Antonio Skármeta

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Antonio Skármeta (2009)
Antonio Skármeta (1981)

Antonio Skármeta (born November 7, 1940 in Antofagasta ) is a Chilean writer .

Life

He is the son of Croatian immigrants from the island of Brač . Skármeta is the author of numerous novels and short stories. As a supporter of Salvador Allende, he had to leave his country after the 1973 military coup and lived in exile in West Berlin . Here he wrote scripts for German films, a. a. for Peter Lilienthal . Skármeta returned to Chile in 1989.

His best-known book is the novel With Burning Patience , which is based on his screenplay for the film of the same name from 1983. The film, shot in black and white and with modest means, only achieved world fame through Michael Radford's 1994 film under the title The Postman (Il Postino) . The film and the book deal with the friendship between a postman and the Chilean Nobel Prize laureate Pablo Neruda . The postman falls in love with a girl from the village where Neruda lives, and through Neruda's poems he expresses his love for the girl and eventually becomes a poet himself. In the book, the friendship ends in 1973 with Neruda's death after the coup. The title of the book goes back to a quote from Arthur Rimbaud : “At dawn, armed with armed patience, we will enter the cities.” Skármeta wrote in his novel: “Only with ardent patience will we conquer the shining city, all of them Will give people light, justice and dignity. So poetry will not have sung in vain. ”In Radford's film, Neruda is portrayed by the French actor Philippe Noiret . In 1984 Skármeta received the special award from the Minister of Culture of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of the Adolf Grimme Prize for the film adaptation .

After the return of democracy in Chile, Skármeta was appointed Chilean ambassador to Berlin in 2000 and held this office until 2003. He is a member of the PEN Center Germany . He hosted a literary program on Chilean television that presented current books.

Skármeta received the Premio Nacional de Literatura de Chile in 2014 .

Works in German translation

  • I dreamed the snow was burning , 1978
  • Nothing happened , 1978
  • The uprising , 1981
  • With burning patience , 1984
  • The cyclist from San Cristóbal , 1986
  • Sophie's match ball , 1989
  • From a distance I see this country. A Chilean in Berlin , 1993
  • The Poet's Wedding , 2000
  • The girl with the trumpet , 2002
  • Mitlesebuch 61 - Berlin Stories , Aphaia Verlag, Berlin 2002
  • The essay , 2003
  • The thief and the dancer , 2005
  • My father from Paris , novel, from Spanish by Stefanie Gerhold, Graf Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-86220-013-9
  • My friend Neruda , 2011
  • The days of the rainbow , 2013, novel from the Chilean Spanish by Stefanie Gerhold, Graf Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 3862200302

Fonts

  • The law of the clouds - About the pictures by Ingo Kühl / La ley de las nubes - Sobre las pinturas de Ingo Kühl. In: Landscapes at the end of the world - Painted by Ingo Kühl in Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego / Paisajes del fin del mundo - Cuadros de Ingo Kühl pintados en la Patagonia y Tierra del Fuego. Berlin 2006 and in: Ingo Kühl On the way into the unknown. P. 126–129, Kettler Kunst, Bönen 2007, ISBN 978-3-939825-32-6 .

Film adaptations

Literary template

  • 1980: The trace of the missing person - based on the story "The Search"
  • 1984: Small revolt (Pequeña revancha) - based on the story "The Essay"
  • 1986: In the desert
  • 1994: The Postman
  • 2013: No! , based on the unpublished play El plebiscito , written by Pedro Peirano

script

  • 1973: La Victoria
  • 1975: The country is quiet
  • 1978: I see this country from afar
  • 1980: The uprising (La insurrección)
  • 1983: With ardent patience (Ardiente paciencia) - also directing
  • 1984: Farewell in Berlin - also directing
  • 1986: When we lived together - also directing
  • 1987: The cyclist from San Cristóbal

Web links

Commons : Antonio Skármeta  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Integration means enduring being different". In: sueddeutsche.de. February 27, 2011, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ aphaia.de: Mitlesebuch 61 - Antonio Skármeta
  3. ^ Dataset from the German National Library
  4. ↑ on the campaign for the referendum in 1988 on the whereabouts of Augusto Pinochet
personal data
SURNAME Skármeta, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean writer
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Antofagasta