Branislav Nušić

Branislav Nušić (1894)

Branislav Nušić ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бранислав Нушић ; born Alkibijad Nuša ; born October 8 ^{. Jul} / 20th October  1864 ^greg. In Belgrade ; † 19th January 1938 ) was a Serbian novelist , playwright, writer of satires and essays . He is the founder of modern rhetoric in Serbia. He also worked as a journalist and civil servant.

Life

Nušić came from a Wallachian family. At the age of 18 he changed his name to Branislav Nušić. He studied law in Belgrade and Graz. In 1885 he took part in the Serbian-Bulgarian war . Because of his poem Dva roba (Two slaves) published in 1887 , which satirically argued with King Milan I , he was sentenced to two years in prison, from which he was released after a year.

Nušić also used the literary pseudonym , Ben Akiba , especially for humorous feature articles for the Politika newspaper in the period before the First World War . He worked as a dramaturge and artistic director at theaters in Belgrade, Novi Sad , Skopje and Sarajevo .

In the early 1930s he was professor of rhetoric at the Royal Military Academy. In 1933 he was elected a full member of the Royal Serbian Academy .

Nušić was an author in whose works the comedy is a defining stylistic element.

Works

Comedies

• Narodni poslanik (The People's Representative), 1885
  • The MP: Play in 3 acts . Translated from Serbian by Ina Jun-Broda . Stage manuscript. Berlin: Henschelverlag, 1956
• Gospođa ministarka (The Minister's Wife), 1929
• Mister Dolar (Mister Dollar), 1932

Novels

• Opštinsko dete (community child ), 1902
• Autobiografija (autobiography), 1924

Other works

• Ramazanske večeri (Evenings in Ramadan , Collection of Short Stories), 1898
• Retorika (rhetoric), 1934

Total expenditure

• Sabrana Dela (Collected Works), ed. v. Ljubiša Manojlović, 25 volumes, 1966
• Dela Branislava Nušića (The Works of Branislav Nušić), ed. v. Vojislav Đurić, 10 volumes, 1978

German translations

• On a shoreless lake , 1903
• At a high price! A civil tragedy , translated and edited for the German stage. by Friedrich S. Krauss , 1904
• The Hajduken (Hajduci), 1965
• The mad Teofilo , 1985

The novel The Boy with 13 Fathers (1927) by Roda Roda is based on Nušić's novel Opštinsko dete .

literature

• Velibor Gligorić, Branislav Nušić , in: Enciklopedija Jugoslavije , 1st ed., Volume 6, 1965, pp. 322-324
• George Vid Tomashevich, Branislav Nušić , in: Dictionary of Literary Biography , Volume 147 ( South Slavic Writers before World War II ), 1995 ( ISBN 0-8103-5708-9 ), pp. 176-181
• Dragoljub Vlatković, Nušić, Branislav , in: Leksikon pisaca Jugoslavije , Volume 4, 1997, pp. 763-797
• Lexicon of World Literature, Foreign Language Authors LZ , 4th edition 2004 ( ISBN 3-520-83804-4 )

• Antun Barac , History of Yugoslav Literature from the Beginnings to the Present , 1977 pp. 228–231
• Strahinja K. Kostic, Branislav Nusic: The stage poet and his audience , in: Maske and Kothurn: International Contributions to Theater Studies ( ISSN  0025-4606 ), vol. 30.1984; Issue 1-2, pp. 145-151

Web links

• Literature by and about Branislav Nušić in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography , Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts