She published her first work in 1967 (Gravé au Diamant) . In Eine Messerspitze blau (1979) and in the two-volume portrait of the author as an ordinary woman (1980 and 1982) she dealt autobiographically with her breast cancer and her immigration to Switzerland.

The detective novel Herz aus Eisen , published in 1998, was the first case for the private investigator Maria Machiavelli. This was followed by Vergessen ist Gold (1999), Lisa's smile (2000) and Hotel Herzschlag (2004). Her last novel was published in 2013 under the title Already the forest goes up in flames . It is a historical novel based on real events at the Schauspielhaus Zürich , where many Jewish actors and actresses found refuge during the Third Reich.

In addition to her literary and journalistic activities, she worked for theater and film. Numerous essays , such as Le Piano du pauvre (1975), La Machine Fantaisie (1976), Le Monde des forains (1985) and Benno Besson et Hamlet (1987), testify to her fascination for these arts . In the novels about Francis Tregian (1993), Emilia Bassano ( Shakespeare's Beloved aka Dark Lady ) (1996) and John Florio (2011), she described the lives of three people in England during the Elizabethan Age . She wrote another historical novel about Antoine Augereau (2004).

She made her first documentary in 1980 together with Lucienne Lanaz and Erich Liebi, in which the role of women in the Swiss Film Weekly (1940–1975) is the theme. As a director she made more than ten other documentaries, several of them about Swiss personalities of the 20th century such as Friedrich Glauser (1995), Adrian Frutiger (1999), Anne-Marie Blanc (2001), Ettore Cella (2002), Ferdy Kübler (2003 ) and Max G. Bollag (2007).

Works

Stories and novels

  • Gravé au diamond, 1967
  • Mortelle maladie , 1969. (German things covered with shadow: a report , translated by Pierre Imhasly . Benziger, Zurich 1975, ISBN 3-545-36246-9 ).
  • La vermine , 1970
  • Jours du chat , 1972
  • Poussière du réveil , 1972
  • Le piano du pauvre: La vie de Denise Letourneur, musicienne , 1975
  • La Machine Fantaisie , 1977
  • Passage des Panoramas , 1978. (German. Passage des Panoramas. A journey to one's own self , translated by Erich Liebi. Suhrkamp, ​​Zurich 1980, ISBN 3-288-02561-2 ).
  • Une cuillerée de bleu: chronique d'une ablation , 1979. (German. A knife point blue. Chronicle of an ablation , translated by Erich Liebi. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1982, ISBN 3-85791-047-X ).
  • Les Portes du jour, Portrait de l'auteur en femme ordinaire vol 1, 1980. (German portrait of the author as an ordinary woman. Before Tau und Tag , translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-85791 -068-2 ).
  • Le Temps des loups blancs, Portrait de l'auteur en femme ordinaire vol 2, 1982. (German portrait of the author as an ordinary woman. The time of the white wolves , translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1985, ISBN 3 -85791-098-4 ).
  • Hôtel Vénus, 1984. (German Hotel Venus , translated by Tobias Wyss. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1984, ISBN 3-85791-085-2 ).
  • Le Monde des forains , 1985
  • Station Victoria , 1989. (German Station Victoria. Roman , transl. By Maria Helena Nyberg. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1991, ISBN 3-85791-188-3 ).
  • Prague aux doigts de feu , 1990. (Dt. Štěpán. Days of Truth in Prague , translated by Claudia Steinitz. Bilgerverlag, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03762-019-9 ).
  • Le trajet d'une rivière: la vie et les aventures parfois secrètes de Francis Tregian, gentilhomme et musicien , 1993. (Ger. The course of the river. The life and adventures of Francis Tregian, gentleman and musician , transl. By Peter Sidler . Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85791-233-2 ).
  • La flûte et les ratonneurs: chronique d'un petit pays , 1994
  • Au bas de mon rêve , 1995
  • Objets de splendeur: Mr. Shakespeare amoureux , 1996. (German Dark Lady. A novel about Shakespeare's great love , translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 1998, ISBN 3-85791-319-3 ).
  • Ame de bronze , 1998. (German heart made of iron. The first case of Marie Machiavelli , translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2000, ISBN 3-85791-340-1 ).
  • D'or et d'oublis , 1999. (German. Forget is gold. The second case of Marie Machiavelli , translated by Peter Sidler. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2001, ISBN 3-85791-368-1 ).
  • Le sourire de Lisa , 2000. (German Lisa's smile. Marie Machiavelli's third case , translated by Erich Liebi. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2003, ISBN 3-85791-368-1 ).
  • Le Maître de Garamond: Antoine Augereau, graveur, imprimeur, éditeur, libraire , 2002. (Ger. Garamond's teacher. Antoine Augereau, type cutter, printer, publisher, bookseller , translated by Erich Liebi. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2004, ISBN 3 -85791-463-7 ).
  • Entre Lumière et Ombres; Loyse de Savoie , 2003
  • Hôtel des coeurs brisés: une enquête de Marie Machiavelli , 2004. (German Hotel Herzschlag. A doping case for Marie Machiavelli , translated by Erich Liebi. Limmat-Verlag, Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-85791-537-6 ).
  • Les corbeaux sur nos plaines , 2005
  • Lacunes de la Mémoire , 2006. (German memory gaps. Marie Macchiavelli's fifth case , translated by Erich Liebi, Bilgerverlag, Zurich, 2015, ISBN 978-3-03762-048-9 ).
  • Zaïda: fragments d'une vie , 2007. (Dt. Zaïda. Roman , translated by Erich Liebi. Bilgerverlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03762-004-5 ).
  • Conversations chez les Blanc à propos d'Anne-Marie Blanc, comédienne , 2009. (German conversations in the Blanc house with Anne-Marie Blanc, actress , translated by Erich Liebi. Römerhof-Verlag, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3- 905894-04-2 ).
  • Un monde de mots - John Florio, traducteur, lexicographe, pédagogue, homme de lettres , Bernard Campiche Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-2-88241-297-3 . (German. A world of words. Biography of a novel. [The memoirs of Master John Florio, Chamberlain to Her Blessed Majesty Queen Anna, for the purpose of announcing his origin, his life and his works to posterity] , translated by Erich Liebi. Bilgerverlag , Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03762-030-4 ).
  • La tempête des heures , 2013. (German. The forest is already going up in flames , translated by Erich Liebi. Bilgerverlag, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-03762-036-6 ).
  • Gatti's variétés , 2014. (German: The Ice King from the Blenio Valley , translated by Erich Liebi, Bilgerverlag, Zurich, 2017, ISBN 978-3-03762-066-3 ).

Audio books

  • The Little Prince's rose

Awards

literature

Web links

Commons : Anne Cuneo  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A life for literature . Obituary by Andrea Kucera. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung from February 12, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Cuneo, Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 2015