Biljana Srbljanović
Biljana Srbljanović (Биљана Србљановић; * 1970 in Stockholm , Sweden ) is a Serbian writer and dramaturge .
Life
Srbljanović is one of the most celebrated Serbian playwrights in recent years. The child of diplomats, she was born in Stockholm and later graduated from the Faculty of Drama and Art at the University of Belgrade . She has written several plays and some scripts for the Serbian sitcom series Open Door (Otvorena vrata) .
She became internationally known for her Belgrade war diary in 1999, which was created during the NATO war against Yugoslavia and was partly printed in Spiegel . Her plays have been translated into several European languages and performed in several theaters, including Germany, Austria, Serbia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Slovenia, the USA, Switzerland, the Netherlands and France. She has received several cultural prizes , including the Ernst Toller Prize in 1999 . In August 2006, a jury of critics from Theater heute magazine named Srbljanovic one of three “foreign playwrights of the year” for her work Locusts (Skakavci) .
Srbljanovic is considered a bitter critic of the former President Slobodan Milošević . In 2001 she was sued in Belgrade by the Bosnian-Serbian director Emir Kusturica for defamation after accusing him of having made the film Underground with the help of the Milošević regime and profiting from its proximity to the Milošević government. In May 2006, she took part in the controversy surrounding the cancellation of Peter Handke's play The Game of Questions or The Journey into the Sonorous Land from the Paris Comédie-Française program . She pointed out that Milošević's censorship was far worse than the supposed censorship that Handke experienced in France.
She is a niece of Radovan Karadžić , but has publicly distanced herself from him. She is married to Gabriel Keller, a former French ambassador to Serbia and Montenegro, and lives in France.
In April 2008, Srbljanović was nominated by the Liberal Democratic Party of Serbia as a candidate for Belgrade mayor.
Biljana Srbljanović is a signatory of the declaration published in 2017 on the common language of Croatians , Serbs , Bosniaks and Montenegrins .
Works
- Beogradska trilogija (Belgrade Trilogy) Translated from Serbian by Barbara Antkowiak , Verlag der Authors , Frankfurt am Main 1999, ISBN 3-88661-218-X .
- Porodične priče (family stories)
- Pad (The Fall)
- Supermarket
- America, drugi deo (America, second part)
- Skakavci (grasshoppers)
- Princip (this grave is too small for me)
- Barbelo - Of dogs and children
- Animal kingdom
literature
- Biljana Srbljanović , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/2008 from December 16, 2008, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Web links
- Literature by and about Biljana Srbljanović in the catalog of the German National Library
- Interview with Biljana Srbljanovic. In: Der Standard , June 5, 1999
- Standard column
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Toller Prize for Biljana Srbljanovic . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 30, 1999
- ^ Klaus Händl: Dramatist of the Year . In: Der Standard , August 31, 2006
- ↑ Kusturica protiv Srbljanović: Podzemlje na površini . Aimpress, September 21, 2001 (Serbian)
- ↑ Ce que signifie être ami de la Serbie, by Biljana Srbljanovic . In: Le Monde , May 25, 2006 (French)
- ↑ balkantimes.com
- ↑ Derk, Denis: Declaration on the common language of Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins is adopted . In: Večernji list . March 28, 2017, ISSN 0350-5006 , p. 6–7 ( vecernji.hr [accessed on May 9, 2019] Serbo-Croatian: Donosi se Deklaracija o zajedničkom jeziku Hrvata, Srba, Bošnjaka i Crnogoraca .). (Archived on WebCite ( Memento from May 23, 2017 on WebCite ))
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Srbljanović, Biljana |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Србљановић, Биљана (Serbian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Serbian writer and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm , Sweden |